Senate File 2034

                                   SENATE FILE       
                                   BY  REHBERG, McKINLEY, HOSCH,
                                       BEHN, BOETTGER, ANGELO,
                                       MILLER, ZIEMAN, SCHUERER,
                                       VEENSTRA, WIECK, SEYMOUR,
                                       and KETTERING


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing an exemption to dues checkoff in the scope of
  2    negotiations for school district and area education agency
  3    teachers.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5534XS 80
  6 kh/sh/8

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 20.9, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The public employer and the employee organization shall
  1  4 meet at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in
  1  5 advance of the public employer's budget=making process, to
  1  6 negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours,
  1  7 vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift
  1  8 differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay,
  1  9 seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health
  1 10 and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for
  1 11 staff reduction, in=service training and other matters
  1 12 mutually agreed upon.  Negotiations Except when the public
  1 13 employees represented by a certified employee organization are
  1 14 teachers licensed under chapter 272 and the public employer is
  1 15 a school district or area education agency, negotiations shall
  1 16 also include terms authorizing dues checkoff for members of
  1 17 the employee organization and grievance procedures for
  1 18 resolving any questions arising under the agreement, which
  1 19 shall be embodied in a written agreement and signed by the
  1 20 parties.  If an agreement provides for dues checkoff, a
  1 21 member's dues may be checked off only upon the member's
  1 22 written request and the member may terminate the dues checkoff
  1 23 at any time by giving thirty days' written notice.  Such
  1 24 obligation to negotiate in good faith does not compel either
  1 25 party to agree to a proposal or make a concession.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill exempts teachers employed by school districts or
  1 28 area education agencies from the authority to include terms
  1 29 authorizing dues checkoff in the scope of negotiations
  1 30 specified in Code chapter 20, governing public employee
  1 31 collective bargaining.
  1 32 LSB 5534XS 80
  1 33 kh/sh/8
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