Senate
File
2098
-
Introduced
SENATE
FILE
2098
BY
BOULTON
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
overtime
pay
earned
by
state
employees.
1
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
70A.1,
subsection
1,
Code
2024,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
1.
a.
Salaries
specifically
provided
for
in
an
3
appropriation
Act
of
the
general
assembly
shall
be
in
lieu
of
4
existing
statutory
salaries,
for
the
positions
provided
for
in
5
the
Act,
and
all
salaries,
including
longevity
where
applicable
6
by
express
provision
in
the
Code,
shall
be
paid
according
to
7
the
provisions
of
chapter
91A
and
shall
be
in
full
compensation
8
of
all
services,
including
any
service
on
committees,
boards,
9
commissions
or
similar
duty
for
Iowa
government,
except
for
10
members
of
the
general
assembly.
A
Except
as
provided
in
11
paragraph
“b”
,
a
state
employee
on
an
annual
salary
shall
not
12
be
paid
for
a
pay
period
an
amount
which
that
exceeds
the
13
employee’s
annual
salary
transposed
into
a
rate
applicable
to
14
the
pay
period
by
dividing
the
annual
salary
by
the
number
of
15
pay
periods
in
the
fiscal
year.
16
b.
A
state
employee
whose
annual
salary
is
under
one
hundred
17
twenty-five
thousand
dollars
and
who
is
not
covered
by
the
18
overtime
payment
provisions
of
the
federal
Fair
Labor
Standards
19
Act,
29
U.S.C.
§201
et
seq.,
shall
be
eligible
for
overtime
20
payment
at
the
rate
of
one
and
one-half
times
the
regular
rate
21
at
which
the
employee
is
employed,
as
though
such
employee
22
were
so
covered.
Salaries
for
state
employees
covered
by
the
23
overtime
payment
provisions
of
the
federal
Fair
Labor
Standards
24
Act
or
this
paragraph
shall
be
established
on
an
hourly
basis.
25
EXPLANATION
26
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
27
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
28
This
bill
provides
that
a
state
employee
whose
annual
salary
29
is
under
$125,000
and
who
is
not
covered
by
the
overtime
30
payment
provisions
of
the
federal
Fair
Labor
Standards
Act
31
shall
be
eligible
for
overtime
payment
at
the
rate
of
one
32
and
one-half
times
the
regular
rate
at
which
the
employee
33
is
employed,
as
though
such
employee
were
so
covered.
The
34
bill
provides
that
salaries
for
such
state
employees
shall
be
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on
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