H-1453

   Amend  the amendment, H-1448, to Senate File 516, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 9, after line 21 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  20.27A  Transit employee exclusion when federal funding at risk.
   1.  If the director of the department of transportation determines that a public employer who employs a public employee would likely lose federal funding under 49 U.S.C. §5333(b) if such public employee is not declared a transit employee, the director shall declare such public employee a transit employee.
   2.  The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to a public employee declared a transit employee pursuant to subsection 1. The provisions of chapter 20, Code 2017, shall instead be applicable to such public employee.
   3.  The department of transportation and the board may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to provide for procedures as deemed necessary to implement this section. The rules may include but are not limited to any procedures the department or board may deem necessary to avoid or minimize any loss of federal funding under 49 U.S.C. §5333(b) by a public employer in this state.
   Sec. ___.  Section 70A.19, Code 2017, as amended by 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 291, section 22, is amended to read as follows:
   70A.19  Payroll deduction for employee organization dues prohibited.
   The state, a state agency, a regents institution, a board of directors of a school district, a community college, or an area education agency, a county board of supervisors, a governing body of a city, or any other public employer as defined in section 20.3 shall not authorize or administer a deduction from the salaries or wages of its employees for membership dues to an employee organization as defined in section 20.3, unless such employees have been declared transit employees pursuant to section 20.27A.>
   2.  Page 13, before line 17 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  REPEAL.  Section 20.32, as enacted by 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 291, section 18, is repealed.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  The following provisions of this division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, take effect upon enactment:
   1.  The section of this division of this Act enacting section 20.27A.
   2.  The section of this division of this Act amending section 70A.19.
   3.  The section of this division of this Act repealing section 20.32.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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HUNTER of Polk

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HALL of Woodbury