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

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2026
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2026
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. 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

This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $15.00 as of July 1, 2026. The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage for employees employed for less than days to $14.10 as of July 1, 2026. 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, 2027, 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.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named January 14, 2026. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Dawn Driscoll REmail
• Sen. Molly Donahue DEmail
• Sen. Mike Pike REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§91D.1

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title; check the text to be sure it’s the same idea.

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 title
  Cleared committee
• HF 2076 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…
  88th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 2075 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…
  88th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 247 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…
  88th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

• SF 101 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…
  91st General Assembly · In committee
  Nearly identical
• HF 283 Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the sam…
  91st General Assembly · In committee
  Nearly identical

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.