H-1100

   Amend House File 549 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 20.9, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:

   The public employer and the employee organization shall meet at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in advance of the public employer’s budget-making process, to negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours, vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay, seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for staff reduction, in-service training, preparation time, and other matters mutually agreed upon. Negotiations shall also include terms authorizing dues checkoff for members of the employee organization and grievance procedures for resolving any questions arising under the agreement, which shall be embodied in a written agreement and signed by the parties. If an agreement provides for dues checkoff, a member’s dues may be checked off only upon the member’s written request and the member may terminate the dues checkoff at any time by giving thirty days’ written notice. Such obligation to negotiate in good faith does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or make a concession.
   Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to collective bargaining negotiations entered into pursuant to chapter 20 on and after the effective date of this Act.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act relating to the scope of public employee collective bargaining negotiations and including applicability>

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FINKENAUER of Dubuque