House File 522 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  T. TAYLOR


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning employees subject to unannounced drug or
  2    alcohol testing.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2578YH 82
  5 ec/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 730.5, subsection 8, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  Employers may conduct unannounced drug or alcohol
  1  4 testing of employees who are selected from any of the
  1  5 following pools of employees:
  1  6    (1)  The entire employee population at a particular work
  1  7 site of the employer except for employees not subject to
  1  8 testing pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, or
  1  9 employees who are not scheduled to be at work at the time the
  1 10 testing is conducted because of the status of the employees or
  1 11 who have been excused from work pursuant to the employer's
  1 12 work policy prior to the time the testing is announced to
  1 13 employees.
  1 14    (2)  The entire full=time active employee population at a
  1 15 particular work site except for employees not subject to
  1 16 testing pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, or
  1 17 employees who are not scheduled to be at work at the time the
  1 18 testing is to be conducted because of the status of the
  1 19 employee, or who have been excused from work pursuant to the
  1 20 employer's working policy.
  1 21    (3)  All employees at a particular work site who are in a
  1 22 pool of employees in a safety=sensitive position and who are
  1 23 scheduled to be at work at the time testing is conducted,
  1 24 other than employees not subject to testing pursuant to a
  1 25 collective bargaining agreement, or employees who are not
  1 26 scheduled to be at work at the time the testing is to be
  1 27 conducted or who have been excused from work pursuant to the
  1 28 employer's work policy prior to the time the testing is
  1 29 announced to employees.
  1 30                           EXPLANATION
  1 31    This bill concerns the conducting of unannounced drug or
  1 32 alcohol testing of employees by an employer.  Current law
  1 33 provides that random testing must be conducted from a pool of
  1 34 employees that include all the employees subject to testing
  1 35 unless the employee is not scheduled for work or excused from
  2  1 work at the time of testing.  The bill provides that employees
  2  2 not subject to testing pursuant to a collective bargaining
  2  3 agreement are excluded from the pools of employees from which
  2  4 a random drug or alcohol test may be conducted.
  2  5 LSB 2578YH 82
  2  6 ec:nh/gg/14