Number 055 SB 151 PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT LABOR RELATIONS CHAIRMAN GREEN brought SB 151 before the committee as the next order of business. She stated CSSB 151(STA) was adopted at the previous hearing on the legislation. SENATOR DUNCAN moved Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 151(STA), which, he said, removes the sections in the committee substitute and the original bill that would require increasing the number of bargaining units in the state. Increasing the number of bargaining units will increase the cost to the state and causes other types of problems. Amendment No. 1 Page 3, line 16: Delete "new subsections" and insert "a new subsection" Page 3, line 24, through page 4, line 25: Delete all material SENATOR WARD objected to the adoption of Amendment No. 1. The roll wa taken with the following result: Senator Duncan voted "Yea" and Senators Miller, Ward and Green voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion failed on a 1-3 vote. Number 144 SENATOR DUNCAN moved Amendment No. 2 to CSSB 151(STA), which, he said, would remove the findings sections in the legislation. These findings sections are taken from federal law and there is not evidence of the types of abuses and problems that the findings declare are there. Amendment No. 2 Page 1, line 6, through page 2, line 19: Delete all material. Page 2, line 20: Delete "Sec. 2" and insert "Section 1" Renumber the following bill sections accordingly. Page 50, line 10: Delete "sec. 37" and insert "sec. 36" Page 50 line 22: Delete "sec. 37" and insert "sec. 36" SENATOR WARD objected to the adoption of Amendment No. 2. The roll was taken with the following result: Senator Duncan voted "Yea" and Senators Miller, Ward and Green voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion failed. Number 155 SENATOR DUNCAN moved Amendment No. 3 to CSSB 151(STA),which, he said, would delete Section 37. However, after brief discussion it was concluded that the amendment was improperly drafted, and Senator Duncan then withdrew Amendment No. 3. SENATOR DUNCAN moved a conceptual Amendment No. 3 to CSSB 151(STA) to delete Section 37 and any references to Section 37 throughout the committee substitute. He said Section 37 basically incorporates the federal language and places a significant additional administrative burden within the Department of Labor to duplicate a federal bureaucracy which collects reports and audits union activities in the private sector. SENATOR WARD objected to the adoption of a conceptual Amendment No. 3. The roll was taken with the following result: Senator Duncan voted "Yea" and Senators Ward, Miller and Green voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion failed. Number 225 SENATOR DUNCAN moved Amendment No. 4 to CSSB 151(STA). He said this is the area where the president of the AFL-CIO testified that they would have to bring out the handcuffs because he would not make copies of his membership list and make it public. Amendment No. 4 Page 35, line 16: Delete "and copy" SENATOR GREEN objected to the adoption of Amendment No. 4. The roll was taken with the following result: Senator Duncan voted "Yea" and Senators Miller, Ward and Green voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion failed. Number 260 SENATOR DUNCAN moved the adoption of Amendment No. 5 to CSSB 151(STA) which he said eliminates the requirement that the Legislature give approval of arbitration awards and any extensions or modifications of an agreement. Amendment No. 5 Page 14, lines 21 - 24: Delete "and the extension or modification of an agreement, including an award by an arbitrator acting under AS 23.40.200, if the extension or modification affects in any way the monetary terms of an agreement." Page 14, line 29, through page 15, line 26: Delete all material. Renumber the following bill sections accordingly. Page 50, line 8: Delete "23.40.215(c)," Page 50, line 10: Delete "sec. 37" and insert "sec. 35" Page 50, line 22: Delete "sec. 37" and inert "sec. 35" SENATOR MILLER objected to the adoption of Amendment No. 5. The roll was taken with the following result: Senator Duncan voted "Yea" and Senators Green, Miller and Ward voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion failed. Number 267 CHAIRMAN GREEN related that new fiscal notes for CSSB 151(STA) had been provided by the Department of Law and the Department of Labor, and there being no further amendments or testimony, she requested a motion on CSSB 151(STA). SENATOR WARD moved CSSB 151(STA) and the accompanying fiscal notes be passed out of committee with individual recommendations. SENATOR DUNCAN objected. The roll was taken with the following result: Senators Miller, Ward and Green voted "Yea" and Senator Duncan voted "Nay." The Chairman stated the motion to move CSSB 151(STA) out of committee carried.