House File 101 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  STRUYK, HUSER, MERTZ, and
                                           RAYHONS


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning eligibility to participate in a sick leave
  2    conversion program by certain peace officers employed within
  3    the department of public safety.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1508YH 83
  6 ec/nh/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 70A.23, subsection 4, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    4.  Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the
  1  4 contrary, peace officers employed within the department of
  1  5 public safety and the department of natural resources that are
  1  6 not covered under a collective bargaining agreement shall have
  1  7 a sick leave conversion program extended to them that is
  1  8 equivalent to the sick leave conversion program negotiated
  1  9 under chapter 20 between the state and the state police
  1 10 officers council labor union for peace officers.  At a
  1 11 minimum, the sick leave conversion program negotiated under
  1 12 chapter 20 shall provide that a peace officer employed within
  1 13 the department of public safety who retires prior to attaining
  1 14 the age of fifty=five shall be entitled to participate in the
  1 15 program as if the peace officer retired at age fifty=five.  In
  1 16 addition, an employee of the department of public safety or
  1 17 the department of natural resources who has earned benefits of
  1 18 payment of premiums under a collective bargaining agreement
  1 19 and who becomes a manager or supervisor and is no longer
  1 20 covered by the agreement shall not lose the benefits of
  1 21 payment of premiums earned while covered by the agreement.
  1 22 The payment shall be calculated by multiplying the number of
  1 23 hours of accumulated, unused sick leave by the employee's
  1 24 hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill provides that the sick leave conversion program
  1 27 negotiated under Code chapter 20 between the state and the
  1 28 state police officers council labor union for peace officers
  1 29 shall provide that a peace officer employed with the
  1 30 department of public safety who retires before age 55 shall be
  1 31 entitled to participate in the program as if the peace officer
  1 32 retired at age 55.
  1 33 LSB 1508YH 83
  1 34 ec/nh/8