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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 636
To provide collective bargaining rights for public safety officers employed
by States or their political subdivisions, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY19, 2025
Mr. H
ICKENLOOPER(for himself and Ms. HASSAN) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To provide collective bargaining rights for public safety offi-
cers employed by States or their political subdivisions,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Public Safety Em-4
ployer-Employee Cooperation Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. PURPOSE AND POLICY. 6
Congress declares that the following is the policy of 7
the United States: 8
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(1) Labor-management relationships and part-1
nerships are based on trust, mutual respect, open 2
communication, bilateral consensual problem solving, 3
and shared accountability. Labor-management co-4
operation fully uses the strengths of both parties to 5
best serve the interests of the public: operating as a 6
team to carry out the public safety mission in a 7
quality work environment. In many public safety 8
agencies, it is the labor organization that provides 9
the institutional stability as elected leaders and ap-10
pointees come and go. 11
(2) State and local public safety officers play an 12
essential role in the efforts of the United States to 13
detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist attacks and 14
to respond to natural disasters, hazardous materials, 15
and other mass casualty incidents. State and local 16
public safety officers, as first responders, are a com-17
ponent of the National Incident Management Sys-18
tem, developed by the Department of Homeland Se-19
curity to coordinate response to and recovery from 20
terrorism, major natural disasters, and other major 21
emergencies. Public safety employer-employee co-22
operation is essential in meeting these needs and is, 23
therefore, in the national interest. 24
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(3) The Federal Government needs to encour-1
age conciliation, mediation, and arbitration to aid 2
and encourage public safety employers and the rep-3
resentatives of their employees to reach and main-4
tain agreements concerning rates of pay, hours, and 5
working conditions and to make all reasonable ef-6
forts through negotiations to settle their differences 7
by mutual agreement reached through collective bar-8
gaining or by such methods as may be provided for 9
in any applicable agreement for the settlement of 10
disputes. 11
(4) The absence of adequate cooperation be-12
tween public safety employers and employees has im-13
plications for the security of employees and can af-14
fect interstate and intrastate commerce. The lack of 15
such labor-management cooperation can detrimen-16
tally impact the upgrading of law enforcement, fire, 17
and emergency medical services of local commu-18
nities, the health and well-being of public safety offi-19
cers, and the morale of law enforcement, fire, and 20
emergency medical service departments. Addition-21
ally, these factors could have significant commercial 22
repercussions. Moreover, providing minimal stand-23
ards for collective bargaining negotiations in the 24
public safety sector can prevent industrial strife be-25
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tween labor and management that interferes with 1
the normal flow of commerce. 2
(5) Many States and localities already provide 3
public safety officers with collective bargaining 4
rights comparable to or greater than the rights and 5
responsibilities set forth in this Act, and such State 6
and local laws should be respected. 7
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 8
In this Act: 9
(1) A
UTHORITY.—The term ‘‘Authority’’ means 10
the Federal Labor Relations Authority. 11
(2) C
ONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEE .—The term 12
‘‘confidential employee’’, with respect to the applica-13
tion of this Act in a State— 14
(A) has the meaning given such term (or 15
a substantially equivalent term) under any ap-16
plicable State law of such State on the date of 17
enactment of this Act; or 18
(B) if no such applicable State law is in ef-19
fect in such State, means an individual, em-20
ployed by a public safety employer, who— 21
(i) is designated as confidential; and 22
(ii) is an individual who routinely as-23
sists, in a confidential capacity, any super-24
visory employee or management employee. 25
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(3) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EM -1
PLOYEE.—The term ‘‘emergency medical services 2
employee’’ means an individual who provides out-of- 3
hospital emergency medical care, including an emer-4
