The D.C. Council voted on changes to Initiative 82, a controversial piece of legislation that changed how tipped workers were paid.The council vote took time, as members were embroiled in other debates.

The reopened conversation about I-82 comes after the Council voted in June to pause the pay bump — from $10 to $12 per hour — until October, which was prompted by a push from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in her original budget proposal to repeal I-82. Bowser’s proposal sought to eliminate I-82 and revert the tipped minimum wage to $5.95.

DC’s tipped wage will not be phased out by 2027 as scheduled. Instead, the DC Council voted 7 to 5 today to partially repeal Initiative 82, slowing down increases in the tipped wage and ultimately capping it at 75 percent of the full minimum wage from 2034 on.