Bill Text - SB417 (2020)

Relative to negotiations by individual public employee bargaining units.


Revision: Dec. 19, 2019, 9:48 a.m.

SB 417  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2904

04/08

 

SENATE BILL 417

 

AN ACT relative to negotiations by individual public employee bargaining units.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that an individual bargaining unit may negotiate wages, terms, and conditions specific to that bargaining unit and that an individual bargaining unit shall not be forced into impasse proceedings by the declaration of impasse by another bargaining unit.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2904

04/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to negotiations by individual public employee bargaining units.

 

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

 

1  Bargaining by State Employees.  Amend RSA 273-A:9, I to read as follows:

I.  All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting state employees in the classified system generally shall be negotiated by the state, represented by the governor as chief executive, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representatives of all interested bargaining units.  Negotiations regarding terms and conditions of employment unique to individual bargaining units shall be negotiated individually with the representatives of those units by the governor.  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit an individual bargaining unit from negotiating wages, terms, and conditions specific to that bargaining unit, nor shall any bargaining unit be forced into impasse proceedings due to the declaration of impasse by another bargaining unit.  

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