Bill Text: FL S0804 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Employee Organization Dues and Uniform Assessments

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-03-14 - Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability [S0804 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S0804-Introduced.html
       Florida Senate - 2020                                     SB 804
       
       
        
       By Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       
       24-00723B-20                                           2020804__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to employee organization dues and
    3         uniform assessments; amending s. 447.303, F.S.;
    4         revising the requirements for an employee to authorize
    5         the deduction and collection of dues and uniform
    6         assessments by an employer; revising when such
    7         deductions commence; providing requirements for forms
    8         that authorize such deductions; reenacting s.
    9         110.114(3), F.S., relating to employee wage
   10         deductions; providing an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   13  
   14         Section 1. Section 447.303, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   15  read:
   16         447.303 Dues; deduction and collection.—
   17         (1)An Any employee organization that which has been
   18  certified as a bargaining agent has shall have the right to have
   19  its dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the
   20  employer from the salaries of those employees who authorize the
   21  deduction of said dues and uniform assessments. The
   22  authorization must be on a form prescribed by the department,
   23  meet the requirements under subsection (2), be renewed on an
   24  annual basis, and However, such authorization is revocable at
   25  the employee’s request upon 30 days’ written notice to the
   26  employer and employee organization. Said deductions shall
   27  commence when the employer receives the signed authorization
   28  form from the bargaining agent and is able to confirm with the
   29  employee, electronically or by other means, that he or she
   30  authorized the deduction of dues and uniform assessments upon
   31  the bargaining agent’s written request to the employer.
   32  Reasonable costs to the employer of said deductions are shall be
   33  a proper subject of collective bargaining. Such right to
   34  deduction, unless revoked under pursuant to s. 447.507, is shall
   35  be in force as for so long as the employee organization remains
   36  the certified bargaining agent for the employees in the unit.
   37  The public employer is expressly prohibited from any involvement
   38  in the collection of fines, penalties, or special assessments.
   39         (2)The form required under subsection (1) must be signed
   40  by the employee and contain the following acknowledgment in bold
   41  letters and in at least a 14-point type:
   42  
   43         I acknowledge and understand that I have a First
   44         Amendment right, as recognized by the United States
   45         Supreme Court, to refuse to join or financially
   46         support a union, that union membership and payment of
   47         union dues and uniform assessments are voluntary, and
   48         that I may not be discriminated against in any manner
   49         should I refuse to join or financially support a
   50         union.
   51         Section 2. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
   52  made by this act to section 447.303, Florida Statutes, in a
   53  reference thereto, subsection (3) of section 110.114, Florida
   54  Statutes, is reenacted to read:
   55         110.114 Employee wage deductions.—
   56         (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and
   57  (2), the deduction of an employee’s membership dues deductions
   58  as defined in s. 447.203(15) for an employee organization as
   59  defined in s. 447.203(11) shall be authorized or permitted only
   60  for an organization that has been certified as the exclusive
   61  bargaining agent pursuant to chapter 447 for a unit of state
   62  employees in which the employee is included. Such deductions
   63  shall be subject to the provisions of s. 447.303.
   64         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.

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