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Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits
Sponsored by Rep. Jerome Amos Jr. (D), Rep. Sean Bagniewski (D), Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D), Rep. Jeff Cooling (D), Rep. Ken Croken (D), Rep. Tracy A. Ehlert (D), Rep. Ruth Ann Gaines (D), Rep. Eric J. Gjerde (D), Rep. Daniel Gosa (D), Rep. David Jacoby (D), Rep. Lindsay James (D), Rep. Rob Johnson (D), Rep. Bob Kressig (D), Rep. Monica Kurth (D), Rep. Elinor A. Levin (D), Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D), Rep. Heather Matson (D), Rep. Brian Meyer (D), Rep. Rick L. Olson (D), Rep. Angel Ramirez (D), Rep. Dr. Megan L. Srinivas (D), Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D), Rep. Aime Wichtendahl (D), Rep. Ross Wilburn (D), Rep. Elizabeth Wilson (D)
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2026
- Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
- Done: House committeeMarch 31, 2026
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
00 as of July 1, 2028.10 as of July 1, 2028. The bill also increases the state minimum hourly wage, including the minimum hourly wage established for employees employed for less than days, annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2029, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase, if any, in social security benefits effective as of the previous December, as authorized by the federal social security administration. In no case shall the state hourly wage be decreased. The bill strikes a provision permitting the amount paid to an employee of a restaurant, hotel, motel, inn, or cabin, who customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips, to be deemed to be increased by a specified amount for purposes of determining whether the employee is receiving the state minimum hourly wage.
Read the full explanation
The bill authorizes a county or city to establish a minimum wage that exceeds the state hourly wage and the federal minimum wage.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§91D.1
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Lobbying
7 for · 1 against · 0 undecided · Who →
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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- SF 235 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2076 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2075 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 247 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HF 283 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…91st General Assembly · In committeeVery similar
Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.