1 | State | Sponsored legislation | Legislation summary | Sponsors' partisan affiliation | Companion bill | Most recent committee assignment | Current status in legislative process | Current as of date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | New Jersey | A3686 | "The bill requires public employers to provide exclusive representative employee organizations with access to members of the negotiation units. ... The bill specifies that home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, employee negotiation units and groupings, and communications between employee organizations and their members, prospective members, and non-members, are not government records and are exempt from the disclosure requirements of P.L.1963, c.73." | Democratic | S2137 | Labor | Enacted | 5/18/2018 |
3 | Connecticut | HB05177 | This bill requires a public agency, upon receiving a permissible request for public employee personnel files, to first disclose the requested information to the person making the request and then to notify the employee concerned and the employee's collective bargaining agent. | N/A | N/A | Government Administration and Elections | Enacted | 5/24/2018 |
4 | Illinois | HB4742 | "Provides that a school district may not reduce the number of full-time staff members of a department as a result of hiring a substitute teacher recruiting firm. Provides that, in the event of a teacher's strike, a school district may not use a recruiting firm to hire a substitute teacher. Provides that the Chicago School District may contract with a substitute teacher recruiting firm under the program only if certain requirements are met. Provides that a substitute teacher recruiting firm may enter into an agreement with a labor organization that has a collective bargaining agreement with a school district. Effective immediately." | Bipartisan | N/A | Education | Enacted | 8/13/2018 |
5 | California | SB1085 | This bill would require public employers to grant leaves of absence without loss of pay or benefits to employees who serve as stewards or officers of an employee organization. | Democratic | N/A | Appropriations | Enacted | 9/28/2018 |
6 | Maryland | HB1017 | "Requiring the Department of Budget and Management, University System of Maryland system institutions, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College to provide certain information on certain employees to certain exclusive representatives within 30 days of a new employee's date of hire; requiring an exclusive representative to withhold certain communication with an employee on the written request of the employee with certain exceptions; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 4/7/2018 |
7 | Oklahoma | SB960 | "An Act relating to school employees; amending 70 O.S. 2011, Section 5-139, which relates to professional organization dues; requiring certain request to be written; prohibiting a school district policy or negotiated agreement from placing certain conditions to initiate or terminate certain payroll deduction; requiring a school district to reimburse certain deductions made after certain request; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency." | Republican | N/A | Common Education (House) | Enacted | 5/4/2018 |
8 | Maryland | SB819 | "Requiring certain public school employers to provide an exclusive representative with access to new employee processing; requiring that the structure, time, and manner of certain access be determined through certain negotiations; authorizing certain parties to request certain impasse proceedings under certain circumstances; requiring the public school employer to provide the exclusive representative with certain information within 30 days of the date of hire or by the first pay period after the date of hire; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Finance | Enacted | 4/8/2018 |
9 | Maryland | HB864 | "Prohibiting a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under certain provisions of law from expiring until it is succeeded by a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under certain provisions of law; requiring that the terms of a certain memorandum of understanding continue in force and effect until a certain memorandum of understanding is agreed to and ratified; authorizing an exclusive representative to file a certain action in a circuit court under certain circumstances; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 4/7/2018 |
10 | Maryland | SB677 | "Requiring the Department of Budget and Management, University System of Maryland system institutions, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College to provide certain information on certain employees to certain exclusive representatives within 30 days of a new employee's date of hire; requiring an exclusive representative to withhold certain communication with an employee under certain circumstances; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Appropriations (House) | Enacted | 4/13/2018 |
