SB398: relative to employment negotiations between the state and individual bargaining units.

SB 398 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2822

06/05

SENATE BILL 398

AN ACT relative to employment negotiations between the state and individual bargaining units.

SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the state to negotiate terms and conditions of employment and all cost items with each bargaining unit individually and separately.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2822

06/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to employment negotiations between the state and individual bargaining units.

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

1 Bargaining by State Employees. Amend RSA 273-A:9, I to read as follows:

I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting state employees in the classified system generally shall be negotiated by the state, represented by the governor as chief executive[, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representatives of all interested bargaining units] and each bargaining unit individually and separately. Negotiations regarding terms and conditions of employment unique to individual bargaining units shall be negotiated individually with the representatives of those units by the governor.

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