Full Text of HB0259 98th General Assembly
HB0259ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez Filed: 4/12/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 259
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 259 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 3 as follows: | 6 | | (5 ILCS 315/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 1603)
| 7 | | Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | 8 | | context
otherwise requires:
| 9 | | (a) "Board" means the Illinois
Labor Relations Board or, | 10 | | with respect to a matter over which the
jurisdiction of the | 11 | | Board is assigned to the State Panel or the Local Panel
under | 12 | | Section 5, the panel having jurisdiction over the matter.
| 13 | | (b) "Collective bargaining" means bargaining over terms | 14 | | and conditions
of employment, including hours, wages, and other | 15 | | conditions of employment,
as detailed in Section 7 and which | 16 | | are not excluded by Section 4.
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| 1 | | (c) "Confidential employee" means an employee who, in the | 2 | | regular course
of his or her duties, assists and acts in a | 3 | | confidential capacity to persons
who formulate, determine, and | 4 | | effectuate management policies with regard
to labor relations | 5 | | or who, in the regular course of his or her duties, has
| 6 | | authorized access to information relating to the effectuation
| 7 | | or review of the employer's collective bargaining policies.
| 8 | | (d) "Craft employees" means skilled journeymen, crafts | 9 | | persons, and their
apprentices and helpers.
| 10 | | (e) "Essential services employees" means those public | 11 | | employees
performing functions so essential that the | 12 | | interruption or termination of
the function will constitute a | 13 | | clear and present danger to the health and
safety of the | 14 | | persons in the affected community.
| 15 | | (f) "Exclusive representative", except with respect to | 16 | | non-State fire
fighters and paramedics employed by fire | 17 | | departments and fire protection
districts, non-State peace | 18 | | officers, and peace officers in the
Department of State Police, | 19 | | means the labor organization that has
been (i) designated by | 20 | | the Board as the representative of a majority of public
| 21 | | employees in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance with | 22 | | the procedures
contained in this Act, (ii) historically
| 23 | | recognized by the State of Illinois or
any political | 24 | | subdivision of the State before July 1, 1984
(the effective | 25 | | date of this
Act) as the exclusive representative of the | 26 | | employees in an appropriate
bargaining unit, (iii) after July |
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| 1 | | 1, 1984 (the
effective date of this Act) recognized by an
| 2 | | employer upon evidence, acceptable to the Board, that the labor
| 3 | | organization has been designated as the exclusive | 4 | | representative by a
majority of the employees in an appropriate | 5 | | bargaining unit;
(iv) recognized as the exclusive | 6 | | representative of personal care attendants
or personal
| 7 | | assistants under Executive Order 2003-8 prior to the effective | 8 | | date of this
amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly, and | 9 | | the organization shall be considered to
be the
exclusive | 10 | | representative of the personal care attendants or personal | 11 | | assistants
as defined
in this Section; or (v) recognized as the | 12 | | exclusive representative of child and day care home providers, | 13 | | including licensed and license exempt providers, pursuant to an | 14 | | election held under Executive Order 2005-1 prior to the | 15 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | 16 | | Assembly, and the organization shall be considered to be the | 17 | | exclusive representative of the child and day care home | 18 | | providers as defined in this Section.
| 19 | | With respect to non-State fire fighters and paramedics | 20 | | employed by fire
departments and fire protection districts, | 21 | | non-State peace officers, and
peace officers in the Department | 22 | | of State Police,
"exclusive representative" means the labor | 23 | | organization that has
been (i) designated by the Board as the | 24 | | representative of a majority of peace
officers or fire fighters | 25 | | in an appropriate bargaining unit in accordance
with the | 26 | | procedures contained in this Act, (ii)
historically recognized
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| 1 | | by the State of Illinois or any political subdivision of the | 2 | | State before
January 1, 1986 (the effective date of this | 3 | | amendatory Act of 1985) as the exclusive
representative by a | 4 | | majority of the peace officers or fire fighters in an
| 5 | | appropriate bargaining unit, or (iii) after January 1,
1986 | 6 | | (the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1985) recognized | 7 | | by an employer upon evidence, acceptable to the
Board, that the | 8 | | labor organization has been designated as the exclusive
| 9 | | representative by a majority of the peace officers or fire | 10 | | fighters in an
appropriate bargaining unit.
