Senate File 465 - Introduced



                                      SENATE FILE       
                                      BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

                                      (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1227)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to leaves of absence for service in elective
  2    office.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1921SV 82
  5 sc/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 55.1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    A person who is elected to a municipal, county, state, or
  1  4 federal office shall, upon written application to the employer
  1  5 of that person, be granted a leave of absence from regular
  1  6 employment to serve in that office except where prohibited by
  1  7 the federal law.  The leave of absence may be granted without
  1  8 pay and, except that if a salaried employee takes leave
  1  9 without pay from regular employment for a portion of a pay
  1 10 period, the employee's salaried compensation for that pay
  1 11 period shall be reduced by the ratio of the number of days of
  1 12 leave taken to the total number of days in the pay period.
  1 13 The leave of absence shall be granted without loss of net
  1 14 credited service and benefits earned.  This section shall not
  1 15 be construed to require an employer to pay pension, health or
  1 16 other benefits during the leave of absence to an employee
  1 17 taking a leave of absence under this section.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 55.1, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code 2007,
  1 19 is amended to read as follows:
  1 20    An employee shall not be prohibited from returning to
  1 21 regular employment before the period expires for which the
  1 22 leave of absence was granted.  This section applies only to
  1 23 employers which employ twenty or more full=time persons.  The
  1 24 leave of absence granted by this section need not exceed six
  1 25 years.  The leave of absence granted by this section does not
  1 26 apply to an elective office held by the employee prior to the
  1 27 election.
  1 28                           EXPLANATION
  1 29    Current law provides that a leave of absence granted to a
  1 30 person elected to a municipal, county, state, or federal
  1 31 office need not exceed six years.  This bill removes the
  1 32 six=year limitation.
  1 33    The bill also provides that if a salaried employee takes
  1 34 leave without pay to serve in elected office the salaried
  1 35 compensation for the pay period shall be reduced pro rata to
  2  1 the number of days taken.
  2  2 LSB 1921SV 82
  2  3 sc:nh/es/88