HR 5860 · 111th Congress 2009–2011, ended

Union Member Protection Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 13, 2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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.

  1. IntroducedJul 26, 2010
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Union Member Protection Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin Act) to require a labor organization's mandatory report to the Secretary of Labor on its constitution, officers, and basic organization to include, in a clear and simple format, both: (1) a description of the specific nature and total amount of political expenditures the labor organization proposes to make for the upcoming fiscal year; and (2) a disclosure of how each labor organization officer voted on each political expenditure made by the organization during the preceding fiscal year.

Prohibits a labor organization from making political expenditures unless: (1) they are of the nature of those proposed in such report; and (2) they have received a full, free, and written authorization by secret ballot by a majority of the labor organization members.

Makes officers jointly and severally liable for authorizing a political expenditure without first obtaining the authorization of labor organization members.

Requires labor organization bylaws to provide expressly for a vote of the organization's principal officers on individual political expenditures in excess of $50,000. Requires a labor organization to make public the individual votes of such officers within 48 hours, including in a clear and conspicuous location on its website.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 26, 2010 to Jul 28, 2010, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-CAKevin McCarthyOriginalJul 26, 2010
R-KSLynn JenkinsOriginalJul 26, 2010
R-ALSpencer BachusOriginalJul 26, 2010
R-TXRandy NeugebauerJul 28, 2010

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Oct 13, 2010Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
  2. Jul 26, 2010Introduced in House
  3. Jul 26, 2010Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jul 26, 2010Introduced in House

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