Public Employees

State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Safety - 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System - 9-1-1 Technician [HB-316] [Public Safety ] [Telecommunications ] [Law Enforcement ] [Technology and Innovation ]
Altering the definition of "9-1-1 specialist" to include a 9-1-1 technician who is an employee of a public safety answering point or an employee working in a public safety answering point.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer First Reading Health And Government Operations on 01/10/2025

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

Relating To Legislative Employees. [SB-105] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Repeals staff of the legislative branch of the State from the list of individuals not included in any appropriate bargaining unit. Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang Referred To Lbt, Jdc/wam. on 01/16/2025

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

Public entities; immunity [SB-1042] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Public entities; immunity

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John Kavanagh Senate Read Second Time on 01/15/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) [HB-1] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Human Rights ] [Public Safety ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ] [Crime ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation sector employers to certify by January 1, 2027, and each year thereafter that certain employees have completed the training program; requiring new employees to receive training within 90 days of hiring; removing civil and criminal liability for reporting of suspected trafficking; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein Approved By The Governor - Chapter 437 on 05/13/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act [HB-176] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Health ]
Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to adopt regulations for the training, issuance, and use of body-worn cameras by January 1, 2026; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce certain duties regarding the oversight of workplace safety and health of employees of certain public bodies; establishing and applying certain civil and criminal penalties to public bodies and persons in government; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Solomon Approved By The Governor - Chapter 609 on 05/20/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [HB-217] [Workers' Compensation ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Safety ] [Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Rogers Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [SB-173] [Workers' Compensation ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Safety ] [Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Employment Standards – Firefighters – Payment of Wages and Payroll Information [HB-205] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required or wages due.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Solomon Referred Finance on 03/17/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

State Retirement and Pension System - Forfeiture of Benefits [HB-98] [Pensions ] [Retirement ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Ethics ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ]
Establishing that a public employee is subject to forfeiture of benefits from the State Retirement and Pension System when a public employee is found guilty of, pleads guilty to, or enters a plea of nolo contendere to a qualifying crime that is committed in the course of the performance of the public employee's duties; providing for the processes and procedures to implement a forfeiture of benefits; and providing for the processes and procedures to reverse a forfeiture of benefits.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Brian Crosby Hearing 1/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/10/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Employment Standards - Firefighters - Payment of Wages and Payroll Information [SB-124] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Workers' Compensation ]
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours, regardless of whether earned or accrued leave was use; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance under certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer Hearing 1/16 At 3:00 P.m. on 01/09/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act [SB-26] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Health ] [Workers' Compensation ] [Crime ]
Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to adopt regulations for the training, issuance, and use of body-worn cameras by January 1, 2026; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce certain duties regarding the oversight of workplace safety and health of employees of certain public bodies; establishing and applying certain civil and criminal penalties to public bodies and persons in government; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer Approved By The Governor - Chapter 608 on 05/20/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Individuals Experiencing Homelessness - Address Requirements - Prohibition [HB-254] [Housing ] [Human Services ] [Libraries ] [Poverty ] [Community Development ]
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to provide a current address in certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Addison Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Labor and Employment - Parental School Engagement Leave Act [SB-58] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Education ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Children and Youth ]
Requiring certain employers to provide certain employees with at least 12 hours of parental school engagement leave each school year to attend meetings and conferences relating to the schooling of the employee's child; and requiring the State Superintendent of Schools and the Commissioner of Labor to provide notice of certain provisions of the Act and develop and make available a document that may be used to validate an employee's use of parental school engagement leave.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/14/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Department of Transportation – Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) [SB-7] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Human Rights ] [Public Safety ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ] [Criminal Justice ] [Crime ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a certain training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation sector employers to certify by January 1, 2026, and each year thereafter that certain employees have completed the training program; requiring new employees to receive training within 90 days of hiring; removing civil and criminal liability for reporting of suspected trafficking; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson Hearing 3/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/17/2025

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 33rd Legislature

Suspend Uniform Rules For Sb 147 [HCR-27]
Suspend Uniform Rules For Sb 147

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Permanently Filed 9/10 Legis Resolve 55 on 09/10/2024

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 33rd Legislature

Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 230 [SCR-30]
Suspend Uniform Rules For Hb 230

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Permanently Filed 9/10 Legis Resolve 42 on 10/09/2024

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State (Alaska)
Alaska 33rd Legislature

Eliminate Vacant State Positions [HB-397] [Budget and Spending ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
An Act relating to eliminating vacant positions in the classified and partially exempt service of the state; and providing for an effective date.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Fin Referral Added After Sta on 05/06/2024

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2024 Regular Session

Creates recertification requirements for public employee labor organizations. (8/1/24) [SB-292] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Public Safety ]
Creates recertification requirements for public employee labor organizations. (8/1/24)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Alan Seabaugh Introduced In The Senate; Read By Title. Rules Suspended. Read Second Time And Referred To The Committee On Labor And Industrial Relations. on 03/11/2024

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2024 Regular Session

Provides for certain payroll deductions for labor organizations from compensation paid to public employees. (8/1/24) [SB-264] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Safety ]
Provides for certain payroll deductions for labor organizations from compensation paid to public employees. (8/1/24)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Alan Seabaugh Introduced In The Senate; Read By Title. Rules Suspended. Read Second Time And Referred To The Committee On Labor And Industrial Relations. on 03/11/2024

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2024 Regular Session

Increases survivor benefits for dependent children of firemen and law enforcement officers. (8/1/24) (EN +$200,000 GF EX See Note) [SB-31] [Law Enforcement ] [Children and Youth ] [Public Safety ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Crime ] [Funding ] [Grants ]
Increases survivor benefits for dependent children of firemen and law enforcement officers. (8/1/24) (EN +$200,000 GF EX See Note)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Francis Thompson Effective Date 8/1/2024. on 05/28/2024

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