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2022 SESSION
HB 790 Collective bargaining; law enforcement, transparency and accountability.
Introduced by: Dave A. LaRock | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Collective bargaining; law enforcement; transparency and accountability. Prohibits a county, city, or town from entering into a collective bargaining contract with a labor union or other employee association representing law-enforcement officers or employees of a law-enforcement agency that (i) prevents the Attorney General from seeking equitable relief against a law-enforcement agency engaging in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct; (ii) includes any stipulation that delays officer interviews or interrogations after alleged wrongdoing for a set length of time; (iii) provides officers with access to evidence before interviews or interrogations about alleged wrongdoing; (iv) mandates the destruction or purging of disciplinary records from personnel files after a set length of time, or limits the consideration of disciplinary records in future employment actions; (v) prohibits the interrogation, investigation, or punishment of officers on the basis of alleged wrongdoing if a set length of time has elapsed since its alleged occurrence, or since the initiation of the investigation; (vi) prohibits supervisors from interrogating, investigating, or disciplining officers on the basis of anonymous civilian complaints; or (vii) requires arbitration of disputes related to disciplinary penalties or termination.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102743D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy
- 01/25/22 House: Assigned sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/08/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/22 House: Reported from Commerce and Energy (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/13/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/28/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 3-N)