Florida Senate - 2021 SB 610



By Senator Stewart





13-00128-21 2021610__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to collective bargaining for
3 instructional personnel; amending s. 1012.2315, F.S.;
4 removing a requirement that each school district and
5 the certified collective bargaining unit for
6 instructional personnel within each district negotiate
7 a specified memorandum of understanding; removing a
8 requirement that certain certified collective
9 bargaining units include specified information in
10 their applications for renewal of registration;
11 removing a requirement that certain employee
12 organizations petition the Public Employees Relations
13 Commission for recertification; providing an effective
14 date.
15
16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
17
18 Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 1012.2315, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 1012.2315 Assignment of teachers.—
21 (4) COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.—
22 (a) Notwithstanding provisions of chapter 447 relating to
23 district school board collective bargaining, collective
24 bargaining provisions may not preclude a school district from
25 providing incentives to high-quality teachers and assigning such
26 teachers to low-performing schools.
27 (b) Before the start of the 2019-2020 school year, each
28 school district and the certified collective bargaining unit for
29 instructional personnel shall negotiate a memorandum of
30 understanding that addresses the selection, placement, and
31 expectations of instructional personnel and provides school
32 principals with the autonomy described in s. 1012.28(8).
33 (c)1. In addition to the provisions under s. 447.305(2), an
34 employee organization that has been certified as the bargaining
35 agent for a unit of instructional personnel as defined in s.
36 1012.01(2) must include for each such certified bargaining unit
37 the following information in its application for renewal of
38 registration:
39 a. The number of employees in the bargaining unit who are
40 eligible for representation by the employee organization.
41 b. The number of employees who are represented by the
42 employee organization, specifying the number of members who pay
43 dues and the number of members who do not pay dues.
44 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 447 relating
45 to collective bargaining, an employee organization whose dues
46 paying membership is less than 50 percent of the employees
47 eligible for representation in the unit, as identified in
48 subparagraph 1., must petition the Public Employees Relations
49 Commission pursuant to s. 447.307(2) and (3) for recertification
50 as the exclusive representative of all employees in the unit
51 within 1 month after the date on which the organization applies
52 for renewal of registration pursuant to s. 447.305(2). The
53 certification of an employee organization that does not comply
54 with this paragraph is revoked.
55 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.

Statutes affected:
S 610 Filed: 1012.2315