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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 1802 By: Dahm
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to public employees; amending 11 O.S.
66	66	2021, Section 51-101, which relates to fire and
67	67	police arbitration; removing certain rights and
68	68	protections; defining term; prohibiting officials
69	69	from entering into certain contracts ; declaring
70	70	certain contracts void; prohibiting the re cognition
71	71	of certain organization s; stating punishment for
72	72	entering into certain contrac ts; amending 70 O.S.
73	73	2021, Section 5-113.1, which relates to relation by
74	74	consanguinity or affinity with school board members
75	75	in employment or contracts; limiting certain voting
76	76	power of board members; repealing 11 O.S. 2021,
77	77	Sections 51-105 and 51-112, which relate to
78	78	collective bargaining by municipal police and fire
79	79	departments; repealing 19 O.S. 2021, Sections 901.30-
80	80	2, 901.30-3, and 901.30-8, which relate to collective
81	81	bargaining within fire protection districts ;
82	82	repealing 70 O.S. 2021, Sections 3-129.8 and 18-
83	83	114.8, which relate to collective bargaining by
84	84	teachers; providing for codification; and declaring
85	85	an emergency.
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91	91	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
92	92	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 11 O.S. 2021, Section 51 -101, is
93	93	amended to read as follows:
94	94	Section 51-101. A. The protection of the public health, safety
95	95	and welfare demands that the permanent members of any paid fire
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147	147	department or police department in any municipality not be accorded
148	148	the right to strike or engage in any work stoppage or slowdown.
149	149	This necessary prohibition does not, however, r equire the denial to
150	150	such employees of other well -recognized rights of labor such as the
151	151	right to organize, to be represented by a collective bargaining
152	152	representative of their choice and the right to bargain collectivel y
153	153	concerning wages, hours and other terms and conditions of
154	154	employment; and such employees shall also have the right to refrain
155	155	from any and all such activities.
156	156	B. It is declared to be the public policy of this state to
157	157	accord to the permanent members of any paid fire department or
158	158	police department in any municipality all of the rights o f labor,
159	159	other than the right to strike or to engage in any work stoppage or
160	160	slowdown, the right to be represented by a collect ive bargaining
161	161	representative of their choice, and the right to bargain
162	162	collectively concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions
163	163	of employment. Nothing in this article shall constitute a grant of
164	164	the right to strike to fire fi ghters or police officers of any
165	165	municipality and such strikes are hereby prohibited.
166	166	Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any person holding
167	167	such a position who, by concerted action with others and without the
168	168	lawful approval of his superior, willfully absent s himself from his
169	169	position or abstains in whole or in part from the full, faithful and
170	170	proper performance of his duties for the purpose of inducing,
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222	222	influencing or coercing a change in the conditions or co mpensation,
223	223	or the rights, privil eges or obligations of employment shall be
224	224	deemed to be on strike but the person, upon request, shall be
225	225	entitled to a determination as to whether he did vi olate the
226	226	provisions of this article. The request shall be filed in writing
227	227	with the officer or body having the powe r to remove or discipline
228	228	such employee within ten (10) days after regular compensation of
229	229	such employee has ceased or other discipline has been imposed. In
230	230	the event of such request, the officer or body s hall within ten (10)
231	231	days after the receipt of such request commence a p roceeding for the
232	232	determination of whether the provisions of this article have been
233	233	violated by the public employee, in accordance with the law and
234	234	regulations appropriate to a proceeding to remove the public
235	235	employee. The proceeding s shall be undertaken without unnecess ary
236	236	delay. The decision of the proceeding shall be made within ten (10)
237	237	days following the conclusion of said heari ng. If the employee
238	238	involved is held to have violat ed this article and his employmen t
239	239	terminated or other discipline impose d, he shall have the right of
240	240	review to the district cour t having jurisdiction of the parties,
241	241	within thirty (30) day s from such decision, for determination
242	242	whether such decision is supported by competent, material and
243	243	substantial evidence on the whole record. To provide for the
244	244	exercise of these rights, a method of arbitration of disputes is
245	245	hereby established.
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297	297	C. It is declared to be the public policy of the State of
298	298	Oklahoma that no person shall be discharged from or denied
299	299	employment as a member of an y paid fire department or police
300	300	department in any munici pality of this state by reason of membership
301	301	or nonmembership in, or the payment or nonpayment of any dues, fees
302	302	or other charges to, an organization of such members for collect ive
303	303	bargaining purposes as herein cont emplated.
304	304	D. The establishment of this method of arbitration shall not,
305	305	however, in any way whatever, be deemed to be a recognition by the
306	306	state of compulsory arbitration as a superior method of settl ing
307	307	labor disputes between employees wh o possess the right to strike and
308	308	their employers, but ra ther shall be deemed to be a recognition
309	309	solely of the necessity to provide some alternative procedure for
310	310	settling disputes where employees must, as a matter of public
311	311	policy, be denied the usual right to strike.
