Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
Latest action · Apr 5, 2018 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.
- IntroducedJan 19, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act
This bill requires the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine whether a state substantially provides public safety officers or employees:
- the right to form and join a labor organization;
- recognition by public safety employers of the employees' labor organization, agreement to bargain with the organization, and reduction of any agreements to writing in a contract or memorandum of understanding;
- the right to bargain over hours, wages, and terms and conditions of employment; and
- binding interest arbitration to resolve an impasse in collective bargaining negotiations.
The bill makes the authority responsible for: (1) determining the appropriateness of units for labor representation; (2) supervising elections; (3) conducting hearings and resolving complaints of unfair labor practices; and (4) protecting the right of employees to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from doing so.
An employer, public safety officer, or labor organization may not engage in a lockout, sickout, work slowdown, strike, or any other organized job action that will measurably disrupt the delivery of emergency services and is designed to compel an employer, public safety officer, or labor organization to agree to the terms of a proposed contract.
Cosponsors 58
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 19, 2018 to Nov 6, 2018; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TN | John J. Duncan, Jr. | Original | Jan 19, 2018 |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Feb 6, 2018 | |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Feb 6, 2018 | |
| D-FL | Al Lawson, Jr. | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| R-FL | Carlos Curbelo | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Feb 14, 2018 | |
| D-NJ | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Feb 23, 2018 | |
| D-NH | Carol Shea-Porter | Feb 23, 2018 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Feb 23, 2018 | |
| D-OH | Tim Ryan | Feb 23, 2018 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Feb 26, 2018 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 27, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Mar 5, 2018 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Mar 5, 2018 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| D-NV | Ruben J. Kihuen | Mar 6, 2018 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Mar 7, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Mar 8, 2018 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | Mar 8, 2018 | |
| D-CO | Jared Polis | Mar 13, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Mar 13, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Mar 13, 2018 | |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Mar 19, 2018 | |
| D-MN | Timothy J. Walz | Mar 19, 2018 | |
| D-CO | Ed Perlmutter | Mar 26, 2018 | |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Apr 11, 2018 | |
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Apr 13, 2018 | |
| D-MN | Keith Ellison | Apr 13, 2018 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Apr 18, 2018 | |
| D-IL | Daniel Lipinski | Apr 26, 2018 | |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | Apr 26, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | May 7, 2018 | |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | May 15, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | May 15, 2018 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | May 18, 2018 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Jun 7, 2018 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jun 7, 2018 | |
| R-WV | David B. McKinley | Jun 20, 2018 | |
| R-CA | Paul Cook | Jun 20, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Jun 26, 2018 | |
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Jun 26, 2018 | |
| R-IL | Rodney Davis | Jul 10, 2018 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | Jul 16, 2018 | |
| R-MO | Ann Wagner | Jul 18, 2018 | |
| R-NE | Don Bacon | Jul 26, 2018 | |
| R-VA | Barbara Comstock | Aug 24, 2018 | |
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Sep 13, 2018 | |
| R-NY | Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. | Sep 25, 2018 | |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Sep 25, 2018 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Nov 6, 2018 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Nov 6, 2018 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 19, 2018 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Apr 5, 2018 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 5, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jan 19, 2018Introduced in House
- Jan 19, 2018Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 12, January 19, 2018, page H582.
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2845 | Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act | Related bill | May 15, 2018 |
| S 3151 | Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018 | Related bill | Jun 27, 2018 |
| HR 6238 | Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018 | Related bill | Jun 27, 2018 |
| HR 6445 | Public Employee Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018 | Related bill | Jul 19, 2018 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
- Civil actions and liability
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Federal Labor Relations Authority
- Federal preemption
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Health personnel
- Labor and Employment
- Labor-management relations
- Law enforcement officers
- State and local government operations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 19, 2018Introduced in House
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.
