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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 313 as follows: 1 2 #1. By striking everything after the enacting 1 3 clause and inserting the following: 1 4 "Section 1. Section 20.6, subsection 2, Code 2003, 1 5 is amended to read as follows: 1 6 2. Collect, for public employers other than the 1 7 state and its boards, commissions, departments, and 1 8 agencies, data and conduct studies relating to total 1 9 compensation, including wages, hours, benefits and 1 10 other terms and conditions of public employment and 1 11 make the same available to any interested person or 1 12 organization. 1 13 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 20.16A BARGAINING FACTORS. 1 14 The public employer and the certified employee 1 15 organization shall consider, in addition to any other 1 16 relevant factors, the following bargaining factors in 1 17 negotiating a collective bargaining agreement under 1 18 this chapter: 1 19 1. Past collective bargaining contracts between 1 20 the parties including the bargaining that led up to 1 21 such contracts. 1 22 2. Comparison of the total compensation, including 1 23 wages, hours, benefits, and conditions of employment 1 24 of the involved public employees with those of private 1 25 sector and other public employees doing comparable 1 26 work, giving consideration to factors peculiar to the 1 27 area and the classifications involved. 1 28 3. Consideration of the economic cost of each item 1 29 of a proposed collective bargaining agreement and the 1 30 relationship of the cost of each item to the total 1 31 economic cost of a proposed collective bargaining 1 32 agreement. 1 33 4. The interests and welfare of the public and the 1 34 effect on the public employer of financing economic 1 35 adjustments in a collective bargaining agreement on 1 36 the normal standard of services. 1 37 5. The ability of the public employer to finance 1 38 economic adjustments; provided, however, that the 1 39 employer's ability to finance economic adjustments 1 40 shall not be predicated on the premise that the 1 41 employer may increase or impose new taxes, fees, or 1 42 charges, use funds collected and otherwise dedicated 1 43 by law for a special or restricted purpose, or develop 1 44 other sources of revenue. 1 45 6. The present and anticipated future economic 1 46 conditions that may impact the financing of economic 1 47 adjustments, including consideration of the public 1 48 employer's financial condition, the general economic 1 49 condition of the state, and the general condition of 1 50 the economy as a whole. 2 1 Sec. 3. Section 20.17, subsection 6, Code 2003, is 2 2 amended to read as follows: 2 3 6. No collective bargaining agreement or 2 4 arbitrators' decision shall be valid or enforceable if 2 5 its implementation would be inconsistent with any 2 6 statutory limitation on the public employer's funds, 2 7 spending or budget, which includes consideration of 2 8 the bargaining factors enumerated in section 20.16A, 2 9 or would substantially impair or limit the performance 2 10 of any statutory duty by the public employer. A 2 11 collective bargaining agreement or arbitrators' award 2 12 may provide for benefits conditional upon specified 2 13 funds to be obtained by the public employer, but the 2 14 agreement shall provide either for automatic reduction 2 15 of such conditional benefits or for additional 2 16 bargaining if the funds are not obtained or if a 2 17 lesser amount is obtained. 2 18 Sec. 4. Section 20.21, unnumbered paragraph 1, 2 19 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows: 2 20 If the impasse persists ten days after the mediator 2 21 has been appointed, the board shall appoint a fact- 2 22 finder representative of the public, from a list of 2 23 qualified persons maintained by the board. The fact- 2 24 finder shall conduct a hearing, may administer oaths, 2 25 and may request the board to issue subpoenas. The 2 26 fact-finder shall make written findings of facts and 2 27 recommendations for resolution of the dispute, taking 2 28 into consideration the bargaining factors enumerated 2 29 in section 20.16A, and, not later than fifteen days 2 30 from the day of appointment, shall serve such findings 2 31 on the public employer and the certified employee 2 32 organization. 2 33 Sec. 5. Section 20.22, subsection 9, Code 2003, is 2 34 amended by striking the subsection and inserting in 2 35 lieu thereof the following: 2 36 9. The panel of arbitrators shall consider, in 2 37 addition to any other relevant factors, the bargaining 2 38 factors enumerated in section 20.16A." 2 39 #2. By renumbering as necessary. 2 40 2 41 2 42 2 43 NEAL SCHUERER 2 44 SF 313.201 80 2 45 ec/sh
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