For the third year in a row, the California Senate is seeking to increase California’s minimum wage with automatic adjustments for inflation. Specifically, Senate Bill 3 proposes to raise minimum wage to $11 per hour on January 1, 2016, $13 per hour on January 1, 2017 and will automatically adjust thereafter commencing on January 1, 2019. The bill has already been approved by the senate and will now proceed to the State Assembly for review. Prior efforts to legislate automatic adjustments of the minimum wage have failed, although Assembly Bill 10 was signed into law after deletion of such a provision in 2013. AB 10 raised California’s minimum wage to the current is $9 per hour, which will increase to $10 per hour on January 1, 2016. Of course, that could change if SB 3 passes.