House File 11 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY HUNTER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act to increase the state minimum hourly wage by the same 2 percentage as the increase in federal social security 3 benefits. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1621HH 83 6 kh/rj/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 91D.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 1 2 2009, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 a. The state hourly wage shall be at least $6.20 as of 1 4 April 1, 2007, and $7.25 as of January 1, 2008. The state 1 5 hourly wage, including the state hourly wage for the first 1 6 ninety calendar days of employment provided in paragraph "d", 1 7 shall be increased annually on July 1 by the same percentage 1 8 as the cost=of=living increase in federal social security 1 9 benefits authorized in the previous fiscal year by the federal 1 10 social security administration pursuant to section 215 of the 1 11 federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. } 415. 1 12 EXPLANATION 1 13 This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage, 1 14 including the minimum hourly wage established for employees 1 15 employed for less than 90 days, annually on July 1 by the same 1 16 percentage as the cost=of=living increase in social security 1 17 benefits authorized in the previous fiscal year by the federal 1 18 social security administration. 1 19 LSB 1621HH 83 1 20 kh/rj/5