Senate Study Bill 1309 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON CONNOLLY)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning assessments for funding of municipal utility
  2    retirement systems.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2828XC 82
  5 ec/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 412.2, subsection 1, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  From the proceeds of the assessments on the wages and
  1  4 salaries of employees, of any such waterworks system, or other
  1  5 municipally owned and operated public utility, eligible to
  1  6 receive the benefits thereof.  However, notwithstanding any
  1  7 provision of law to the contrary, if employees are represented
  1  8 by a labor organization, the employer shall not make a
  1  9 unilateral assessment on the wages and salaries of employees
  1 10 without first bargaining to impasse.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill concerns the funding of municipal utility
  1 13 retirement systems from assessments on the wages and salaries
  1 14 of employees.  The bill provides that if the employees are
  1 15 represented by a labor organization, the employer shall not
  1 16 make a unilateral assessment on wages without first bargaining
  1 17 to impasse.
  1 18 LSB 2828XC 82
  1 19 ec:rj/es/88