Bill Text: NH HB1570 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-03-07 - House Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 21, PG.1315 [HB1570 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1570-Introduced.html

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HB 1570 – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1570

AN ACT relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.

SPONSORS: Rep. Ward, Rock 13; Rep. Simmons, Hills 17; Rep. Munck, Straf 2; Rep. W. Smith, Rock 18

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that no public employee labor organization shall be required to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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

AN ACT relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.

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

1 New Paragraph; Obligation to Bargain. Amend RSA 273-A:3 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. The employee organization certified by the board as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit shall not be required to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. A collective bargaining agreement reached under this chapter shall apply only to public employees in the bargaining unit who are members of, or who elect to pay dues or fees to, the employee organization.

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