House File 76 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 76 BY ALONS , CHAMBERS , SODERBERG , DE BOEF , SWEENEY , WATTS , KOESTER , HAGENOW , HUSEMAN , LUKAN , DRAKE , RAYHONS , COWNIE , GRASSLEY , BYRNES , PAUSTIAN , PEARSON , MASSIE , BALTIMORE , HEIN , BRANDENBURG , DEYOE , HELLAND , UPMEYER , SCHULTE , J. TAYLOR , and PETTENGILL A BILL FOR An Act relating to state employee overtime pay. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 1121YH (8) 84 aw/rj

H.F. 76 Section 1. Section 8.6, subsection 9, paragraph i, Code 1 2011, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 2 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (07) The amount of overtime pay reported 3 by any agency or department under section 70A.1, subsection 8A, 4 for the last completed fiscal year. 5 Sec. 2. Section 70A.1, Code 2011, is amended by adding the 6 following new subsection: 7 NEW SUBSECTION . 8A. A state employer shall not permit 8 an employee eligible to receive payment for overtime work to 9 work hours that would allow the employee to accumulate annual 10 overtime pay greater than twenty-five percent of the employee’s 11 gross annualized salary. However, agency or department 12 directors may apply to the department of management to exceed 13 this limit. An agency or department may also exceed this 14 limit for overtime work related to a catastrophic or natural 15 disaster, other disaster, or emergency, but shall be required 16 to provide a report on the necessary overtime to the department 17 of management. 18 EXPLANATION 19 This bill provides a limitation on the amount of work hours 20 a state employee, covered by the overtime pay requirements of 21 the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, may work so that the 22 employee may only receive overtime pay up to 25 percent of the 23 employee’s gross annualized salary. 24 The bill allows for an agency or department to apply for a 25 waiver of this rule through the department of management. The 26 bill also allows for an agency or department to exceed this 27 cap in the event of a disaster or emergency, provided that 28 the agency or department report the necessary overtime to the 29 department of management. 30 The bill also requires that the department of management 31 include within its budget report a statement on any overtime 32 exceeding this cap as a result of either a waiver, disaster, 33 or emergency. 34 -1- LSB 1121YH (8) 84 aw/rj 1/ 1