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Relating to certain employees of the department of corrections, including collective bargaining, health insurance for a surviving spouse and children of certain employees of the department, and certain operational and employment matters involving the department, and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 18, 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 Staff members at the Iowa Department of Corrections who work directly with inmates would now be classified as public safety employees for union negotiations. The state would also pay the full cost of health insurance for the surviving spouses and children of certain department employees. Additionally, the director must create training for self-defense and de-escalation, set up rules for paid leave after traumatic events, and ensure contract workers do not receive more pay or benefits than state employees doing similar work.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the department of corrections.3 is amended to designate nonsupervisory employees of the Iowa department of corrections with ongoing direct contact with inmates as public safety employees for the purposes of collective bargaining pursuant to Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act. employment. This provision applies to collective bargaining procedures pursuant to Code chapter initiated on or after the effective date of the bill.13D, providing for continuation of health insurance coverage for a surviving spouse and children of certain department of corrections employees, is amended to provide that the state shall be required to pay the full cost of the health insurance. Current law provides that the state shall not be required to pay for the cost of the health insurance.108, concerning duties of the director of the department of corrections, is amended.602, subsection 2. The bill also requires that the department of corrections shall not enter into an employment contract with a person to perform a function of the department that provides the contract employee with pay or benefits in excess of pay and benefits provided an employee of the state performing similar work.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 18, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
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