HR 3463 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2019

Introduced Jun 25, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Matt Cartwright D-PA

Latest action · Jun 25, 2019 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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.

IntroducedJun 25, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2019

This bill prohibits strikes by certain individuals and requires the issuance of rules that provide for federal minimum standard collective bargaining rights and procedures.

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) shall determine for each state whether the laws of such state substantially provide for each of the minimum standard collective bargaining rights and procedures specified by this bill, including the right of public employees and supervisory employees to self-organize, form or join a labor organization, or collectively bargain.

The FLRA must issue rules and take actions to establish and administer bargaining rights and procedures for those states that do not substantially provide for them.

No employers, emergency services employees, or law enforcement officers may engage in a lockout, strike, or any other organized job action that would probably result in a measurable disruption of the delivery of emergency or public safety services. Furthermore, no labor organization may be the cause of a violation of such prohibition.

Cosponsors 229

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 25, 2019 to Mar 9, 2020; 27 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-IA	Abby Finkenauer	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NJ	Donald Norcross	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-MP	Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-MN	Ilhan Omar	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-CT	Jahana Hayes	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-MA	Lori Trahan	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-PA	Madeleine Dean	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Jun 25, 2019
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Jun 26, 2019
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jun 26, 2019
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jul 9, 2019
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 9, 2019
D-NM	Debra A. Haaland		Jul 9, 2019
D-FL	Donna E. Shalala		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 9, 2019
D-NY	Grace Meng		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Mark Takano		Jul 9, 2019
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jul 9, 2019
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Jul 9, 2019
D-MI	Rashida Tlaib		Jul 9, 2019
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jul 9, 2019
D-CA	Ro Khanna		Jul 9, 2019
D-OH	Tim Ryan		Jul 9, 2019
D-MI	Andy Levin		Jul 12, 2019
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Jul 12, 2019
D-FL	Darren Soto		Jul 12, 2019
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice		Jul 12, 2019
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jul 12, 2019
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Jul 15, 2019
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jul 15, 2019
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jul 15, 2019
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jul 15, 2019
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jul 15, 2019
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown		Jul 17, 2019
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jul 17, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Jul 17, 2019
D-NH	Chris Pappas		Jul 17, 2019
D-IA	Cynthia Axne		Jul 17, 2019
D-CA	Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.		Jul 17, 2019
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jul 17, 2019
D-CO	Jason Crow		Jul 17, 2019
D-IL	Jesús G. "Chuy" García		Jul 17, 2019
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jul 17, 2019
D-GA	John Lewis		Jul 17, 2019
D-OR	Kurt Schrader		Jul 17, 2019
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jul 17, 2019
D-NY	Max Rose		Jul 17, 2019
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Jul 17, 2019
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi		Jul 17, 2019
D-CA	Katie Hill		Jul 18, 2019
D-DE	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Jul 18, 2019
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Jul 18, 2019
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Jul 24, 2019
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jul 24, 2019
D-MD	David J. Trone		Jul 24, 2019
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jul 24, 2019
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Jul 24, 2019
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Jul 24, 2019
D-CA	Katie Porter		Jul 24, 2019
D-PA	Mary Gay Scanlon		Jul 24, 2019
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jul 24, 2019
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Jul 24, 2019
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Jul 24, 2019
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Jul 24, 2019
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jul 24, 2019
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Jul 25, 2019
D-IL	Cheri Bustos		Jul 25, 2019
D-WA	Derek Kilmer		Jul 25, 2019
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 25, 2019
D-MI	Haley M. Stevens		Jul 25, 2019
D-FL	Kathy Castor		Jul 25, 2019
D-CA	Mike Levin		Jul 25, 2019
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Jul 25, 2019
D-VT	Peter Welch		Jul 25, 2019
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jul 25, 2019
D-PA	Susan Wild		Jul 25, 2019
D-IN	André Carson		Jul 30, 2019
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Jul 30, 2019
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence		Jul 30, 2019
D-PA	Conor Lamb		Jul 30, 2019
D-MI	Debbie Dingell		Jul 30, 2019
D-WA	Denny Heck		Jul 30, 2019
D-NV	Dina Titus		Jul 30, 2019
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		Jul 30, 2019
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Jul 30, 2019
D-CA	Jimmy Gomez		Jul 30, 2019
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Jul 30, 2019
D-NY	Joseph D. Morelle		Jul 30, 2019
D-AZ	Ruben Gallego		Jul 30, 2019
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Jul 30, 2019
D-CA	Tony Cárdenas		Jul 30, 2019
D-FL	Charlie Crist		Aug 2, 2019
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Aug 2, 2019
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Aug 9, 2019
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Aug 9, 2019
D-CA	Jimmy Panetta		Aug 9, 2019
D-MA	Seth Moulton		Aug 9, 2019
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Aug 16, 2019
