HB 1570 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
06/03
HOUSE BILL 1570
AN ACT relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.
SPONSORS: Rep. Ward, Rock 13; Rep. Simmons, Hills 17; Rep. Munck, Straf 2; Rep. W. Smith, Rock 18
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill provides that no public employee labor organization shall be required to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2777
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Obligation to Bargain. Amend RSA 273-A:3 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:
V. The employee organization certified by the board as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit shall not be required to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. A collective bargaining agreement reached under this chapter shall apply only to public employees in the bargaining unit who are members of, or who elect to pay dues or fees to, the employee organization.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.