Amend House File 525 as follows:
   1.  Page 4, after line 5 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  20.32  FREE AGENCY —— PROHIBITED CONDUCT —— PENALTIES.
   1.  A public employee or any other person on the employee’s behalf who receives any financial or nonfinancial inducement or benefit from any person for declaring themselves a free agent employee commits a serious misdemeanor. 
   2.  A public employee who receives disparate treatment from a public employer, which is beneficial to the employee in relation to the treatment the public employee would be entitled to receive under the negotiated agreement as a member of the bargaining unit from which the public employee became a free agent commits a serious misdemeanor. 
   3.  A violation of this section is also punishable as a civil infraction with a penalty not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. A representative of the affected bargaining unit shall may file a complaint alleging violation of this section.>
   2.  Title page, line 2, by striking<agreements> and inserting <agreements, providing penalties,>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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ISENHART of Dubuque