Republican lawmakers on a state House panel killed a measure that would have established a $10 per hour minimum wage in Louisiana and increased to $14 by 2028.
House Bill 374, sponsored by Rep. Ed Larvadain, D-Alexandria, failed to pass the House Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations in a 5-9 vote along party lines Wednesday.
The bill was just the latest attempt over the years that Louisiana lawmakers have rejected despite independent polls showing overwhelming support for a minimum wage increase from Democrat and Republican voters in the state.
Louisiana doesn’t have its own minimum wage in state law and instead falls back on the federal rate was last adjusted to $7.25 per hour back in 2009. Larvadain told the committee that 30 states, including Arkansas and Florida, have since established a minimum wage greater than the federal minimum.
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