A measure in the Colorado legislature that would have let cities and counties set minimum wages above statewide levels has died in the state Senate’s “kill committee.”

The Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports that Democrat-backed House Bill 1368, which passed in the House 36-29 in late April, was blocked in the Republican-controlled Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee by a 3-2 party-line vote Thursday.

The statewide minimum wage currently is set at $10.20 an hour under a constitutional amendment and will rise to $12 an hour in 2020. Bill supporters wanted expensive-to-live-in places like Denver to be able to set a higher minimum to help struggling low-paid workers.

But Tony Gagliardi, head of Colorado’s branch of the National Federation of Business, argued that having different minimum wage levels in different parts of the state would be an administrative nightmare for business with multiple locations.

HB 1368 was sponsored by Reps. Jessie Danielson of Wheat Ridge and Jovan Melton of Aurora.

Two other wage-related measures, also backed by Democrats and opposed by Republicans, died last week in the House kill committee: