Bill Text: IA SF37 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to public employers providing office space to employee organizations and making penalties applicable.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-18 - Subcommittee: Brown, Boulton, and Chapman. S.J. 98. [SF37 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF37-Introduced.html

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Senate File 37 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  ZAUN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to public employers providing office space to
  2    employee organizations and making penalties applicable.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 20.10, subsection 2, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  i.  Violate section 20.26A.
  1  4    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  20.26A  Employee organizations ====
  1  5 office space.
  1  6    A public employer shall not provide an employee organization
  1  7 with office space under the control of the public employer
  1  8 at a cost that is less than the market value of a lease for
  1  9 comparable office space.
  1 10                           EXPLANATION
  1 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 12 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 13    This bill prohibits a public employer from providing office
  1 14 space to an employee organization at a rate less than market
  1 15 value. The bill provides that a violation of the prohibition
  1 16 is a prohibited practice under Code chapter 20 and subject
  1 17 to the remedies provided in Code chapter 20 for prohibited
  1 18 practices.
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