Text: H01155 Text: H01157 Text: H01100 - H01199 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 740 as follows: 1 2 #1. By striking page 128, line 34, through page 1 3 129, line 3, and inserting the following: "impact of 1 4 such workforce reduction on its employees. At a 1 5 minimum, such plan shall include all of the following: 1 6 a. Tuition reimbursement at any college, 1 7 vocational or technical school, or other similar 1 8 program in this state attended by the employee within 1 9 two years of the employee's severance, up to a total 1 10 of three thousand dollars. 1 11 b. Continuation of health or medical insurance 1 12 coverage at existing coverage and contribution levels 1 13 for the employee and eligible family members for a 1 14 period of eighteen months or until the employee 1 15 obtains health care coverage under another employee 1 16 health care coverage plan, whichever period is 1 17 shorter. 1 18 c. When appropriate, an early retirement program 1 19 may be offered to those employees affected by loss of 1 20 employment. Such program shall provide supplemental 1 21 payments of at least seven hundred twenty dollars per 1 22 month and continued health care coverage at applicable 1 23 rates in effect for active employees until age sixty- 1 24 two. 1 25 d. Lump sum severance payments based on years of 1 26 service and rates of pay in effect on the date of 1 27 separation. Such payments shall be at least ten 1 28 percent of the employee's base pay for employees with 1 29 one through five years of service; fifty percent of 1 30 base pay for employees with six through ten years of 1 31 service; and seventy-five percent of base pay for 1 32 employees with eleven or more years of service. 1 33 e. Subject to applicable federal or state law, 1 34 such plan shall provide that affected employees 1 35 receive a preference in employment selection for work 1 36 the employee is qualified to perform. 1 37 For the purpose of this section, the term "electric 1 38 utility" means the electric delivery service 1 39 operations in Iowa and the electric generating 1 40 operations and units located in Iowa of incumbent 1 41 providers other than consumer-owned utilities." 1 42 1 43 1 44 1 45 WISE of Lee 1 46 1 47 1 48 1 49 CHAPMAN of Linn 1 50 HF 740.701 78 2 1 mj/sc
Text: H01155 Text: H01157 Text: H01100 - H01199 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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