Bill Text: IA HF91 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the state minimum hourly wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-22 - Subcommittee reassigned: Upmeyer, Dolecheck and Hunter. H.J. 121. [HF91 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-HF91-Introduced.html
House File 91 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 91 BY HUNTER , STAED , STECKMAN , KACENA , BEARINGER , OLDSON , KURTZ , LENSING , and WESSEL-KROESCHELL A BILL FOR An Act relating to the state minimum hourly wage. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 1407YH (6) 88 je/rn
H.F. 91 Section 1. Section 91D.1, subsection 1, Code 2019, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. a. (1) The state hourly wage shall be at least $6.20 3 as of April 1, 2007, and $7.25 as of January 1, 2008 $8.20 as 4 of July 1, 2019, $9.15 as of July 1, 2020, $10.10 as of January 5 1, 2021, $11.05 as of July 1, 2021, and $12.00 as of January 1, 6 2022 . 7 (2) The state hourly wage, including the state hourly wage 8 for the first ninety calendar days of employment provided in 9 paragraph “d” , shall be increased annually on July 1, beginning 10 July 1, 2022, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living 11 increase in federal social security benefits authorized during 12 the previous state fiscal year by the federal social security 13 administration pursuant to section 215 of the federal Social 14 Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §415. 15 b. Every employer, as defined in the federal Fair Labor 16 Standards Act of 1938, as amended to January 1, 2007, shall pay 17 to each of the employer’s employees, as defined in the federal 18 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended to January 1, 19 2007, the state hourly wage stated in paragraph “a” , or the 20 current federal minimum wage, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. §206, as 21 amended, whichever is greater. 22 c. For purposes of determining whether an employee of a 23 restaurant, hotel, motel, inn, or cabin, who customarily and 24 regularly receives more than thirty sixty dollars a month in 25 tips is receiving the minimum hourly wage rate prescribed by 26 this section , the amount paid the employee by the employer 27 shall be deemed to be increased on account of the tips by an 28 amount determined by the employer, not to exceed forty percent 29 of the applicable minimum wage. An employee may file a written 30 appeal with the labor commissioner if the amount of tips 31 received by the employee is less than the amount determined by 32 the employer under this subsection . 33 d. An employer is not required to pay an employee the 34 applicable state hourly wage provided in paragraph “a” until the 35 -1- LSB 1407YH (6) 88 je/rn 1/ 3
H.F. 91 employee has completed ninety calendar days of employment with 1 the employer. An employee who has completed ninety calendar 2 days of employment with the employer prior to April 1, 2007, or 3 January 1, 2008, shall earn the applicable state hourly minimum 4 wage as of that the date of completion . An employer shall 5 pay an employee who has not completed ninety calendar days of 6 employment with the employer an hourly wage of at least $5.30 7 as of April 1, 2007, and $6.35 as of January 1, 2008 $7.20 as 8 of July 1, 2019, $8.05 as of July 1, 2020, $8.85 as of January 9 1, 2021, $9.70 as of July 1, 2021, and $10.55 as of January 1, 10 2022 . 11 e. A county or city may establish a minimum wage that 12 exceeds the state hourly wage and the federal minimum wage. 13 EXPLANATION 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 15 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 16 This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $8.20 as 17 of July 1, 2019, $9.15 as of July 1, 2020, $10.10 as of January 18 1, 2021, $11.05 as of July 1, 2021, and $12.00 as of January 19 1, 2022. The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage for 20 employees employed for less than 90 days to $7.20 as of July 1, 21 2019, $8.05 as of July 1, 2020, $8.85 as of January 1, 2021, 22 $9.70 as of July 1, 2021, and $10.55 as of January 1, 2022. 23 The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage, including 24 the minimum hourly wage established for employees employed for 25 less than 90 days, annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2022, 26 by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in social 27 security benefits effective as of the previous December, as 28 authorized by the federal social security administration. 29 The bill increases the dollar amount of monthly tips an 30 employee must receive in order to be subject to an alternative 31 minimum wage calculation for employees who receive tips from 32 $30 to $60. 33 The bill authorizes a county or city to establish a minimum 34 wage that exceeds the state hourly wage and the federal minimum 35 -2- LSB 1407YH (6) 88 je/rn 2/ 3
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