H-8229

   Amend  the amendment, H-8225, to House File 2355, as follows:
   1.  By striking page 1, line 1, through page 5, line 29, and inserting: 
   <Amend House File 2355 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
<DIVISION I
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS

   Section 1.  Section 96.2, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   96.2  Guide for interpretation.
   1.  As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of this state is declared to be as follows:  Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of this state. Involuntary unemployment is therefore a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden which now so often falls with crushing force upon the unemployed worker and the worker’s family. The achievement of social security requires protection against this greatest hazard of our economic life. This can be provided by encouraging employers to provide more stable employment and by the systematic accumulation of funds during periods of employment to provide benefits for periods of unemployment, thus maintaining purchasing power and limiting the serious social consequences of poor relief assistance. The legislature, therefore, declares that in its considered judgment the public good and the general welfare of the citizens of this state require the enactment of this measure, under the police powers of the state, for the compulsory setting aside of unemployment reserves to be used for the benefit of persons unemployed through no fault of their own.
   2.  It is the finding of the legislature that true economic development can only be achieved when workers are given the respect they deserve. Economic development must include all residents of this state, including men and women, people of all gender identities, minorities, and immigrants. The legislature further finds that economic development should include but not be limited to residents of this state being paid a living wage, this state being a welcoming place for immigrants, child care and housing being readily affordable and available, and public workers having collective bargaining rights.
DIVISION II
MINIMUM WAGE

   Sec. 2.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  a.  (1)  The state hourly wage shall be at least $6.20 as of April 1, 2007, and $7.25 as of January 1, 2008 $8.20 as of July 1, 2022, $9.15 as of July 1, 2023, $10.10 as of January 1, 2024, $11.05 as of July 1, 2024, $12.00 as of January 1, 2025, $12.95 as of July 1, 2025, $13.90 as of January 1, 2026, and $15.00 as of July 1, 2026.
   (2)  The state hourly wage, including the state hourly wage for the first ninety calendar days of employment provided in paragraph “d”, shall be increased annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2027, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in federal social security benefits authorized during the previous state fiscal year by the federal social security administration pursuant to section 215 of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §415.
   b.  Every employer, as defined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended to January 1, 2007 July 1, 2022, shall pay to each of the employer’s employees, as defined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended to January 1, 2007 July 1, 2022, the state hourly wage stated in paragraph “a”, or the current federal minimum wage, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. §206, as amended, whichever is greater.
   c.  For purposes of determining whether an employee of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn, or cabin, who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty one hundred dollars a month in tips is receiving the minimum hourly wage rate prescribed by this section, the amount paid the employee by the employer shall be deemed to be increased on account of the tips by an amount determined by the employer, not to exceed forty percent of the applicable minimum wage. An employee may file a written appeal with the labor commissioner if the amount of tips received by the employee is less than the amount determined by the employer under this subsection.
   d.  An employer is not required to pay an employee the applicable state hourly wage provided in paragraph “a” until the employee has completed ninety calendar days of employment with the employer. An employee who has completed ninety calendar days of employment with the employer prior to April 1, 2007, or January 1, 2008, shall earn the applicable state hourly minimum wage as of that the date of completion. An employer shall pay an employee who has not completed ninety calendar days of employment with the employer an hourly wage of at least $5.30 as of April 1, 2007, and $6.35 as of January 1, 2008 $7.20 as of July 1, 2022, $8.05 as of July 1, 2023, $8.85 as of January 1, 2024, $9.70 as of July 1, 2024, $10.55 as of January 1, 2025, $11.40 as of July 1, 2025, $12.25 as of January 1, 2026, and $13.20 as of July 1, 2026.
   e.  A county or city may establish a minimum wage that exceeds the state hourly wage and the federal minimum wage.>
   2.  Title page, by striking line 1 and inserting <An Act relating to economic development including legislative findings and the state minimum wage.>>

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HUNTER of Polk