SB 171-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
05/09
SENATE BILL 171-FN
AN ACT relative to the negotiation of cost items within the public employee collective bargaining process and relative to computation of leave for state police employees injured in the line of duty.
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill permits certified bargaining units to negotiate independently with the state rather than in conjunction with the state employees association. The bill also permits a state police employee who is absent due to a line of duty injury to continue to accrue all leave to which he or she is otherwise entitled.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0905
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the negotiation of cost items within the public employee collective bargaining process and relative to computation of leave for state police employees injured in the line of duty.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Public Employee Labor Relations; Bargaining by State Employees; Single Employee Bargaining Committee Requirement Removed. Amend RSA 273-A:9, I to read as follows:
I. All cost items and terms and conditions of employment affecting [state employees] each certified bargaining unit in the classified system [generally] shall be negotiated with each certified bargaining unit by the state, represented by the governor as chief executive[, with a single employee bargaining committee comprised of exclusive representatives of all interested bargaining units. Negotiations regarding terms and conditions of employment unique to individual bargaining units shall be negotiated individually with the representatives of those units by the governor].
2 Line of Duty Injury; Effect on Computation of Leave and Seniority Status. Amend RSA 106-B:18 to read as follows:
106-B:18 Line of Duty Injury. Any injury received by any state police employee because of his or her assignment, patrol or duty that requires that [he] the employee be hospitalized or to the extent that [he] the employee is unable to perform [his] normal or routine duties shall not be charged against [his] earned sick leave or annual leave, and the employee shall continue to accrue all leave to which he or she is otherwise entitled. During such time [his] the employee's name shall remain on the payroll. The director of the division of state police shall make the final determination as to whether the injury received is in line of duty and [his] the director's decision is final, subject to approval of governor and council.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
LBAO
01-0905
3/5/01
SB 171-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the negotiation of cost items within the public employee collective bargaining process and relative to computation of leave for state police employees injured in the line of duty.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from an agency.