11 | Maryland | SB654 | "Prohibiting a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under certain provisions of law from expiring until it is succeeded by a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under a certain provision of the law; requiring that the terms of a certain memorandum of understanding continue in force and effect until a certain memorandum of understanding is agreed to and ratified; authorizing an exclusive representative to file a certain action in a circuit court under certain circumstances; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Appropriations (House) | Enacted | 4/8/2018 |
12 | Maryland | HB811 | "Requiring certain public school employers to provide an exclusive representative with access to new employee processing; requiring that the structure, time, and manner of certain access be determined through certain negotiations; authorizing certain parties to request certain impasse proceedings under certain circumstances; requiring the public school employer to provide the exclusive representative with certain information within 30 days of the date of hire or by the first pay period after the date of hire; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 4/7/2018 |
13 | Rhode Island | H7377 | This bill would authorize municipal police unions to refrain from representing employees in grievance/arbitration proceedings if those employees were not members of the collective bargaining unit within 90 days of the event precipitating grievance/arbitration proceedings. | Democratic | N/A | Labor (Senate) | Enacted | 7/5/2018 |
14 | Maryland | HB451 | "Clarifying that a member of the State Labor Relations Board or State Higher Education Labor Relations Board may petition the circuit court to order the State, a president, a system institution, or a person to comply with an order from the Board; establishing that the failure to meet an established negotiation deadline is an unfair labor practice under certain conditions; requiring a system institution in the University System of Maryland to designate a representative of the Board of Regents to participate in collective bargaining; etc." | Democratic | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 5/31/2018 |
15 | Rhode Island | S2158 | This bill would authorize municipal police unions to refrain from representing employees in grievance/arbitration proceedings if those employees were not members of the collective bargaining unit within 90 days of the event precipitating grievance/arbitration proceedings. | Democratic | N/A | Labor | Enacted | 7/2/2018 |
16 | Maryland | HB278 | "Requiring an employee organization certified as exclusive representative to disclose to certain employees all offers regarding wages made by the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County during certain negotiations; authorizing the parties to use a certain mediator-arbitrator panel in a collective bargaining impasse; requiring the mediator-arbitrator panel to first consider and give the highest priority to the ability of the Montgomery Commission to pay for certain expenses under certain circumstances; etc." | N/A | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 4/12/2018 |
17 | Maryland | HB284 | "Altering the period of time for which certain employees of the Office of the Sheriff of Cecil County are required to serve a probationary period; altering which deputy sheriffs in the Office have the right to organize and collectively bargain with the Sheriff and the Cecil County Executive with regard to certain wages, benefits, and working conditions; correcting certain references to the government of Cecil County and to a certain position in the Office; etc." | N/A | N/A | Finance (Senate) | Enacted | 5/17/2018 |
18 | Washington | HB2751 | "Upon written authorization of an employee within the bargaining unit and after certification or recognition of the union, the employer must deduct from the employee's payments the monthly amount of dues certified by the secretary of the union and must transmit the amounts to the treasurer of the union. If a collective bargaining agreement includes a union security provision, the employer must enforce the agreement by deducting from the payments to bargaining unit members the dues required for union membership, or for nonmembers, a fee equivalent to the dues." | Democratic | SB6296 | Labor and Workplace Standards | Enacted | 3/30/2018 |
19 | Hawaii | HB1725 | "Requires public employees in collective bargaining units to provide written notification to the exclusive representative to discontinue payroll assignments within a certain time period. Requires the exclusive representative to forward the notification to the employer within ten business days of receipt." | Democratic | SB2360 | Ways and Means (Senate) | Enacted | 4/26/2018 |
20 | Washington | SB6229 | "Requiring employers to provide exclusive bargaining representatives reasonable access to new employees for the purposes of presenting information about their exclusive bargaining representative." | Democratic | HB2624 | Rules | Enacted | 4/6/2018 |
21 | California | SB866 | This bill would extend public sector union provisions to employees of the Regents of the University of California, the Judicial Council, counties, cities, and public authorities, authorizing unions to request payroll deductions for employee fees and dues. | N/A | N/A | Budget (House) | Enacted | 7/2/2018 |
