SB 441 – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
09/10
SENATE BILL 441
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill authorizes the chief justice of the supreme court to request that the governor appoint a representative from the judicial branch to the state’s negotiating team.
This bill was requested by the supreme court.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2826
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to collective bargaining by judicial employees.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Bargaining by Judicial Employees. Amend RSA 273-A:9-a, I to read as follows:
I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting judicial employees generally shall be negotiated by the unified court system, represented by the chief justice of the supreme court with the advice and consent of the judicial branch administrative council appointed pursuant to supreme court rule 54, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representatives of all interested bargaining units. The chief justice may request the governor to appoint a representative from the judicial branch to the state’s negotiating team established pursuant to RSA 273-A:9. Negotiations regarding terms and conditions of employment unique to individual bargaining units shall be negotiated individually with the representatives of those units by the chief justice and the administrative council.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008.