gency medical technician, paramedic, or first re-5
sponder. 6
(4) E
MPLOY.—The term ‘‘employ’’ has the 7
meaning given the term in section 3 of the Fair 8
Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203). 9
(5) F
IREFIGHTER.—The term ‘‘firefighter’’ has 10
the meaning given the term ‘‘employee in fire protec-11
tion activities’’ in section 3 of the Fair Labor Stand-12
ards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203). 13
(6) L
ABOR ORGANIZATION .—The term ‘‘labor 14
organization’’ means an organization of any kind, in 15
which public safety officers participate and which ex-16
ists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing 17
with a public safety employer concerning grievances, 18
conditions of employment, and related matters. 19
(7) L
AW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER .—The term 20
‘‘law enforcement officer’’ has the meaning given 21
such term in section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime 22
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 23
10284). 24
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(8) MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEE .—The term 1
‘‘management employee’’, with respect to the appli-2
cation of this Act in a State— 3
(A) has the meaning given such term (or 4
a substantially equivalent term) under any ap-5
plicable State law of such State on the date of 6
enactment of this Act; or 7
(B) if no such applicable State law is in ef-8
fect in such State, means an individual em-9
ployed by a public safety employer in a position 10
that requires or authorizes the individual to for-11
mulate, determine, or influence the policies of 12
the public safety employer. 13
(9) P
ERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-14
dividual or a labor organization. 15
(10) P
UBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYER .— 16
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘public safe-17
ty employer’’ means any State, or political sub-18
division of a State, that employs a public safety 19
officer. 20
(B) A
PPLICABILITY.—For purposes of this 21
Act, a public safety employer shall be consid-22
ered to be engaged in commerce or in an indus-23
try or activity affecting commerce. 24
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(11) PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER .—The term 1
‘‘public safety officer’’— 2
(A) means an individual employed by a 3
public safety employer who is a law enforcement 4
officer, a firefighter, or an emergency medical 5
services employee; 6
(B) includes an individual who is tempo-7
rarily transferred to a supervisory or manage-8
ment position; and 9
(C) except as provided in subparagraph 10
(B), does not include— 11
(i) a supervisory employee; 12
(ii) a management employee; or 13
(iii) a confidential employee. 14
(12) S
TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 15
the several States of the United States, the District 16
of Columbia, and any territory or possession of the 17
United States. 18
(13) S
UBSTANTIALLY PROVIDES .—The term 19
‘‘substantially provides’’, when used with respect to 20
the rights and responsibilities described in section 21
4(b), means providing rights and responsibilities 22
that are comparable to or greater than each right 23
and responsibility described in such section. 24
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(14) SUPERVISORY EMPLOYEE .—The term ‘‘su-1
pervisory employee’’, with respect to the application 2
of this Act in a State— 3
(A) has the meaning given such term (or 4
a substantially equivalent term) under any ap-5
plicable State law of such State on the date of 6
enactment of this Act; or 7
(B) if no such applicable State law is in ef-8
fect in such State, an individual, employed by 9
a public safety employer, who— 10
(i) has the authority in the interest of 11
the public safety employer, if the exercise 12
of such authority is not merely routine or 13
clerical in nature but requires the con-14
sistent exercise of independent judgment, 15
to— 16
(I) hire, direct, assign, promote, 17
reward, transfer, furlough, lay off, re-18
call, suspend, discipline, or remove 19
public safety officers; 20
(II) adjust the grievances of pub-21
lic safety officers; or 22
(III) effectively recommend any 23
action described in subclause (I) or 24
(II); and 25
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(ii) devotes a majority of time at work 1
to exercising such authority. 2
(15) U
NFAIR LABOR PRACTICE .—The term 3
‘‘unfair labor practice’’ means a practice described 4
in section 7116 of title 5, United States Code, ex-5
cept that, in applying such section— 6
(A) ‘‘public safety officer’’ shall be sub-7
stituted for ‘‘employee’’; 8
(B) ‘‘public safety employer’’ shall be sub-9
stituted for ‘‘agency’’; and 10
(C) ‘‘this Act’’ shall be substituted for 11
