House Amendment 8518


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2770 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 3, by inserting after line 11 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  Section 15G.112, Code Supplement 2005,
     1  5 is amended by adding the following new subsection:
     1  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  1A.  If a project is located in
     1  7 any nonmetropolitan county or group of contiguous
     1  8 counties the majority of which includes
     1  9 nonmetropolitan counties, an applicant may qualify by
     1 10 meeting one of the following wage threshold
     1 11 requirements in lieu of the wage threshold requirement
     1 12 in subsection 1:
     1 13    a.  The average hourly wage of new jobs created
     1 14 must be equal to or greater than one hundred thirty
     1 15 percent of one of the following:
     1 16    (1)  For a single county, the average new hire
     1 17 hourly wage over a three calendar quarter period.
     1 18    (2)  For a region, the average of all contiguous
     1 19 counties average new hire hourly wage over a three
     1 20 calendar quarter period.
     1 21    b.  The average hourly wage, including benefits, of
     1 22 new jobs created must be equal to or greater than one
     1 23 hundred fifty percent of one of the following:
     1 24    (1)  For a single county, the average new hire
     1 25 hourly wage over a three calendar quarter period.
     1 26    (2)  For a region, the average of all contiguous
     1 27 counties average new hire hourly wage over a three
     1 28 calendar quarter period.
     1 29    For purposes of this subsection, the wage
     1 30 thresholds shall be determined by utilizing wage data
     1 31 available from the local employment dynamics program
     1 32 of the department of workforce development.  The
     1 33 method for calculating the wage threshold shall be
     1 34 based on local employment dynamics program data for
     1 35 all industry sectors and all public and private
     1 36 entities.
     1 37    For purposes of this subsection, "metropolitan
     1 38 county" means a county included in the standard
     1 39 metropolitan statistical areas as determined by the
     1 40 United States census bureau.>
     1 41 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 45 THOMAS of Clayton
     1 46 HF 2770.501 81
     1 47 tm/je/3942
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