HF 520: Designating correctional officers as public safety employees for purposes of the public employment relations Act and including applicability provisions

What it does

This bill designates correctional officers employed by the Iowa department of corrections as public safety employees for the purposes of Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act. Code chapter and Code chapter 400 include collective bargaining procedures specifically applicable to public safety employees that are not applicable to other public employees, including procedures relating to the scope of collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration procedures, and certain matters relating to city civil service employment. The bill applies to collective bargaining procedures pursuant to Code chapter initiated on or after the effective date of the bill.

In plain words

1. March 1, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Public Safety committee