‘‘this chapter’’. 12
SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBIL-13
ITIES. 14
(a) D
ETERMINATION.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 16
after the date of enactment of this Act (except as 17
provided in paragraph (4)(B)), the Authority shall 18
make a determination for each State as to whether 19
a State substantially provides for each of the rights 20
and responsibilities described in subsection (b). 21
(2) C
ONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONAL OPIN -22
IONS.—In making the determination described in 23
paragraph (1), the Authority shall consider the opin-24
ions of affected public safety employers and labor or-25
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ganizations. In the case where the Authority is noti-1
fied by an affected public safety employer and labor 2
organization that both parties agree that the law ap-3
plicable to such public safety employer and labor or-4
ganization substantially provides for the rights and 5
responsibilities described in subsection (b), the Au-6
thority shall give such agreement weight to the max-7
imum extent practicable in making the Authority’s 8
determination under paragraph (1). 9
(3) L
IMITED CRITERIA.—In making the deter-10
mination described in paragraph (1), the Authority 11
shall be limited to the application of the criteria de-12
scribed in subsection (b). 13
(4) S
UBSEQUENT DETERMINATIONS .— 14
(A) I
N GENERAL.—A determination made 15
pursuant to paragraph (1) shall remain in ef-16
fect unless and until the Authority issues a sub-17
sequent determination, in accordance with the 18
procedures set forth in subparagraph (B). 19
(B) P
ROCEDURES FOR SUBSEQUENT DE -20
TERMINATIONS.—A public safety employer or a 21
labor organization may submit to the Authority 22
a written request for a subsequent determina-23
tion with respect to whether a material change 24
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of State law (or an interpretation of such law) 1
has occurred. 2
(C) I
SSUANCE OF SUBSEQUENT DETER -3
MINATION.—If satisfied that a material change 4
in State law or its interpretation has occurred, 5
the Authority shall issue a subsequent deter-6
mination under paragraph (1) not later than 30 7
days after receipt of such request. 8
(5) E
XCEPTION.—The Authority shall not make 9
a determination under paragraph (1) that the laws 10
of a State do not substantially provide for each of 11
the rights and responsibilities described in sub-12
section (b) on the basis that relevant State laws— 13
(A) permit an employee to appear on the 14
employee’s own behalf with respect to the em-15
ployee’s employment relations with the public 16
safety employer involved; 17
(B) do not apply to a political subdivision 18
of the State if such political subdivision— 19
(i) has a population of fewer than 20
5,000 individuals; or 21
(ii) employs fewer than 25 full-time 22
employees (excluding any individual elected 23
by popular vote or appointed to serve on a 24
board or commission); or 25
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(C) do not require bargaining with respect 1
to pension, retirement, or health benefits. 2
(6) J
UDICIAL REVIEW.—Any person or public 3
safety employer aggrieved by a determination of the 4
Authority under paragraph (1) may, during the 60- 5
day period beginning on the date on which the deter-6
mination was made, petition any United States 7
Court of Appeals in the circuit in which the person 8
or public safety employer resides or transacts busi-9
ness or in the Court of Appeals for the District of 10
Columbia Circuit, for judicial review. 11
(b) R
IGHTS ANDRESPONSIBILITIES.—The rights and 12
responsibilities described under this subsection are the fol-13
lowing: 14
(1) A right of public safety officers to form and 15
join a labor organization— 16
(A) which may exclude any management 17
employee, supervisory employee, or confidential 18
employee, and 19
(B) that is, or seeks to be, recognized as 20
the exclusive bargaining representative of such 21
public safety officers. 22
(2) A requirement that any public safety em-23
ployer— 24
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(A) recognize the labor organization of its 1
public safety officers (freely chosen by a major-2
ity of the public safety officers); 3
(B) agree to bargain with such labor orga-4
nization; and 5
(C) commit any agreements with such 6
labor organization to writing in a contract or 7
memorandum of understanding. 8
(3) A right of public safety officers to bargain 9
with respect to hours, wages, and terms and condi-10
tions of employment. 11
(4) A right to binding interest arbitration as a 12
mechanism to resolve an impasse in collective bar-13
gaining negotiations. 14
(5) A right to enforcement of all rights, respon-15
sibilities, and protections enumerated in this sub-16
section, and of any written contract or memorandum 17
