Amend House File 525 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, after line 19 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 20.17, subsection 3, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Negotiating sessions, strategy meetings of public employers, mediation, and the deliberative process of arbitrators shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 21. However, the employee organization shall present its initial bargaining position to the public employer at the first bargaining session. The public employer shall present its initial bargaining position to the employee organization at the second bargaining session, which shall be held no later than two weeks following the first bargaining session. Both sessions The public employer shall present its initial bargaining position at the same time. The session shall be open to the public and subject to the provisions of chapter 21. Parties who by agreement are utilizing a cooperative alternative bargaining process may exchange their respective initial interest statements in lieu of initial bargaining positions at these this open sessions session. Hearings conducted by arbitrators shall be open to the public.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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HUNTER of Polk