312	312	SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 70 O. S. 2021, Section 5-113.1, is
313	313	amended to read as follows:
314	314	Section 5-113.1. A. Except as otherwise provided in this
315	315	section, no person may be employed or put under co ntract by a school
316	316	district if that person is related to a member of the board of
317	317	education of that school district within the second degree of
318	318	consanguinity or affinity. A teacher or employee already under
319	319	contract to or otherwise employed by the school district at the time
320	320	the relationship is established may continue in said employment.
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372	372	Except as otherwise provided, a board member already serving at the
373	373	time the relationship is established may serve out the term for
374	374	which the member was elected but shal l not be eligible to be a
375	375	candidate for or serve successive terms of office for which the
376	376	member may be elected.
377	377	B. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a board
378	378	member from serving successive terms of office if otherwise eligible
379	379	under the provision of Section 5-113 of this title. No member of
380	380	the board of education who has resign ed from the board before the
381	381	term of the person has expir ed may be reappointed to the board to
382	382	complete the remainder of the term if a teacher or employee related
383	383	to the resigned member of the board within the second degree of
384	384	consanguinity or affinity was put under contract or otherwise
385	385	employed by the school district after the board member resign ed.
386	386	C. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a person
387	387	who is related to a member of the board of education within the
388	388	second degree of consanguinity o r affinity from being employed by
389	389	the school district as a substitute teacher pursuant to the
390	390	provisions of Section 6 -105 of this title or as a temporary
391	391	substitute support employee if the school district has an Average
392	392	Daily Membership (ADM) of less than five thousand (5,000).
393	393	D. The provisions of this section shall not prevent a person
394	394	who is related to a member of the board of education within the
395	395	second degree of consanguinity or affinity from being employed by
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447	447	the school district if the school distric t has an Average Daily
448	448	Membership (ADM) of less than four hundred (400) and the board of
449	449	education has adopted a policy providing for such employment.
450	450	E. Any member of a board of education who is related to a
451	451	teacher or other employee of the di strict within the second degree
452	452	of consanguinity or affinity shall not attend or participate in any
453	453	regular or executive session of the board held to consider any
454	454	personnel matter or litigation relating to said tea cher or employee.
455	455	The member may vote on collective bargaining agreements or the
456	456	renewal of contracts as a gr oup if the vote is necessary to form a
457	457	quorum of the board of education members. If more than one member
458	458	of the board of education is related to a teacher or employee, only
459	459	the minimum number of those members which is necessary to form a
460	460	quorum shall be allowed to vote. Each board of educat ion so
461	461	affected shall adopt a written policy establishing procedures on
462	462	when such a member may vote on the re newal of contracts or
463	463	collective bargaining agreement s.
464	464	F. Any member of a board of education who violates th e
465	465	provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties
466	466	prescribed by Sections 485 and 486 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
467	467	Statutes.
468	468	SECTION 3. NEW LAW A new sec tion of law to be codified
469	469	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 840-2.20E of Title 74, unless
470	470	there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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522	522	A. As used in this section, “labor organization” means any
523	523	organization in which employees participate and that exists in whole
524	524	or in part to deal with one or more employe rs concerning grievances,
525	525	labor disputes, wages, hours of employment, or working conditions.
526	526	B. An official of this state or of a political subdivision of
527	527	this state may not enter int o a collective bargaining contract with
528	528	a labor organization regarding wages, hours, or conditions of
529	529	employment of public employees.
530	530	C. A contract entered into in violation of subsection B of this
531	531	section is void.
532	532	D. An official of th is state or of a political subdivision of
533	533	this state may not recognize a labor organization as the bargaining
534	534	agent for a group of public employees.
535	535	E. Any official of this state or of a political subdivision of
536	536	this state who violates the provisions of this act shall be gu ilty
537	537	of a misdemeanor and subject to removal from office.
538	538	SECTION 4. REPEALER 11 O.S. 2021, Section 51-105, is
539	539	hereby repealed.
540	540	SECTION 5. REPEALER 11 O.S. 2021, Section 51-112, is
541	541	hereby repealed.
542	542	SECTION 6. REPEALER 19 O.S. 2021, Section 901.30-2, is
543	543	hereby repealed.
544	544	SECTION 7. REPEALER 19 O.S. 2021, Section 901.30-3, is
545	545	hereby repealed.
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597	597	SECTION 8. REPEALER 19 O.S. 2021, Section 901.30-8, is
598	598	hereby repealed.
599	599	SECTION 9. REPEALER 70 O.S. 2021, Section 3-129.8, is
600	600	hereby repealed.
601	601	SECTION 10. REPEALER 70 O.S. 2021, Section 18-114.8, is
602	602	hereby repealed.
603	603	SECTION 11. It being immediately necessary f or the preservation
604	604	of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
605	605	declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
606	606	be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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