of understanding between a labor organization and 18
a public safety employer, through— 19
(A) a State administrative agency, if the 20
State so chooses; or 21
(B) any court of competent jurisdiction. 22
(c) C
OMPLIANCEWITHREQUIREMENTS.—If the Au-23
thority determines under subsection (a)(1) that a State 24
substantially provides each of the rights and responsibil-25
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ities described in subsection (b), then subsection (d) shall 1
not apply and this Act shall not preempt the laws of such 2
State. 3
(d) F
AILURETOMEETREQUIREMENTS.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—If the Authority determines 5
under subsection (a)(1) that a State does not sub-6
stantially provide for the rights and responsibilities 7
described in subsection (b), then such State shall be 8
subject to the regulations and procedures described 9
in section 5 beginning on the later of— 10
(A) the date that is 2 years after the date 11
of enactment of this Act; 12
(B) the date that is the last day of the 13
first regular session of the legislature of the 14
State that begins after the date the Authority 15
makes a determination under subsection (a)(1); 16
or 17
(C) in the case of a State receiving a sub-18
sequent determination under subsection (a)(4), 19
the date that is the last day of the first regular 20
session of the legislature of the State that be-21
gins after the date the Authority made the de-22
termination. 23
(2) P
ARTIAL FAILURE.—If the Authority deter-24
mines under subsection (a)(1) that a State does not 25
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substantially provide for the rights and responsibil-1
ities described in subsection (b) because the State 2
law substantially provides for such rights and re-3
sponsibilities for certain categories of public safety 4
officers covered by this Act but not others, the Au-5
thority shall identify those categories of public safety 6
officers that shall be subject to the regulations and 7
procedures described in section 5, pursuant to sec-8
tion 8(b)(3) and beginning on the appropriate date 9
described in paragraph (1), and those categories of 10
public safety officers that shall remain solely subject 11
to State law with respect to the rights and respon-12
sibilities described in subsection (b). 13
SEC. 5. ROLE OF FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY. 14
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 15
date of enactment of this Act, the Authority shall issue 16
regulations, in accordance with the rights and responsibil-17
ities described in section 4(b), establishing collective bar-18
gaining procedures for public safety employers and public 19
safety officers that substantially provide for the minimum 20
standards described in section 4(b) for States described 21
in section 4(d). 22
(b) R
OLE OF THEFEDERALLABORRELATIONSAU-23
THORITY.—In carrying out subsection (a), the Authority 24
shall— 25
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(1) determine the appropriateness of units for 1
labor organization representation; 2
(2) supervise or conduct elections to determine 3
whether a labor organization has been chosen as an 4
exclusive representative by a voting majority of the 5
public safety officers in an appropriate unit; 6
(3) resolve issues relating to the duty to bar-7
gain in good faith; 8
(4) conduct hearings and resolve complaints of 9
unfair labor practices; 10
(5) resolve exceptions to the awards of arbitra-11
tors; 12
(6) protect the right of each employee to form, 13
join, or assist any labor organization or to refrain 14
from any such activity, freely and without fear of 15
penalty or reprisal, and protect each employee in the 16
exercise of such right; and 17
(7) take such other actions as are necessary 18
and appropriate to effectively administer this Act, 19
including issuing subpoenas requiring the attendance 20
and testimony of witnesses and the production of 21
documentary or other evidence from any place in the 22
United States, and administering oaths, taking or 23
ordering the taking of depositions, ordering re-24
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sponses to written interrogatories, and receiving and 1
examining witnesses. 2
(c) E
NFORCEMENT.— 3
(1) A
UTHORITY TO PETITION COURT .—The Au-4
thority may petition any United States Court of Ap-5
peals with jurisdiction over the parties, or the 6
United States Court of Appeals for the District of 7
Columbia Circuit, to enforce any final orders under 8
this section, and for appropriate temporary relief or 9
a restraining order. 10
(2) P
RIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION .—Unless the 11
Authority has filed a petition for enforcement as 12
provided in paragraph (1) and except as provided in 13
section 8(b)(4) with respect to States, any party 14
