Move essentially kills minimum-wage bill
Using a parliamentary maneuver, the House of Delegates yesterday essentially killed a proposal to raise the state's minimum wage.
Colgan's legislation - one of several bills introduced this year to increase the wage - sought to boost minimum pay from $5.15 to $6.50 an hour.
House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, said the bill should go to appropriations because it would have a $5 million fiscal impact on the state.