SB161
AN ACT relating to local government employees; establishing additional procedures pursuant to which parties to a collective bargaining negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers may submit issues to a binding arbitration process; prohibiting a school district or any agent thereof from requiring, requesting or urging a teacher to work more than a certain amount of time under certain circumstances; revising the penalties that may be imposed upon an employee organization representing teachers, the officers thereof and teachers for participation in a strike; revising the conduct that constitutes a strike; revising provisions relating to the recognition of employee organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to local government employees; establishing additional procedures pursuant to which parties to a collective bargaining negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers may submit issues to a binding arbitration process; prohibiting a school district or any agent thereof from requiring, requesting or urging a teacher to work more than a certain amount of time under certain circumstances; revising the penalties that may be imposed upon an employee organization representing teachers, the officers thereof and teachers for participation in a strike; revising the conduct that constitutes a strike; revising provisions relating to the recognition of employee organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Monday, February 3, 2025
Primary Sponsor
View 1 Primary Sponsors Close Primary Sponsors Senator Roche
Public exhibits
10
Support 7 · Opp 3 · Neutral 0
Auditor findings
0
recusal 0 · QPQ 0
AN ACT relating to local government employees; establishing additional procedures pursuant to which parties to a collect
Existing law sets forth various requirements and procedures for collective bargaining between local government employers and local government employees. (NRS 288.131-288.280) Existing law sets forth procedures by which the parties to a negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers or educational support personnel, after having failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement after at least four sessions of negotiations, may submit the issues remaining in dispute to a binding arbitration process. (NRS 288.217) Section 3 of this bill sets forth additional procedures by which the parties to a negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers may submit issues remaining in dispute to a binding arbitration process. Under section 3, the parties may, by mutual agreement, submit issues remaining in dispute to the binding arbitration process set forth in section 3 if the collective bargaining agreement between the school district and the employee organization representing teachers: (1) is scheduled to expire within 75 days before the first day of instruction of a school year and the parties have not agreed to a successor agreement 75 days before the first day of instruction of the school year, in which case the parties may submit the issues in dispute to an arbitrator any time on or after the date that is 75 days before the first day of instruction of the school year and on or before the date that i
NELIS exhibits (10 on file)
Support (7)
- several Clark County teachers and school counselor — Clark County Education Association (Statements)
- Matthew Nighswonger — Shadow Ridge High School (Testimony)
- Jim Frazee — Clark County School District (Testimony)
- Liz Adler — Sunrise Mountain High School (Testimony)
- Monica Bryant — Clark County School District (Letter)
- Angie Joye — Mountain View Elementary School (Testimony)
- Danielle Knoeppel — Clark County School District (Testimony)
Opposition (3)
- Nevada State Education Association (Statement)
- Paula Luna — Battle Born Progress (Testimony)
- Anahit Baghshetsyan — Nevada Policy (Testimony)
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