PRINTER'S NO. 1609
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
55
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY KAUFFMAN, METCALFE, RAPP, F. KELLER, BLOOM,
KNOWLES, EVERETT, WARD, MACKENZIE, HICKERNELL, SCHEMEL,
McGINNIS, SAYLOR, IRVIN, GROVE, MENTZER, B. MILLER, LAWRENCE
AND ZIMMERMAN, MAY 1, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MAY 1, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), entitled
"An act establishing rights in public employes to organize
and bargain collectively through selected representatives;
defining public employes to include employes of nonprofit
organizations and institutions; providing compulsory
mediation and fact-finding, for collective bargaining
impasses; providing arbitration for certain public employes
for collective bargaining impasses; defining the scope of
collective bargaining; establishing unfair employe and
employer practices; prohibiting strikes for certain public
employes; permitting strikes under limited conditions;
providing penalties for violations; and establishing
procedures for implementation," further providing for
definitions; in employee rights, further providing for lawful
acts; and making an editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 301(18), 401 and 705 of the act of July
23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe
Relations Act, are amended to read:
Section 301. As used in this act:
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(18) "Maintenance of membership" means that all employes who
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have joined an employe organization or who join the employe
organization in the future must remain members for the duration
of a collective bargaining agreement so providing with the
proviso that any such employe or employes may resign from such
employe organization [during a period of fifteen days prior to
the expiration of] at any time during the term of any such
agreement if the resignation is submitted in writing.
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Section 401. It shall be lawful for public employes to
organize, form, join or assist in employe organizations or to
engage in lawful concerted activities for the purpose of
collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection or to
bargain collectively through representatives of their own free
choice and such employes shall also have the right to refrain
from any or all such activities, [except as may be required]
including the right to resign at any time pursuant to a
maintenance of membership provision in a collective bargaining
agreement.
Section 705. Membership dues deductions and maintenance of
membership are proper subjects of bargaining with the proviso
that as to the latter, the payment of dues and assessments while
members[,] may be the only requisite employment condition.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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