Bill Text: OR HB3288 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 3288 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to payments made by teacher to school district for instructional purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3288 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3288-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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                         House Bill 3288

Sponsored by Representative CAMERON; Representatives FREEMAN,
  HANNA

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Requires union security agreement between school district and
exclusive representative of teachers employed by district to
allow payment by teacher of 25 percent of union dues, fees and
assessments paid by teacher to be paid to school district
employing teacher. Requires amount paid to be transferred to
school where teacher works for expenditure exclusively for
classroom instructional purposes.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to payments made by teacher to school district for
  instructional purposes; creating new provisions; and amending
  ORS 243.666.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 243.666 is amended to read:
  243.666. (1) { + (a) + } A labor organization certified by the
Employment Relations Board or recognized by the public employer
is the exclusive representative of the employees of a public
employer for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect
to employment relations.
   { +  (b) + }   { - Nevertheless - }  Any agreements entered
into involving union security including an all-union agreement or
agency shop agreement must { + :
  (A) + } Safeguard the rights of nonassociation of employees,
based on bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or
religious body of which such employee is a member. Such employee
shall pay an amount of money equivalent to regular union dues and
initiation fees and assessments, if any, to a nonreligious
charity or to another charitable organization mutually agreed
upon by the employee affected and the representative of the labor
organization to which such employee would otherwise be required
to pay dues.  The employee shall furnish written proof to the
employer of the employee that this has been done.
   { +  (B) If the agreement is between a school district and the
exclusive representative of teachers employed by the district,
allow a teacher subject to the agreement to pay to the school
district fund of the district that employs the teacher, in lieu
of paying to the exclusive representative to which dues are paid,
an amount of money equivalent to 25 percent of regular union dues
and initiation fees and assessments owed by the teacher. A school
district that receives a payment under this subparagraph shall
transfer the moneys received to the school in which the employee
making the payment works. Moneys received by the school under
this subparagraph may be expended only for classroom
instructional purposes. A teacher who makes a payment authorized
under this subparagraph shall furnish written proof to the
exclusive representative that the payment has been made. + }
  (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this
section, an individual employee or group of employees at any time
may present grievances to their employer and have such grievances
adjusted, without the intervention of the labor organization, if:
  (a) The adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of a
collective bargaining contract or agreement then in effect; and
  (b) The labor organization has been given opportunity to be
present at the adjustment.
  (3) Nothing in this section prevents a public employer from
recognizing a labor organization which represents at least a
majority of employees as the exclusive representative of the
employees of a public employer when the board has not designated
the appropriate bargaining unit or when the board has not
certified an exclusive representative in accordance with ORS
243.686.
  SECTION 2.  { + The amendments to ORS 243.666 by section 1 of
this 2013 Act apply to collective bargaining agreements entered
into on or after the effective date of this 2013 Act. + }
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