Bill Text: IA HF2052 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning veterans eligible to take holiday time off for Veterans Day.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - Introduced, referred to Veterans Affairs. H.J. 81. [HF2052 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF2052-Introduced.html
House File 2052 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY KRESSIG, McCONKEY, MEYER, BAXTER, OURTH, SALMON, BROWN=POWERS, RUFF, DUNKEL, and BEARINGER A BILL FOR 1 An Act concerning veterans eligible to take holiday time off 2 for Veterans Day. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5081HH (3) 86 ec/nh PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 91A.5A, subsection 1, Code 2016, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. An employer shall provide each employee who isaan 1 4 eligible veteran, as defined in section 35.1,with holiday 1 5 time off for Veterans Day, November 11, if the employee would 1 6 otherwise be required to work on that day, as provided in this 1 7 section. For purposes of this section, "eligible veteran" means 1 8 a veteran, as defined in section 35.1, and a former member of 1 9 the reserve forces of the United States who served at least 1 10 four years in the reserve forces and who was discharged under 1 11 honorable conditions. 1 12 EXPLANATION 1 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 14 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 15 This bill provides that a former member of the United 1 16 States reserve forces who served at least four years and who 1 17 was discharged under honorable conditions is eligible to take 1 18 holiday time off for Veterans Day as provided in Code section 1 19 91A.5A. LSB 5081HH (3) 86 ec/nh