Bill Text - SB18 (2019)

Relative to authorized employee wage deductions.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 10:54 a.m.

SB 18 - FINAL VERSION

 

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2019 SESSION

19-1009

04/06

 

SENATE BILL 18

 

AN ACT relative to authorized employee wage deductions.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows a public employee to specify voluntary deductions from wages for any insurance or employee benefit.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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04/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to authorized employee wage deductions.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Subparagraph; Payment of Wages; Voluntary Deductions.  Amend RSA 275:48, I by inserting after subparagraph (d)(6) the following new subparagraph:

(7)  Voluntary deductions designated in writing by a state, county, municipal, or other public employee to the public employer for any insurance or employee benefit offered in conjunction with the employee's membership in an employee organization recognized by the employer or designated by the collective bargaining agreement, provided that the employee may rescind the authorization for such deductions by giving the public employer 30 days written notice.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

VETOED July 10, 2019

Veto Sustained September 19, 2019