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A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
DOTZLER, DONAHUE, WINCKLER, CELSI, BLAKE, BISIGNANO, TOWNSEND, STAED, QUIRMBACH, PETERSEN, TRONE GARRIOTT and BENNETT
Last action
2025-02-19
Official status
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Lofgren, and Townsend. S.J. 315 .
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

What This Bill Does

  • A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-19 Iowa Legislature

    Subcommittee: Driscoll, Lofgren, and Townsend. S.J. 315 .

  2. 2025-02-18 Iowa Legislature

    Introduced, referred to Workforce. S.J. 296 .

Official Summary Text

A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.

Current Bill Text

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Senate

File

355

-

Introduced

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.

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

2025,

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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established

on

an

hourly

basis.

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