Senate File 54
SENATE FILE
BY CONNOLLY
(COMPANION TO LSB 1826HH
BY MURPHY)
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act specifying that health insurance benefits for retirees are
2 included within the topic of insurance as a mandatory subject
3 of bargaining for public employees.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
5 TLSB 1826SS 80
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 20.9, Code 2001, is amended to read as
1 2 follows:
1 3 20.9 SCOPE OF NEGOTIATIONS.
1 4 1. The public employer and the employee organization shall
1 5 meet at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in
1 6 advance of the public employer's budget=making process, to
1 7 negotiate in good faith with respect to wages, hours,
1 8 vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift
1 9 differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay,
1 10 seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health
1 11 and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for
1 12 staff reduction, in=service training and other all matters
1 13 mutually agreed upon, and all of the following issues:
1 14 a. Wages.
1 15 b. Hours.
1 16 c. Vacations.
1 17 d. Insurance, including health insurance benefits for
1 18 retirees.
1 19 e. Holidays.
1 20 f. Leaves of absence.
1 21 g. Shift differentials.
1 22 h. Overtime compensation.
1 23 i. Supplemental pay.
1 24 j. Seniority.
1 25 k. Transfer procedures.
1 26 l. Job classifications.
1 27 m. Health and safety matters.
1 28 n. Evaluation procedures.
1 29 o. Procedures for staff reduction.
1 30 p. In=service training. Negotiations shall also include
1 31 terms
1 32 q. Terms authorizing dues checkoff for members of the
1 33 employee organization and grievance.
1 34 r. Grievance procedures for resolving any questions
1 35 arising under the agreement, which.
2 1 2. The agreement of the parties shall be embodied in a
2 2 written agreement and signed by the parties.
2 3 3. If an agreement provides for dues checkoff, a member's
2 4 dues may be checked off only upon the member's written request
2 5 and the member may terminate the dues checkoff at any time by
2 6 giving thirty days' written notice. Such
2 7 4. The obligation to negotiate in good faith under this
2 8 section does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or
2 9 make a concession.
2 10 5. Nothing in this section shall diminish the authority
2 11 and power of the department of personnel, board of regents'
2 12 merit system, Iowa public broadcasting board's merit system,
2 13 or any civil service commission established by constitutional
2 14 provision, statute, charter, or special act to recruit
2 15 employees, prepare, conduct, and grade examinations, rate
2 16 candidates in order of their relative scores for certification
2 17 for appointment or promotion or for other matters of
2 18 classification, reclassification, or appeal rights in the
2 19 classified service of the public employer served.
2 20 6. All retirement systems shall be excluded from the scope
2 21 of negotiations. For the purposes of this section,
2 22 "retirement systems" includes only the systems providing
2 23 retirement payments pursuant to chapters 97, 97A, 97B, 410,
2 24 411, and 412, and to sections 602.1611, 602.11115, and
2 25 602.11116, and does not include health insurance benefits for
2 26 retirees mandated as a subject of negotiations by subsection
2 27 1, paragraph "d".
2 28 EXPLANATION
2 29 This bill amends the mandatory subjects of bargaining for
2 30 public employees under Code section 20.9. The bill also
2 31 reorganizes the existing Code language.
2 32 The bill specifies that insurance benefits for retirees are
2 33 included within the general topic of insurance as a mandatory
2 34 subject of bargaining for public employees. The other
2 35 mandatory subjects of bargaining remain the same, but are now
3 1 placed in individually lettered subsections.
3 2 The bill provides that the specification of insurance
3 3 benefits for retirees as a mandatory subject of bargaining
3 4 under new subsection 1 does not violate the exclusion from
3 5 negotiations in new subsection 6 of retirement systems, by
3 6 defining retirement systems to include only retirement
3 7 payments made pursuant to the systems in certain chapters and
3 8 sections of the Code, and to specifically exclude health
3 9 insurance benefits for retirees.
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