91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 101: Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $15.00 as of July 1, 2025. The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage for employees employed for less than days to $14.10 as of July 1, 2025. 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, 2026, 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.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 23, 2025

Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Molly Donahue (D) · molly.donahue@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Mark S. Lofgren (R) · mark.lofgren@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 0 against

For: AFSCME Council 61; Common Good Iowa; Des Moines Area Religious Council; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council

In plain words

January 22, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Workforce committee
January 23, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Driscoll, Donahue and Lofgren