HOUSE FILE 130

BY  HUNTER

A BILL FOR

An Act to increase the state minimum hourly wage and to provide subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  The state hourly wage shall be at least$6.20 as of April 1, 2007, and $7.25 as of January 1, 2008, $7.50 as of January 1, 2012, and $8.00 as of July 1, 2012.  The state hourly wage, including the state hourly wage for the first ninety calendar days of employment provided in paragraph “d”, shall be increased annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2013, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in federal social security benefits authorized during the previous state fiscal year by the federal social security administration pursuant to section 215 of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 415.
EXPLANATION
   This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $7.50 as of January 1, 2012, and $8.00 as of July 1, 2012. The bill also increases the state minimum hourly wage, including the minimum hourly wage established for employees employed for less than 90 days, annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2013, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in social security benefits effective as of the previous December, as authorized by the federal social security administration.