Senate Amendment 5332 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 2411 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 2, by inserting after line 23 the 1 3 following: 1 4 <Sec. . Section 20.17, subsection 3, Code 2007, 1 5 is amended to read as follows: 1 6 3. Negotiating sessions, strategy meetings of 1 7 public employers or employee organizations, mediation 1 8 and the deliberative process of arbitrators shall be 1 9exempt fromsubject to the provisions of chapter 21. 1 10However, theThe employee organization shall present 1 11 its initial bargaining position to the public employer 1 12 at the first bargaining session. The public employer 1 13 shall present its initial bargaining position to the 1 14 employee organization at the second bargaining 1 15 session, which shall be held no later than two weeks 1 16 following the first bargaining session. Both sessions 1 17 shall be open to the public and subject to the 1 18 provisions of chapter 21. Hearings conducted by 1 19 arbitrators shall be open to the public.> 1 20 #2. By renumbering as necessary. 1 21 1 22 1 23 1 24 STEVE KETTERING 1 25 SF 2411.202 82 1 26 rh/rj/11498 1 27 1 28 1 29 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35 1 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 1 40 1 41 1 42 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 1 47 1 48 1 49 1 50 -1-