Bringing attention to the minimum wage in Texas

By Ashley Peoples February 26, 2020 Texas has not raised its minimum wage in 10 years while 21 states raised theirs at the start of 2020. According to an article published on March 5, 2019 by The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), a preemption law over minimum wage was passed in Texas in 2003. This law mandates that a local government’s minimum wage cannot be over the federal minimum wage. “There has been a trend to implement these minimum wage preemption laws across the nation in the last few years,” according to the article. In the 86th Legislative Session, State Representative Ron Reynolds proposed bill HB194 which ...