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Aug 16, 2019
D-VA	A. Donald McEachin		Aug 27, 2019
D-MN	Angie Craig		Aug 27, 2019
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Aug 27, 2019
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Aug 27, 2019
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee		Aug 27, 2019
D-IA	David Loebsack		Aug 27, 2019
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Aug 27, 2019
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Aug 27, 2019
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Aug 27, 2019
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Aug 27, 2019
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Aug 27, 2019
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Aug 27, 2019
D-FL	Val Butler Demings		Aug 27, 2019
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Sep 3, 2019
D-IL	Bill Foster		Sep 3, 2019
D-CA	Ted Lieu		Sep 3, 2019
D-PA	Dwight Evans		Sep 9, 2019
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Sep 9, 2019
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Sep 9, 2019
D-CA	Jim Costa		Sep 9, 2019
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 9, 2019
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Sep 9, 2019
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene		Sep 9, 2019
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Sep 10, 2019
D-HI	Ed Case		Sep 10, 2019
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Sep 10, 2019
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Sep 11, 2019
D-NY	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez		Sep 17, 2019
D-MI	Elissa Slotkin		Sep 17, 2019
D-TX	Filemon Vela		Sep 17, 2019
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton		Sep 17, 2019
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Sep 17, 2019
D-WI	Ron Kind		Sep 17, 2019
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal		Sep 17, 2019
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Sep 18, 2019
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Sep 18, 2019
D-IL	Sean Casten		Sep 18, 2019
D-TX	Sylvia R. Garcia		Sep 18, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Mucarsel-Powell		Sep 19, 2019
D-CO	Joe Neguse		Sep 20, 2019
D-NJ	Tom Malinowski		Sep 20, 2019
D-NJ	Mikie Sherrill		Sep 24, 2019
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 24, 2019
D-AZ	Tom O'Halleran		Sep 24, 2019
D-MA	William R. Keating		Sep 24, 2019
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Sep 25, 2019
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Sep 25, 2019
D-CA	Tj Cox		Sep 26, 2019
D-IL	Raja Krishnamoorthi		Oct 1, 2019
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Oct 4, 2019
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Oct 4, 2019
D-NJ	Andy Kim		Oct 4, 2019
D-NY	Antonio Delgado		Oct 4, 2019
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Oct 4, 2019
D-CT	James A. Himes		Oct 4, 2019
D-WA	Kim Schrier		Oct 4, 2019
D-TX	Marc A. Veasey		Oct 4, 2019
D-TX	Veronica Escobar		Oct 4, 2019
D-TX	Vicente Gonzalez		Oct 4, 2019
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Oct 11, 2019
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Oct 11, 2019
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Oct 15, 2019
D-MN	Dean Phillips		Oct 15, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Oct 17, 2019
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán		Oct 17, 2019
R-PA	Brian K. Fitzpatrick		Oct 18, 2019
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Oct 18, 2019
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Oct 18, 2019
D-CA	Josh Harder		Oct 21, 2019
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Oct 22, 2019
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard		Oct 22, 2019
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Oct 23, 2019
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		Oct 28, 2019
D-NY	Anthony Brindisi		Oct 28, 2019
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Oct 28, 2019
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Oct 28, 2019
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Oct 28, 2019
D-GA	Lucy McBath		Oct 28, 2019
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Oct 28, 2019
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Oct 29, 2019
D-CA	Harley Rouda		Oct 29, 2019
D-CT	John B. Larson		Oct 29, 2019
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Oct 29, 2019
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Oct 29, 2019
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Nov 12, 2019
D-NM	Xochitl Torres Small		Nov 12, 2019
D-TX	Al Green		Nov 13, 2019
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		Nov 13, 2019
D-GA	David Scott		Nov 13, 2019
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Nov 13, 2019
D-TX	Henry Cuellar		Nov 14, 2019
D-KS	Sharice Davids		Nov 14, 2019
D-NC	David E. Price		Nov 18, 2019
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Nov 18, 2019
D-NV	Susie Lee		Nov 18, 2019
D-NJ	Jefferson Van Drew		Nov 20, 2019
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Nov 22, 2019
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Nov 22, 2019
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney		Nov 22, 2019
D-FL	Al Lawson, Jr.		Nov 26, 2019
D-NJ	Josh Gottheimer		Dec 4, 2019
D-FL	Stephanie N. Murphy		Jan 15, 2020
D-AZ	Greg Stanton		Jan 24, 2020
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Jan 24, 2020
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Jan 28, 2020
D-TX	Colin Z. Allred		Feb 18, 2020
D-PA	Chrissy Houlahan		Feb 25, 2020
R-NE	Don Bacon		Mar 9, 2020

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 Jun 25, 2019

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 25, 2019Introduced in House
Jun 25, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I; Section 8; Clause 3 of the Constitution states The Congress shall have Power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 107, June 25, 2019, page H5167.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 116-32	STANDING WITH PUBLIC SERVANTS: PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE121 pages	Education and Workforce Committee	Jun 26, 2019

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1970	Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2019	Related bill	Jun 25, 2019

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To secure the rights of public employees to organize, act concertedly, and bargain collectively, which safeguard the public interest and promote the free and unobstructed flow of commerce, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2019

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 25, 2019Introduced in House

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