may file suit in any appropriate district court of the 15
United States to enforce compliance with the regula-16
tions issued by the Authority pursuant to this sec-17
tion, or to enforce compliance with any order issued 18
by the Authority pursuant to this section. 19
SEC. 6. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS PROHIBITED. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), a public 21
safety employer, public safety officer, or labor organization 22
may not engage in a lockout, sickout, work slowdown, 23
strike, or any other organized job action that will measur-24
ably disrupt the delivery of emergency services and is de-25
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signed to compel a public safety employer, public safety 1
officer, or labor organization to agree to the terms of a 2
proposed contract. 3
(b) N
OPREEMPTION.—Nothing in this section shall 4
be construed to preempt any law of any State or political 5
subdivision of any State with respect to strikes by public 6
safety officers. 7
SEC. 7. EXISTING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS AND 8
AGREEMENTS. 9
The enactment of this Act shall not invalidate any 10
certification, recognition, result of an election, collective 11
bargaining agreement, or memorandum of understanding 12
that has been issued, approved, or ratified by any public 13
employee relations board or commission or by any State 14
or political subdivision or its agents and is in effect on 15
the day before the date of enactment of this Act. 16
SEC. 8. CONSTRUCTION AND COMPLIANCE. 17
(a) C
ONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act shall be 18
construed— 19
(1) to preempt or limit the remedies, rights, 20
and procedures of any law of any State or political 21
subdivision of any State that provides comparable or 22
greater rights and responsibilities than the rights 23
and responsibilities described in section 4(b); or 24
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(2) to prevent a State from enforcing any law 1
that prohibits public safety employers and labor or-2
ganizations from negotiating provisions in a labor 3
agreement that require labor organization member-4
ship or payment of labor organization fees as a con-5
dition of employment. 6
(b) C
OMPLIANCE.— 7
(1) A
CTIONS OF STATES.—Nothing in this Act 8
or the regulations promulgated under this Act shall 9
be construed to require a State to rescind or pre-10
empt the laws or ordinances of any of the State’s 11
political subdivisions if such laws provide rights and 12
responsibilities for public safety officers that are 13
comparable to or greater than the rights and respon-14
sibilities described in section 4(b). 15
(2) A
CTIONS OF THE AUTHORITY .—Nothing in 16
this Act or the regulations promulgated under this 17
Act shall be construed to preempt— 18
(A) the laws or ordinances of any State or 19
political subdivision of a State, if such laws pro-20
vide collective bargaining rights for public safe-21
ty officers that are comparable to or greater 22
than the rights enumerated in section 4(b); 23
(B) the laws or ordinances of any State or 24
political subdivision of a State that provide for 25
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the rights and responsibilities described in sec-1
tion 4(b) with respect to certain categories of 2
public safety officers covered by this Act solely 3
because such rights and responsibilities have 4
not been extended to other categories of public 5
safety officers covered by this Act; or 6
(C) the laws or ordinances of any State or 7
political subdivision of a State that provide for 8
the rights and responsibilities described in sec-9
tion 4(b), solely because such laws or ordi-10
nances provide that a contract or memorandum 11
of understanding between a public safety em-12
ployer and a labor organization must be pre-13
sented to a legislative body as part of the proc-14
ess for approving such contract or memo-15
randum of understanding. 16
(3) L
IMITED ENFORCEMENT POWER .—In the 17
case of a law described in paragraph (2)(B), the Au-18
thority shall only exercise the powers provided in 19
section 5 with respect to those categories of public 20
safety officers who have not been afforded the rights 21
and responsibilities described in section 4(b). 22
(4) E
XCLUSIVE ENFORCEMENT PROVISION .— 23
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, and 24
in the absence of a waiver of a State’s sovereign im-25
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munity, the Authority shall have the exclusive power 1
to enforce the provisions of this Act with respect to 2
employees of a State. 3
SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 4
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 5
as may be necessary to carry out this Act. 6
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