| 11 | | Where a historical pattern of representation exists for the | 12 | | workers of a water system that was owned by a public utility, | 13 | | as defined in Section 3-105 of the Public Utilities Act, prior | 14 | | to becoming certified employees of a municipality or | 15 | | municipalities once the municipality or municipalities have | 16 | | acquired the water system as authorized in Section 11-124-5 of | 17 | | the Illinois Municipal Code, the Board shall find the labor | 18 | | organization that has historically represented the workers to | 19 | | be the exclusive representative under this Act, and shall find | 20 | | the unit represented by the exclusive representative to be the | 21 | | appropriate unit. | 22 | | (g) "Fair share agreement" means an agreement between the | 23 | | employer and
an employee organization under which all or any of | 24 | | the employees in a
collective bargaining unit are required to | 25 | | pay their proportionate share of
the costs of the collective | 26 | | bargaining process, contract administration, and
pursuing |
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| 1 | | matters affecting wages, hours, and other conditions of | 2 | | employment,
but not to exceed the amount of dues uniformly | 3 | | required of members. The
amount certified by the exclusive | 4 | | representative shall not include any fees
for contributions | 5 | | related to the election or support of any candidate for
| 6 | | political office. Nothing in this subsection (g) shall
preclude | 7 | | an employee from making
voluntary political contributions in | 8 | | conjunction with his or her fair share
payment.
| 9 | | (g-1) "Fire fighter" means, for the purposes of this Act | 10 | | only, any
person who has been or is hereafter appointed to a | 11 | | fire department or fire
protection district or employed by a | 12 | | state university and sworn or
commissioned to perform fire | 13 | | fighter duties or paramedic duties, except that the
following | 14 | | persons are not included: part-time fire fighters,
auxiliary, | 15 | | reserve or voluntary fire fighters, including paid on-call fire
| 16 | | fighters, clerks and dispatchers or other civilian employees of | 17 | | a fire
department or fire protection district who are not | 18 | | routinely expected to
perform fire fighter duties, or elected | 19 | | officials.
| 20 | | (g-2) "General Assembly of the State of Illinois" means the
| 21 | | legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois, | 22 | | as provided
for under Article IV of the Constitution of the | 23 | | State of Illinois, and
includes but is not limited to the House | 24 | | of Representatives, the Senate,
the Speaker of the House of | 25 | | Representatives, the Minority Leader of the
House of | 26 | | Representatives, the President of the Senate, the Minority |
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| 1 | | Leader
of the Senate, the Joint Committee on Legislative | 2 | | Support Services and any
legislative support services agency | 3 | | listed in the Legislative Commission
Reorganization Act of | 4 | | 1984.
| 5 | | (h) "Governing body" means, in the case of the State, the | 6 | | State Panel of
the Illinois Labor Relations Board, the Director | 7 | | of the Department of Central
Management Services, and the | 8 | | Director of the Department of Labor; the county
board in the | 9 | | case of a county; the corporate authorities in the case of a
| 10 | | municipality; and the appropriate body authorized to provide | 11 | | for expenditures
of its funds in the case of any other unit of | 12 | | government.
| 13 | | (i) "Labor organization" means any organization in which | 14 | | public employees
participate and that exists for the purpose, | 15 | | in whole or in part, of dealing
with a public employer | 16 | | concerning wages, hours, and other terms and conditions
of | 17 | | employment, including the settlement of grievances.
| 18 | | (j) "Managerial employee" means an individual who is | 19 | | engaged
predominantly in executive and management functions | 20 | | and is charged with the
responsibility of directing the | 21 | | effectuation of management policies
and practices.