22 | California | SB846 | This bill would protect public employers from liability for any legal claims involving agency fees paid to unions prior to June 27, 2018. This bill would also deny standing to current or former employees pursuing such claims. The bill's provisions would apply to any pending litigation. | N/A | N/A | Assembly Budget | Enacted | 9/19/2018 |
23 | Missouri | HB1413 | This bill would disallow employee payroll deductions for union dues, agency shop fees, or other fees levied by a public labor union unless such deductions are authorized in writing by the employee on annual basis. | Republican | N/A | General Laws (Senate) | Enacted | 6/4/2018 |
24 | Maryland | SB73 | "Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs at the rank of captain and below and full-time correctional officers at the rank of captain and below in the Office of the Sheriff of Harford County have the right to organize and negotiate with the Harford County Executive and Harford County Sheriff with regard to certain wages and employee health care premium share; requiring the right to organize and negotiate to be conducted in accordance with certain provisions of the Harford County Code unless otherwise provided in the Act; etc." | Republican | N/A | Appropriations (House) | Enacted | 5/17/2018 |
25 | Washington | SB5969 | "Requires the office of financial management to maintain a web site that is accessible to the public of all agreements collectively bargained with state employees to facilitate public inspection of state collective bargaining agreements. Establishes a joint committee on employment relations for the purpose of consulting with the governor or the governor's designee and institutions of higher education on matters related to collective bargaining with state employees." | Bipartisan | N/A | No committee | Enacted | 4/6/2018 |
26 | Delaware | HB214 | "This bill amends merit compensation bargaining unit by allowing non-uniformed correctional employees, including correctional counselors, correctional administrative staff and similar occupations, to bargain over compensation. These correctional employees are presently the only correctional employees excluded from compensation bargaining." | Democratic | N/A | Labor (Senate) | Enacted | 3/28/2018 |
27 | California | SB550 | "This bill would authorize an employee organization to make an offer to settle a dispute alleging an employer’s failure to provide wages, benefits, or working conditions required by state law in accordance with specified procedural requirements and would require the employer, if the employer does not accept the offer and fails to obtain a more favorable judgment or award, to pay the employee organization’s attorney’s fees and expenses incurred after the offer was made, subject to specified exceptions." | Democratic | N/A | N/A | Enacted | 3/27/2018 |
28 | California | SB285 | "This bill would prohibit a public employer from deterring or discouraging public employees from becoming or remaining members of an employee organization. The bill would define a public employer for this purpose to include counties, cities, districts, the state, schools, transit districts, the University of California, and the California State University, among others. The bill would grant the Public Employment Relations Board jurisdiction over violations of its provisions." | Democratic | N/A | N/A | Enacted | 3/27/2018 |
29 | Iowa | HF291 | "This Act relates to employment matters involving public employee collective bargaining, educator employment, personnel records and settlement agreements, city civil service requirements, and health insurance. ... The division prohibits the state; a state agency; a regents institution; a board of directors of a school district, a community college, or an area education agency; a county board of supervisors; a governing body of a city; or any other public employer from authorizing or administering a deduction from the salaries or wages of its employees for membership dues to an employee organization." | N/A | SF213 | N/A | Enacted | 3/29/2018 |
30 | California | SB201 | "This bill would make student employees, whose employment is contingent upon their status as students, “employees” and “higher education employees” for purposes of the act. The act grants employees the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations and for the purpose of meeting and conferring with their employer. Under the act, all matters not within the scope of representation are reserved to the employer and are not subject to meeting and conferring." | Democratic | N/A | N/A | Enacted | 3/27/2018 |
31 | California | AB83 | "This bill would enact the Judicial Council Employer-Employee Relations Act, to provide Judicial Council employees, as defined, the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations, except for managerial, confidential, or supervisory employees, judicial officers, employees of the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, or the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, and employees in positions designated by the Judicial Council in its sole authority and discretion as excluded positions, as specified." | Democratic | N/A | N/A | Enacted | 3/27/2018 |