Amend House File 525 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, line 19, after<layoff.> by inserting <However, if a public employee is laid off and believes the layoff was based on gender discrimination, the public employee may submit the matter to the public employment relations board for binding arbitration as provided in the grievance procedures adopted pursuant to section 20.18, subsection 3.>
   2.  Page 2, after line 19 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 20.18, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  The public employment relations board shall adopt grievance procedures providing for binding arbitration of complaints of discrimination in layoffs submitted to the board by public employees pursuant to section 20.9, subsection 3, paragraph “d”.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MASCHER of Johnson

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