Senate File 419
SENATE FILE
BY DEARDEN, RAGAN, DVORSKY, LUNDBY,
FRAISE, McCOY, SENG, DOTZLER,
KIBBIE, BOLKCOM, GRONSTAL,
STEWART, QUIRMBACH, BEALL,
KREIMAN, and HOLVECK
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act increasing the state's minimum hourly wage rate at a rate
2 above the federal minimum hourly wage rate.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
1 2 2003, is amended by striking the paragraph.
1 3 Sec. 2. Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraphs b and d,
1 4 Code 2003, are amended to read as follows:
1 5 b. Every employer, as defined in the federal Fair Labor
1 6 Standards Act, shall pay to each of the employer's employees,
1 7 as defined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, wages of
1 8 not less than one dollar more per hour than the current
1 9 federal minimum wage, pursuant to specified in 29 U.S.C. }
1 10 206, or the wage rate stated in paragraph "a", whichever is
1 11 greater.
1 12 d. An employer is not required to pay an employee the
1 13 applicable minimum wage provided in paragraph "a" "b" until
1 14 the employee has completed ninety calendar days of employment
1 15 with the employer. An employee who has completed ninety
1 16 calendar days of employment with the employer prior to January
1 17 1 of 1990, 1991, or 1992, shall earn the applicable hourly
1 18 minimum wage. An employer shall pay an employee who has not
1 19 completed ninety calendar days of employment with the employer
1 20 an hourly wage of at least $3.35 as of January 1 of 1990,
1 21 $3.85 as of January 1 of 1991, and $4.25 as of January 1 of
1 22 1992 fifty cents more per hour than the current federal
1 23 minimum wage specified in 29 U.S.C. } 206.
1 24 EXPLANATION
1 25 This bill provides that the state's hourly minimum wage
1 26 rate will always be $1 more than the generally applicable
1 27 current federal minimum wage rate; and 50 cents more than the
1 28 current federal minimum wage rate for an employee who has
1 29 worked for an employer for less than 90 days.
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