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Designating individuals who perform work on electric utility lines as public safety employees for purposes of public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Workers who install or maintain electric utility lines would now be considered public safety employees. This change gives these workers different rules for negotiating their contracts and settling disputes with their employers.1
Read the official explanation
This bill designates individuals employed for the purpose of performing installation, maintenance, or other work on electric utility lines as public safety employees for the purposes of collective bargaining pursuant to 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.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 8, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
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