This bill addresses the issue of promotion practices within municipalities, specifically targeting the use of ranked lists of public employees eligible for promotion. It proposes to make it an unfair labor practice for a city or town to fail to promote employees in the order they appear on a ranked list. The bill stipulates that a public employer may only pass over an eligible candidate on the list for promotion once during the life of the list. Furthermore, the criteria used to create the ranked list must be in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement in effect when the list is created.

The bill amends RSA 273-A:5, I(i) by adding a new section (j), which outlines the new requirements for promotions based on ranked lists. It defines "public employee" as any person employed by a city or town and "public employer" as a city or town for the purposes of this amendment. The bill is set to take effect 60 days after its passage, indicating that cities and towns will need to comply with this new regulation within that timeframe if the bill is enacted.