Bill Text: NH HB438 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminating the automatic union dues payment for state employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-15 - Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate for 01/03/2018 (Vote 19-0; Consent Calendar) [HB438 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB438-Introduced.html

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HB 438 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0686

06/01

 

HOUSE BILL 438

 

AN ACT eliminating the automatic union dues payment for state employees.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Hinch, Hills. 21; Rep. Kurk, Hills. 2; Rep. Packard, Rock. 5; Rep. Chandler, Carr. 1; Rep. Ohm, Hills. 36

 

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits a public employer from withholding union dues from a public employee's wages.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0686

06/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT eliminating the automatic union dues payment for state employees.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Withholding of Wages; Union Dues.  Amend RSA 275:48, I(b)(1) to read as follows:

(1)  Union dues, except that no public employer shall withhold union dues from a public employee's wages;

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.