| 22 | | (k) "Peace officer" means, for the purposes of this Act | 23 | | only, any persons who have been or are hereafter appointed to a | 24 | | coroner's office and any
persons who have been or are hereafter | 25 | | appointed to a police force,
department, or agency and sworn or | 26 | | commissioned to perform police duties,
except that the |
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| 1 | | following persons are not
included: part-time police
officers, | 2 | | special police officers, auxiliary police as defined by Section
| 3 | | 3.1-30-20 of the Illinois Municipal Code, night watchmen, | 4 | | "merchant police",
court security officers as defined by | 5 | | Section 3-6012.1 of the Counties
Code,
temporary employees, | 6 | | traffic guards or wardens, civilian parking meter and
parking | 7 | | facilities personnel or other individuals specially appointed | 8 | | to
aid or direct traffic at or near schools or public functions | 9 | | or to aid in
civil defense or disaster, parking enforcement | 10 | | employees who are not
commissioned as peace officers and who | 11 | | are not armed and who are not
routinely expected to effect | 12 | | arrests, parking lot attendants, clerks and
dispatchers or | 13 | | other civilian employees of a police department who are not
| 14 | | routinely expected to effect arrests, or elected officials.
| 15 | | (l) "Person" includes one or more individuals, labor | 16 | | organizations, public
employees, associations, corporations, | 17 | | legal representatives, trustees,
trustees in bankruptcy, | 18 | | receivers, or the State of Illinois or any political
| 19 | | subdivision of the State or governing body, but does not | 20 | | include the General
Assembly of the State of Illinois or any | 21 | | individual employed by the General
Assembly of the State of | 22 | | Illinois.
| 23 | | (m) "Professional employee" means any employee engaged in | 24 | | work predominantly
intellectual and varied in character rather | 25 | | than routine mental, manual,
mechanical or physical work; | 26 | | involving the consistent exercise of discretion
and adjustment |
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| 1 | | in its performance; of such a character that the output | 2 | | produced
or the result accomplished cannot be standardized in | 3 | | relation to a given
period of time; and requiring advanced | 4 | | knowledge in a field of science or
learning customarily | 5 | | acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual
| 6 | | instruction and study in an institution of higher learning or a | 7 | | hospital,
as distinguished from a general academic education or | 8 | | from apprenticeship
or from training in the performance of | 9 | | routine mental, manual, or physical
processes; or any employee | 10 | | who has completed the courses of specialized
intellectual | 11 | | instruction and study prescribed in this subsection (m) and is
| 12 | | performing related
work under the supervision of a professional | 13 | | person to qualify to become
a professional employee as defined | 14 | | in this subsection (m).
| 15 | | (n) "Public employee" or "employee", for the purposes of | 16 | | this Act, means
any individual employed by a public employer, | 17 | | including (i) interns and residents
at public hospitals, (ii) | 18 | | as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 19 | | General
Assembly, but not
before, personal care attendants and | 20 | | personal assistants working under the Home
Services
Program | 21 | | under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, | 22 | | subject to
the
limitations set forth in this Act and in the | 23 | | Disabled Persons Rehabilitation
Act,
(iii) as of the effective | 24 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, but | 25 | | not before, child and day care home providers participating in | 26 | | the child care assistance program under Section 9A-11 of the |
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| 1 | | Illinois Public Aid Code, subject to the limitations set forth | 2 | | in this Act and in Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid | 3 | | Code, and (iv) as of the effective date of this amendatory Act | 4 | | of the 97th General Assembly, but not before except as | 5 | | otherwise provided in this subsection (n), home care and home | 6 | | health workers who function as personal care attendants, | 7 | | personal assistants, and individual maintenance home health | 8 | | workers and who also work under the Home Services Program under | 9 | | Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, no matter | 10 | | whether the State provides those services through direct | 11 | | fee-for-service arrangements, with the assistance of a managed | 12 | | care organization or other intermediary, or otherwise, but | 13 | | excluding all of the following: employees of the
General | 14 | | Assembly of the State of Illinois; elected officials; executive
| 15 | | heads of a department; members of boards or commissions; the | 16 | | Executive
Inspectors General; any special Executive Inspectors | 17 | | General; employees of each
Office of an Executive Inspector | 18 | | General;
commissioners and employees of the Executive Ethics | 19 | | Commission; the Auditor
General's Inspector General; employees | 20 | | of the Office of the Auditor General's
Inspector General; the | 21 | | Legislative Inspector General; any special Legislative
| 22 | | Inspectors General; employees of the Office
of the Legislative | 23 | | Inspector General;
commissioners and employees of the | 24 | | Legislative Ethics Commission;
employees
of any
agency, board | 25 | | or commission created by this Act; employees appointed to
State | 26 | | positions of a temporary or emergency nature; all employees of |
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| 1 | | school
districts and higher education institutions except | 2 | | firefighters and peace
officers employed
by a state university | 3 | | and except peace officers employed by a school district in its | 4 | | own police department in existence on the effective date of | 5 | | this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly; managerial | 6 | | employees; short-term employees;
confidential employees; | 7 | | independent contractors; and supervisors except as
provided in | 8 | | this Act.
