SF 355 (LSB 1700XS (3) 91)

SENATE FILE 355

BY  DOTZLER, DONAHUE, WINCKLER, CELSI, BLAKE, BISIGNANO, TOWNSEND, STAED, QUIRMBACH, PETERSEN, TRONE GARRIOTT, and BENNETT

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 70A.1, subsection 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  a.  Salaries specifically provided for in an appropriation Act of the general assembly shall be in lieu of existing statutory salaries, for the positions provided for in the Act, and all salaries, including longevity where applicable by express provision in the Code, shall be paid according to the provisions of chapter 91A and shall be in full compensation of all services, including any service on committees, boards, commissions or similar duty for Iowa government, except for members of the general assembly. A Except as provided in paragraph “b”, a state employee on an annual salary shall not be paid for a pay period an amount which that exceeds the employee’s annual salary transposed into a rate applicable to the pay period by dividing the annual salary by the number of pay periods in the fiscal year.
   b.  A state employee whose annual salary is under one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars and who is not covered by the overtime payment provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §201 et seq., shall be eligible for overtime payment at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, as though such employee were so covered.  Salaries for state employees covered by the overtime payment provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or this paragraph shall be established on an hourly basis.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that a state employee whose annual salary is under $125,000 and who is not covered by the overtime payment provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act shall be eligible for overtime payment at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, as though such employee were so covered. The bill provides that salaries for such state employees shall be established on an hourly basis.