SF2031 • 2026

A bill for an act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisions.

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Sponsor: McCLINTOCK
Last action: 2026-01-14
Official status: Subcommittee: Driscoll, Taylor, and Townsend. S.J. 90 .
Effective date: Not listed

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A bill for an act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisions.

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A bill for an act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisions.

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Bill History

2026-01-14 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Taylor, and Townsend. S.J. 90 .
2026-01-12 Iowa Legislature
Introduced, referred to Workforce. S.J. 39 .

Official Summary Text

A bill for an act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisions.

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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:

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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.

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