| 9 | | Home care
and home health workers who function as personal | 10 | | care attendants, personal assistants, and individual | 11 | | maintenance home health workers and who also work under the | 12 | | Home Services Program under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons | 13 | | Rehabilitation Act shall not be considered
public
employees for | 14 | | any purposes not specifically provided for in Public Act 93-204 | 15 | | or this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, including | 16 | | but not limited to, purposes of vicarious
liability in tort
and | 17 | | purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. | 18 | | Home care and home health workers who function as personal
care
| 19 | | attendants, personal assistants, and individual maintenance | 20 | | home health workers and who also work under the Home Services | 21 | | Program under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation | 22 | | Act shall not be covered by the State Employees
Group
Insurance | 23 | | Act of 1971 (5 ILCS 375/).
| 24 | | Child and day care home providers shall not be considered | 25 | | public employees for any purposes not specifically provided for | 26 | | in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, including |
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| 1 | | but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort and | 2 | | purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. | 3 | | Child and day care home providers shall not be covered by the | 4 | | State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. | 5 | | Notwithstanding Section 9, subsection (c), or any other | 6 | | provisions of
this Act, all peace officers above the rank of | 7 | | captain in
municipalities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants | 8 | | shall be excluded
from this Act.
| 9 | | (o) Except as otherwise in subsection (o-5), "public | 10 | | employer" or "employer" means the State of Illinois; any
| 11 | | political subdivision of the State, unit of local government or | 12 | | school
district; authorities including departments, divisions, | 13 | | bureaus, boards,
commissions, or other agencies of the | 14 | | foregoing entities; and any person
acting within the scope of | 15 | | his or her authority, express or implied, on
behalf of those | 16 | | entities in dealing with its employees.
As of the effective | 17 | | date of the amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly,
but | 18 | | not
before, the State of Illinois shall be considered the | 19 | | employer of the personal
care
attendants and personal | 20 | | assistants working under the Home Services Program
under
| 21 | | Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, subject | 22 | | to the
limitations set forth
in this Act and in the Disabled | 23 | | Persons Rehabilitation Act. As of the effective date of this | 24 | | amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, but not before | 25 | | except as otherwise provided in this subsection (o), the State | 26 | | shall be considered the employer of home care and home health |
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| 1 | | workers who function as personal care attendants, personal | 2 | | assistants, and individual maintenance home health workers and | 3 | | who also work under the Home Services Program under Section 3 | 4 | | of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, no matter whether | 5 | | the State provides those services through direct | 6 | | fee-for-service arrangements, with the assistance of a managed | 7 | | care organization or other intermediary, or otherwise, but | 8 | | subject to the limitations set forth in this Act and the | 9 | | Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act. The State shall not
be
| 10 | | considered to be the employer of home care and home health | 11 | | workers who function as personal care attendants, personal
| 12 | | assistants, and individual maintenance home health workers and | 13 | | who also work under the Home Services Program under Section 3 | 14 | | of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act, for any
purposes | 15 | | not specifically provided for in Public Act 93-204 or this | 16 | | amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, including but not | 17 | | limited to, purposes of vicarious liability in tort
and
| 18 | | purposes of statutory retirement or health insurance benefits. | 19 | | Home care and home health workers who function as personal care
| 20 | | attendants,
personal assistants, and individual maintenance | 21 | | home health workers and who also work under the Home Services | 22 | | Program under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation | 23 | | Act shall not be covered by the State Employees Group
Insurance | 24 | | Act of 1971
(5 ILCS 375/).
