Senate File 2031 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2031 BY McCLINTOCK A BILL FOR An Act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages 1 in public employee collective bargaining and including 2 effective date and applicability provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5370XS (3) 91 je/js

S.F. 2031 Section 1. Section 20.22, subsection 10, paragraph b, 1 subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (a), Code 2026, is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 (a) Three Five percent. 4 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 5 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 6 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to collective 7 bargaining procedures pursuant to chapter 20 initiated on or 8 after the effective date of this Act. 9 EXPLANATION 10 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 11 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 12 Under current law, in an arbitration involving a public 13 employee collective bargaining unit that does not have at 14 least 30 percent of members who are public safety employees, 15 the arbitrator’s award regarding any increase in base wages 16 shall not exceed the lesser of two percentages in any one-year 17 period in the duration of the bargaining agreement. One of the 18 specified percentages is 3 percent. This bill increases the 19 percentage to 5 percent. 20 The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to 21 collective bargaining procedures pursuant to Code chapter 20 22 initiated on or after the effective date of the bill. 23 -1- LSB 5370XS (3) 91 je/js 1/ 1