Senate File 180 - Introduced SENATE FILE 180 BY FEENSTRA A BILL FOR An Act prohibiting school districts and area education agencies 1 from making teacher payroll deductions for membership dues 2 for employment organizations or labor unions and including 3 applicability provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1819XS (2) 84 je/rj

S.F. 180 Section 1. Section 20.9, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, 1 is amended to read as follows: 2 The public employer and the employee organization shall meet 3 at reasonable times, including meetings reasonably in advance 4 of the public employer’s budget-making process, to negotiate in 5 good faith with respect to wages, hours, vacations, insurance, 6 holidays, leaves of absence, shift differentials, overtime 7 compensation, supplemental pay, seniority, transfer procedures, 8 job classifications, health and safety matters, evaluation 9 procedures, procedures for staff reduction, in-service training 10 and other matters mutually agreed upon. Negotiations shall 11 also include terms authorizing dues checkoff for members 12 of the employee organization , other than members who are 13 teachers licensed under chapter 272 and who are employed by a 14 public employer which is a school district or area education 15 agency, and grievance procedures for resolving any questions 16 arising under the agreement, which shall be embodied in a 17 written agreement and signed by the parties. If an agreement 18 provides for dues checkoff, a member’s dues may be checked 19 off only upon the member’s written request and the member may 20 terminate the dues checkoff at any time by giving thirty days’ 21 written notice. Such obligation to negotiate in good faith 22 does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or make a 23 concession. 24 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION . 273.16 Payroll deduction for 25 membership dues prohibited. 26 An area education agency shall not deduct from a teacher’s 27 wages or salary membership dues for any employment organization 28 or labor union. 29 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION . 279.68 Payroll deduction for 30 membership dues prohibited. 31 A school district shall not deduct from a teacher’s wages or 32 salary membership dues for any employment organization or labor 33 union. 34 Sec. 4. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to collective 35 -1- LSB 1819XS (2) 84 je/rj 1/ 2

S.F. 180 bargaining agreements entered into on or after the effective 1 date of this Act. 2 EXPLANATION 3 This bill prohibits a school district or area education 4 agency from deducting membership dues for any employment 5 organization or labor union from a teacher’s wages or salary. 6 The bill removes dues checkoffs for teachers licensed under 7 Code chapter 272 who are employed by a public employer which is 8 a school district or area education agency from the scope of 9 negotiations for collective bargaining agreements under Code 10 chapter 20. 11 The bill applies to collective bargaining agreements entered 12 into on or after the effective date of the bill. 13 -2- LSB 1819XS (2) 84 je/rj 2/ 2