As of the effective date of this | 25 | | amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly but not before, the | 26 | | State of Illinois shall be considered the employer of the day |
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| 1 | | and child care home providers participating in the child care | 2 | | assistance program under Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public | 3 | | Aid Code, subject to the limitations set forth in this Act and | 4 | | in Section 9A-11 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. The State | 5 | | shall not be considered to be the employer of child and day | 6 | | care home providers for any purposes not specifically provided | 7 | | for in this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, | 8 | | including but not limited to, purposes of vicarious liability | 9 | | in tort and purposes of statutory retirement or health | 10 | | insurance benefits. Child and day care home providers shall not | 11 | | be covered by the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. | 12 | | "Public employer" or
"employer" as used in this Act, | 13 | | however, does not
mean and shall not include the General | 14 | | Assembly of the State of Illinois,
the Executive Ethics | 15 | | Commission, the Offices of the Executive Inspectors
General, | 16 | | the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Office of the | 17 | | Legislative
Inspector General, the Office of the Auditor | 18 | | General's Inspector General,
and educational employers or | 19 | | employers as defined in the Illinois
Educational Labor | 20 | | Relations Act, except with respect to a state university in
its | 21 | | employment of firefighters and peace officers and except with | 22 | | respect to a school district in the employment of peace | 23 | | officers in its own police department in existence on the | 24 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 25 | | Assembly. County boards and county
sheriffs shall be
designated | 26 | | as joint or co-employers of county peace officers appointed
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| 1 | | under the authority of a county sheriff. Nothing in this | 2 | | subsection
(o) shall be construed
to prevent the State Panel or | 3 | | the Local Panel
from determining that employers are joint or | 4 | | co-employers.
| 5 | | (o-5) With respect to
wages, fringe
benefits, hours, | 6 | | holidays, vacations, proficiency
examinations, sick leave, and | 7 | | other conditions of
employment, the public employer of public | 8 | | employees who are court reporters, as
defined in the Court | 9 | | Reporters Act, shall be determined as
follows:
| 10 | | (1) For court reporters employed by the Cook County | 11 | | Judicial
Circuit, the chief judge of the Cook County | 12 | | Circuit
Court is the public employer and employer | 13 | | representative.
| 14 | | (2) For court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th, | 15 | | 19th, and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial
| 16 | | circuits, a group consisting of the chief judges of those | 17 | | circuits, acting
jointly by majority vote, is the public | 18 | | employer and employer representative.
| 19 | | (3) For court reporters employed by all other judicial | 20 | | circuits,
a group consisting of the chief judges of those | 21 | | circuits, acting jointly by
majority vote, is the public | 22 | | employer and employer representative.
| 23 | | (p) "Security employee" means an employee who is | 24 | | responsible for the
supervision and control of inmates at | 25 | | correctional facilities. The term
also includes other | 26 | | non-security employees in bargaining units having the
majority |
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| 1 | | of employees being responsible for the supervision and control | 2 | | of
inmates at correctional facilities.
| 3 | | (q) "Short-term employee" means an employee who is employed | 4 | | for less
than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar | 5 | | year and who does
not have a reasonable assurance that he or | 6 | | she will be rehired by the
same employer for the same service | 7 | | in a subsequent calendar year.
| 8 | | (r) "Supervisor" is an employee whose principal work is | 9 | | substantially
different from that of his or her subordinates | 10 | | and who has authority, in the
interest of the employer, to | 11 | | hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall,
promote, discharge, | 12 | | direct, reward, or discipline employees, to adjust
their | 13 | | grievances, or to effectively recommend any of those actions, | 14 | | if the
exercise
of that authority is not of a merely routine or | 15 | | clerical nature, but
requires the consistent use of independent | 16 | | judgment. Except with respect to
police employment, the term | 17 | | "supervisor" includes only those individuals
who devote a | 18 | | preponderance of their employment time to exercising that
| 19 | | authority, State supervisors notwithstanding. In addition, in | 20 | | determining
supervisory status in police employment, rank | 21 | | shall not be determinative.
