HB 348  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2021 SESSION

21-0365

04/06

 

HOUSE BILL 348

 

AN ACT requiring a public employer to provide notice of a new or amended collective bargaining agreement.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Turcotte, Straf. 4; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 9; Sen. Avard, Dist 12

 

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires a public employer to post notice and an electronic copy of a tentative agreement on any new or amended collective bargaining agreement on the public employer's Internet website.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

21-0365

04/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

 

AN ACT requiring a public employer to provide notice of a new or amended collective bargaining agreement.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Public Employees Labor Relations Board; Notice of Tentative Agreement Required.  Amend RSA 273-A by inserting after section 3 the following new section:

273-A:3-a  Notice of Tentative Agreement Required.  A public employer shall post notice of a tentative agreement on any new or amended collective bargaining agreement in a conspicuous place on the public employer's Internet website.  The public employer shall also make available for inspection an electronic copy of the tentative agreement on any new or amended collective bargaining agreement on the public employer’s Internet website.  Both the notice of the tentative agreement and the electronic copy of the tentative agreement shall remain on the public employer's Internet website for not less than 30 days after the signing of the tentative agreement.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.