H-8224

   Amend Senate File 2364, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 9, after line 33 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  26A.5  Whistleblower protections.
   An employee performing work on a public improvement subject to a guaranteed maximum price contract shall have the right to submit a complaint to the employee’s employer regarding any working condition that the employee believes in good faith is unsafe. An employee shall not be subject to disciplinary action, intimidation, or other adverse employment action for making such a complaint. If the employer does not resolve the complaint to the employee’s satisfaction or otherwise make a good faith effort to determine an alternative resolution, the employee shall have the right to refuse an assigned task if the employee believes in good faith that performing the task could result in serious injury or death.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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HUNTER of Polk