House File 111 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  JOCHUM


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to an increase in the state minimum wage.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 1654HH 81
  4 kh/cf/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  The hourly wage stated in the federal minimum wage law,
  1  4 pursuant to 29 U.S.C. } 206, shall be increased to $3.85 on
  1  5 January 1 of 1990, $4.25 on January 1 of 1991, and $4.65 on
  1  6 January 1 of 1992 a wage level, if annualized based on two
  1  7 thousand eighty hours of work per year, of no less than one
  1  8 hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level for a
  1  9 family of one as defined by the most recently revised poverty
  1 10 income guidelines as published in the federal register by the
  1 11 United States department of health and human services.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code
  1 13 2005, is amended by striking the paragraph.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15    This bill increases the state minimum wage to a wage level
  1 16 of no less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level for a
  1 17 family of one as defined by the most recently revised poverty
  1 18 income guidelines as published in the federal register by the
  1 19 United States department of health and human services.  The
  1 20 bill eliminates an exemption to the state minimum wage law
  1 21 that permits an employer to pay an employee who has not
  1 22 completed 90 calendar days of employment with the employer a
  1 23 minimum wage of $4.25.
  1 24 LSB 1654HH 81
  1 25 kh:rj/cf/24.1