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Senate Amendment 5624

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 2414 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, line 4, by striking the word "is" and
  1  3 inserting the following:  "and low wages are".
  1  4    #2.  Page 1, line 6, by striking the words "is a
  1  5 barrier" and inserting the following:  "are barriers".
  1  6    #3.  Page 1, by inserting after line 15 the
  1  7 following:
  1  8    "The general assembly also finds that raising the
  1  9 minimum wage can serve as a valuable tool in the
  1 10 efforts to increase the size of the workforce in the
  1 11 state."
  1 12    #4.  Page 3, by inserting after line 10 the
  1 13 following:
  1 14    "Sec. ___.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, Code 1997,
  1 15 is amended to read as follows:
  1 16    1.  a.  The hourly wage stated in the federal
  1 17 minimum wage law, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. } 206, shall
  1 18 be increased to $3.85 on January 1 of 1990, $4.25 on
  1 19 January 1 of 1991, and $4.65 on January 1 of 1992.
  1 20    b. 1.  a.  Every employer, as defined in the
  1 21 federal Fair Labor Standards Act, shall pay to each of
  1 22 the employer's employees, as defined in the federal
  1 23 Fair Labor Standards Act, wages of not less than the
  1 24 current federal minimum wage, at a rate not less than
  1 25 fifty cents per hour greater than the prevailing
  1 26 federal Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wage pursuant
  1 27 to 29 U.S.C. } 206, or the wage rate stated in
  1 28 paragraph "a", whichever is greater.
  1 29    c. b.  For purposes of determining whether an
  1 30 employee of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn, or cabin,
  1 31 who customarily and regularly receives more than
  1 32 thirty dollars a month in tips is receiving the
  1 33 minimum hourly wage rate prescribed by this section,
  1 34 the amount paid the employee by the employer shall be
  1 35 deemed to be increased on account of the tips by an
  1 36 amount determined by the employer, not to exceed forty
  1 37 percent of the applicable minimum wage rate under
  1 38 paragraph "a".  An employee may file a written appeal
  1 39 with the labor commissioner if the amount of tips
  1 40 received by the employee is less than the amount
  1 41 determined by the employer under this subsection.
  1 42    d.  An employer is not required to pay an employee
  1 43 the applicable minimum wage provided in paragraph "a"
  1 44 until the employee has completed ninety calendar days
  1 45 of employment with the employer.  An employee who has
  1 46 completed ninety calendar days of employment with the
  1 47 employer prior to January 1 of 1990, 1991, or 1992,
  1 48 shall earn the applicable hourly minimum wage.  An
  1 49 employer shall pay an employee who has not completed
  1 50 ninety calendar days of employment with the employer
  2  1 an hourly wage of at least $3.35 as of January 1 of
  2  2 1990, $3.85 as of January 1 of 1991, and $4.25 as of
  2  3 January 1 of 1992."
  2  4    #5.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2  5 
  2  6 
  2  7                               
  2  8 DICK L. DEARDEN 
  2  9 MATT McCOY 
  2 10 MIKE CONNOLLY 
  2 11 BILL FINK 
  2 12 WILLIAM D. PALMER 
  2 13 PATRICK J. DELUHERY 
  2 14 MARY NEUHAUSER 
  2 15 PATTY JUDGE 
  2 16 MICHAEL E. GRONSTAL 
  2 17 DON GETTINGS 
  2 18 EUGENE S. FRAISE 
  2 19 TOM VILSACK 
  2 20 WALLY E. HORN 
  2 21 JOHNIE HAMMOND 
  2 22 PATRICIA HARPER 
  2 23 ROBERT E. DVORSKY 
  2 24 JOHN P. KIBBIE 
  2 25 SF 2414.201 77
  2 26 tm/jl/28
     

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