Senate File 120 - Introduced



                                  SENATE FILE       
                                  BY  BOLKCOM, WOOD, SCHOENJAHN,
                                      COURTNEY, BLACK, KIBBIE,
                                      QUIRMBACH, CONNOLLY, STEWART,
                                      FRAISE, HATCH, KREIMAN, RAGAN,
                                      DVORSKY, DOTZLER, HORN, SENG,
                                      and DEARDEN


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act increasing the state's minimum hourly wage rate at a rate
  2    above the federal minimum hourly wage rate.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2164SS 81
  5 kh/sh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2005, is amended by striking the paragraph.
  1  3    Sec. 2.  Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraphs b and d,
  1  4 Code 2005, are amended to read as follows:
  1  5    b.  Every employer, as defined in the federal Fair Labor
  1  6 Standards Act, shall pay to each of the employer's employees,
  1  7 as defined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, wages of
  1  8 not less than one dollar more per hour than the current
  1  9 federal minimum wage, pursuant to specified in 29 U.S.C. }
  1 10 206, or the wage rate stated in paragraph "a", whichever is
  1 11 greater.
  1 12    d.  An employer is not required to pay an employee the
  1 13 applicable minimum wage provided in paragraph "a" "b" until
  1 14 the employee has completed ninety calendar days of employment
  1 15 with the employer.  An employee who has completed ninety
  1 16 calendar days of employment with the employer prior to January
  1 17 1 of 1990, 1991, or 1992, shall earn the applicable hourly
  1 18 minimum wage.  An employer shall pay an employee who has not
  1 19 completed ninety calendar days of employment with the employer
  1 20 an hourly wage of at least $3.35 as of January 1 of 1990,
  1 21 $3.85 as of January 1 of 1991, and $4.25 as of January 1 of
  1 22 1992 fifty cents more per hour than the current federal
  1 23 minimum wage specified in 29 U.S.C. } 206.
  1 24                           EXPLANATION
  1 25    This bill provides that the state's hourly minimum wage
  1 26 rate will always be $1 more than the generally applicable
  1 27 current federal minimum wage rate; and 50 cents more than the
  1 28 current federal minimum wage rate for an employee who has
  1 29 worked for an employer for less than 90 days.
  1 30 LSB 2164SS 81
  1 31 kh:rj/sh/8