Senate File 2034 SENATE FILE BY REHBERG, McKINLEY, HOSCH, BEHN, BOETTGER, ANGELO, MILLER, ZIEMAN, SCHUERER, VEENSTRA, WIECK, SEYMOUR, and KETTERING Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing an exemption to dues checkoff in the scope of 2 negotiations for school district and area education agency 3 teachers. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5534XS 80 6 kh/sh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 20.9, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1 2 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 The public employer and the employee organization shall 1 4 meet at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in 1 5 advance of the public employer's budget=making process, to 1 6 negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, 1 7 vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift 1 8 differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay, 1 9 seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health 1 10 and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for 1 11 staff reduction, in=service training and other matters 1 12 mutually agreed upon.NegotiationsExcept when the public 1 13 employees represented by a certified employee organization are 1 14 teachers licensed under chapter 272 and the public employer is 1 15 a school district or area education agency, negotiations shall 1 16 also include terms authorizing dues checkoff for members of 1 17 the employee organization and grievance procedures for 1 18 resolving any questions arising under the agreement, which 1 19 shall be embodied in a written agreement and signed by the 1 20 parties. If an agreement provides for dues checkoff, a 1 21 member's dues may be checked off only upon the member's 1 22 written request and the member may terminate the dues checkoff 1 23 at any time by giving thirty days' written notice. Such 1 24 obligation to negotiate in good faith does not compel either 1 25 party to agree to a proposal or make a concession. 1 26 EXPLANATION 1 27 This bill exempts teachers employed by school districts or 1 28 area education agencies from the authority to include terms 1 29 authorizing dues checkoff in the scope of negotiations 1 30 specified in Code chapter 20, governing public employee 1 31 collective bargaining. 1 32 LSB 5534XS 80 1 33 kh/sh/8 1 34 1 35