Bill > S1328

Introduced Session

An act relating to public employee collective bargaining; reordering and amending s. 447.203, F.S.; defining terms; amending s. 447.307, F.S.; requiring employee organizations or public employees seeking to certify, recertify, or decertify a bargaining agent to file a petition with the Public Employees Relations Commission; requiring that such petition be accompanied by certain information; authorizing registered employee organizations desiring placement on the ballot in a certification or recertification election to be permitted with a showing of interest from a certain percentage of public employees in the proposed or existing bargaining unit; providing that the showing of interest is confidential and exempt from public disclosure; prohibiting the filing of a petition for certification or decertification for a proposed or existing bargaining unit within a specified timeframe after the commission verifies the result of a certification election that covers any of the employees of such proposed or existing bargaining unit; requiring, rather than authorizing, the dismissal of a petition for certification or decertification if such petition is insufficient; requiring the commission to take certain action if such petition is sufficient; requiring certain elections to be determined by a majority vote of the employees in the bargaining unit; providing exceptions; requiring that certain elections in bargaining units in which the majority of the employees are public safety employees be determined by a majority vote of employees voting in the election; providing that certification, recertification, or revocation is effective upon the issuance of a final order by the commission, or at the time the appeal of such order is exhausted; deleting a prohibition on the filing of petitions seeking an election within a specified timeframe after the commission order verifies such election; deleting a provision that a petition for certification may be filed under certain circumstances when there is a valid collective agreement already in effect; repealing s. 447.308, F.S., relating to revocation of certification of employee organizations; amending s. 447.509, F.S.; prohibiting public employers, their agents or representatives, or persons acting on their behalf from denying access to or use of certain events, facilities, equipment, and resources; prohibiting such entities or persons acting on their behalf from providing compensation or paid leave to public employees for a specified purpose; authorizing public employees to engage in specified employee organization activities under certain circumstances; providing applicability; amending s. 447.207, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending ss. 110.114, 110.205, 112.3187, 121.031, 447.02, 447.305, and 1011.60, F.S.; conforming cross-references; reenacting s. 120.80(12)(b), F.S., relating to the Public Employees Relations Commission, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 447.307, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

Randy Fine (R)*, 

Withdrawn from further consideration (on 04/07/2025)

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