The Board shall consider, as | 22 | | evidence of bargaining unit inclusion or
exclusion, the common | 23 | | law enforcement policies and relationships between
police | 24 | | officer ranks and certification under applicable civil service | 25 | | law,
ordinances, personnel codes, or Division 2.1 of Article 10 | 26 | | of the Illinois
Municipal Code, but these factors shall not
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| 1 | | the sole or predominant factors considered by the Board in | 2 | | determining
police supervisory status.
| 3 | | Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, | 4 | | in determining
supervisory status in fire fighter employment, | 5 | | no fire fighter shall be
excluded as a supervisor who has | 6 | | established representation rights under
Section 9 of this Act. | 7 | | Further, in new fire fighter units, employees shall
consist of | 8 | | fire fighters of the rank of company officer and below. If a | 9 | | company officer otherwise qualifies as a supervisor under the | 10 | | preceding paragraph, however, he or she shall
not be included | 11 | | in the fire fighter
unit. If there is no rank between that of | 12 | | chief and the
highest company officer, the employer may | 13 | | designate a position on each
shift as a Shift Commander, and | 14 | | the persons occupying those positions shall
be supervisors. All | 15 | | other ranks above that of company officer shall be
supervisors.
| 16 | | (s)(1) "Unit" means a class of jobs or positions that are | 17 | | held by
employees whose collective interests may suitably be | 18 | | represented by a labor
organization for collective bargaining. | 19 | | Except with respect to non-State fire
fighters and paramedics | 20 | | employed by fire departments and fire protection
districts, | 21 | | non-State peace officers, and peace officers in the Department | 22 | | of
State Police, a bargaining unit determined by the Board | 23 | | shall not include both
employees and supervisors, or | 24 | | supervisors only, except as provided in paragraph
(2) of this | 25 | | subsection (s) and except for bargaining units in existence on | 26 | | July
1, 1984 (the effective date of this Act). With respect to |
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| 1 | | non-State fire
fighters and paramedics employed by fire | 2 | | departments and fire protection
districts, non-State peace | 3 | | officers, and peace officers in the Department of
State Police, | 4 | | a bargaining unit determined by the Board shall not include | 5 | | both
supervisors and nonsupervisors, or supervisors only, | 6 | | except as provided in
paragraph (2) of this subsection (s) and | 7 | | except for bargaining units in
existence on January 1, 1986 | 8 | | (the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1985). A | 9 | | bargaining unit determined by the Board to contain peace | 10 | | officers
shall contain no employees other than peace officers | 11 | | unless otherwise agreed to
by the employer and the labor | 12 | | organization or labor organizations involved.
Notwithstanding | 13 | | any other provision of this Act, a bargaining unit, including a
| 14 | | historical bargaining unit, containing sworn peace officers of | 15 | | the Department
of Natural Resources (formerly designated the | 16 | | Department of Conservation) shall
contain no employees other | 17 | | than such sworn peace officers upon the effective
date of this | 18 | | amendatory Act of 1990 or upon the expiration date of any
| 19 | | collective bargaining agreement in effect upon the effective | 20 | | date of this
amendatory Act of 1990 covering both such sworn | 21 | | peace officers and other
employees.
| 22 | | (2) Notwithstanding the exclusion of supervisors from | 23 | | bargaining units
as provided in paragraph (1) of this | 24 | | subsection (s), a public
employer may agree to permit its | 25 | | supervisory employees to form bargaining units
and may bargain | 26 | | with those units. This Act shall apply if the public employer
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| 1 | | chooses to bargain under this subsection.
| 2 | | (3) Public employees who are court reporters, as defined
in | 3 | | the Court Reporters Act,
shall be divided into 3 units for | 4 | | collective bargaining purposes. One unit
shall be court | 5 | | reporters employed by the Cook County Judicial Circuit; one
| 6 | | unit shall be court reporters employed by the 12th, 18th, 19th, | 7 | | and, on and after December 4, 2006, the 22nd judicial
circuits; | 8 | | and one unit shall be court reporters employed by all other
| 9 | | judicial circuits.
| 10 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1257, eff. 7-23-10; 97-586, eff. 8-26-11; | 11 | | 97-1158, eff. 1-29-13.)
| 12 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 13 | | becoming law.".
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