Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001
Latest action · Sep 19, 2001 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 162.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 24, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to determine whether State law provides specified rights and responsibilities for public safety officers, including: (1) granting public safety employees the right to form and join a labor organization which excludes management and supervisory employees, and which is, or seeks to be, recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for such employees; and (2) requiring public safety employers to recognize and agree to bargain with the employees' labor organization.
Requires the FLRA to issue regulations establishing collective bargaining procedures for public safety employers and employees in States that do not substantially provide for such rights and responsibilities. Directs the FLRA, in such cases, to: (1) determine the appropriateness of units for labor organization representation; (2) supervise or conduct elections to determine whether a labor organization has been selected as an exclusive representative by a majority of the employees in an appropriate unit; (3) resolve issues relating to the duty to bargain in good faith; (4) conduct hearings and resolve complaints of unfair labor practices; and (5) resolve exceptions to arbitrator's awards. Grants a public safety employer, employee, or labor organization the right to seek enforcement of such FLRA regulations and authority through appropriate State courts.
Prohibits public safety employers, employees, and labor organizations from engaging in lockouts or strikes, or sickouts, work slowdowns, or other actions designed to compel agreement to a proposed contract which will measurably disrupt the delivery of emergency services.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 24, 2001 to Oct 16, 2002; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | May 24, 2001 |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Original | May 24, 2001 |
| R-OH | Mike DeWine | Original | May 24, 2001 |
| D-MO | Jean Carnahan | Jun 5, 2001 | |
| D-MN | Mark Dayton | Jun 5, 2001 | |
| D-NE | Ben Nelson | Jun 6, 2001 | |
| D-MD | Paul S. Sarbanes | Jun 12, 2001 | |
| D-SD | Thomas A. Daschle | Jun 18, 2001 | |
| D-GA | Max Cleland | Jun 29, 2001 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Jul 27, 2001 | |
| D-NJ | Robert G. Torricelli | Jul 27, 2001 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Sep 10, 2001 | |
| D-MN | Paul D. Wellstone | Sep 19, 2001 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Sep 19, 2001 | |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Oct 4, 2001 |
Withdrew 1 James M. Inhofe R-OK Jul 8, 2002
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred May 24, 2001Markup Sep 13, 2001Reported Sep 19, 2001 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 19, 2001Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Kennedy without amendment. Without written report.
- Sep 19, 2001Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 162.
- Sep 13, 2001Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- May 24, 2001Introduced in Senate
- May 24, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5630)
- May 24, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 5/25/2001 S5755-5757)
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Text printed S5755–S5757 | Judd Gregg R-NH (text) | May 25, 2001 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S5630 | Edward M. Kennedy D-MA, Judd Gregg R-NH | May 24, 2001 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Sep 24, 2001S. 952, Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001<p>Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 19, 2001</p>
- Sep 24, 2001S. 952, Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001Cost estimate for the bill as reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 19, 2001
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
About this bill 1
Products that name it in their title: its number, its law number or one of its short titles.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R40738 | The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act Archived | Report | Dec 9, 2010 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1475 | Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001 | Related bill | Jun 20, 2001 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed by States or their political subdivisions.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Appellate courts
- Civil actions and liability
- Collective bargaining agreements
- Collective bargaining in government
- Collective bargaining unit
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical personnel
- Employee rights
- Employee-management relations in government
- Federal Labor Relations Authority
- Fire fighters
- Government employee unions
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Industrial arbitration
- Injunctions
- Judicial review of administrative acts
- Jurisdiction
- Labor and Employment
- Labor contracts
- Labor union elections
- Law
- Law enforcement officers
- Local employees
- Local laws
- Lockouts
- Mediation
- Paramedical personnel
- Police
- Public sector strikes
- State courts
- State employees
- State laws
- State-local relations
- Unfair labor practices
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 19, 2001Reported to Senate
- May 24, 2001Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
