Text: HF00154 Text: HF00156 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. FINDINGS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. 1 2 1. The general assembly finds that: 1 3 a. Using the federal minimum wage of $5.15 as a guide, the 1 4 buying power of $5.15 is 19 percent below the 1979 level of 1 5 inflation in adjusted terms. 1 6 b. A minimum wage of $5.15 does not lift a family of three 1 7 out of poverty as set by the United States department of labor 1 8 in its 2000 poverty guidelines for the 48 contiguous states 1 9 and the District of Columbia at $14,150. 1 10 c. The intent of the minimum wage is to maintain a minimum 1 11 standard of living for workers in order to assure their 1 12 health, efficiency, and general well-being. 1 13 2. It is the purpose of this Act to raise the minimum wage 1 14 to reflect the lost purchasing power of the current minimum 1 15 wage due to inflation, and to thereafter raise the minimum 1 16 wage to reflect future lost purchasing power. 1 17 Sec. 2. Section 91D.1, Code 2001, is amended by striking 1 18 the section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 1 19 91D.1 STATE MINIMUM WAGE. 1 20 1. On January 1, 2002, every employer, as defined in the 1 21 federal Fair Labor Standards Act, shall pay to each of the 1 22 employer's employees, as defined in the federal Fair Labor 1 23 Standards Act, wages at an hourly rate equal to the greatest 1 24 of the following: 1 25 a. Six dollars and fifty cents. 1 26 b. An hourly wage, if annualized based on two thousand 1 27 eighty hours of work per year, equivalent to no less than one 1 28 hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level for a 1 29 family of one, as defined by the most recently revised poverty 1 30 income guidelines as published in the federal register by the 1 31 United States department of health and human services. 1 32 c. The current federal minimum wage pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 1 33 } 206. 1 34 2. On January 1, 2004, every employer, as defined in the 1 35 federal Fair Labor Standards Act, shall pay to each of the 2 1 employer's employees, as defined in the federal Fair Labor 2 2 Standards Act, wages at an hourly rate equal to the greater of 2 3 the following: 2 4 a. The amount calculated pursuant to subsection 3. 2 5 b. The current federal minimum wage pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 2 6 } 206. 2 7 3. Beginning September 30, 2003, and on each September 30 2 8 thereafter, the department of workforce development shall 2 9 calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to maintain employee 2 10 purchasing power by increasing the current year's minimum wage 2 11 rate by the rate of inflation. The adjusted minimum wage rate 2 12 shall be calculated to the nearest cent using the consumer 2 13 price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, or a 2 14 successor index, for the twelve months prior to each September 2 15 1 as calculated by the United States department of labor. 2 16 Each adjusted minimum wage rate calculated under this 2 17 subsection takes effect on the following January 1, except as 2 18 otherwise provided in subsection 2. 2 19 4. The labor commissioner shall adopt rules to implement 2 20 and administer this section. 2 21 5. This section shall be enforced pursuant to chapter 91A. 2 22 EXPLANATION 2 23 This bill establishes findings and a purpose for increasing 2 24 the state minimum wage, and sets the state minimum wage for 2 25 the period beginning January 1, 2002, at the greatest of 2 26 $6.50, the federal minimum wage, or an hourly wage level based 2 27 on 150 percent of the federal poverty level. For the calendar 2 28 year beginning January 1, 2004, and each January thereafter, 2 29 the bill sets the state minimum wage at the greater of the 2 30 federal minimum wage or an adjusted rate calculated by the 2 31 department of workforce development to the nearest cent using 2 32 the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical 2 33 workers. 2 34 The bill strikes wage provisions currently in Code that are 2 35 obsolete, that set forth a formula for determining whether an 3 1 employee of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn, or cabin, who 3 2 customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in 3 3 tips is receiving the minimum state or federal hourly wage 3 4 rate and which permits such an employee to file a written 3 5 appeal with the labor commissioner, a provision specifying a 3 6 training wage for employees with less than 90 calendar days of 3 7 employment with an employer, and a provision which adopted by 3 8 reference a United States Code provision that was repealed in 3 9 1989. 3 10 LSB 1568HH 79 3 11 kh/pj/5
Text: HF00154 Text: HF00156 Text: HF00100 - HF00199 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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