Bill Text: NH HB1290 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to voting by a public employee organization.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Introduced 06/16/2020, and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020; Senate Journal 8 [HB1290 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1290-Amended.html
HB 1290-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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HOUSE BILL 1290-FN
AN ACT relative to voting by a public employee organization.
SPONSORS: Rep. Read, Rock. 17; Rep. King, Hills. 33; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13; Rep. Gay, Rock. 8; Rep. Kenney, Straf. 6; Rep. Buchanan, Merr. 15; Rep. Schuett, Merr. 20; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill allows an employee organization to conduct an election by mail ballot.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to voting by a public employee organization.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Public Employee Labor Relations; Elections. Amend RSA 273-A:10 by inserting after paragraph IX the following new paragraph:
X. An employee organization may elect to have all votes cast by mail ballot in any election ordered by the board under this chapter. The employee organization shall provide notice of this election in a filing to the board submitted at least 24 hours prior to the board's pre-election conference.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
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HB 1290-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to public employee labor relations and collective bargaining.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
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STATE: | FY 2020 | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 |
Appropriation | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Expenditures | $0 | Indeterminable Increase | Indeterminable Increase | Indeterminable Increase |
Funding Source: | [ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ ] Other | |||
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METHODOLOGY:
This bill requires the Public Employees Labor Relations Board (PELRB) to allow an employee to vote by mail on certifying or decertifying the organization as the exclusive bargaining unit. The PELRB conducts bargaining unit representation elections. The elections are conducted on site at the workplace. Mail ballot elections are currently permitted if the eligible voters are dispersed across the State and in situations where there are multiple work sites or no central work site. The PELRB follows administrative rule Pub 303.13 in determining whether employees are eligible to vote by absentee ballot. This bill states the PELRB shall, at the employee's request, allow the employee to vote by mail. The PELRB indicates the fiscal impact of the bill would depend on the actual rate at which eligible voters request a mail ballot. The PELRB assumes additional expenditures would be in the form of administrative costs, supplies and postage, However, the amount cannot be determined based on information presently available.
It is assumed this bill will not be effective until FY 2021.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Public Employee Labor Relations Board
