PRINTER'S NO. 3171

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

2230

Session of

2020

INTRODUCED BY GREINER, RYAN, FEE, MACKENZIE, PYLE, HICKERNELL,

JAMES, KEEFER, MENTZER AND ZIMMERMAN, JANUARY 17, 2020

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 17, 2020

mediation and fact-finding, for collective bargaining

impasses; providing arbitration for certain public employes

for collective bargaining impasses; defining the scope of

collective bargaining; establishing unfair employe and

employer practices; prohibiting strikes for certain public

employes; permitting strikes under limited conditions;

providing penalties for violations; and establishing

procedures for implementation," in public policy, further

providing for declaration of purpose; in definitions, further

providing for definitions; in employee rights, providing for

Section 1. Section 101 of the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563,

No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations Act, is amended

to read:

Section 101. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania declares that it is the public policy of this

Commonwealth and the purpose of this act to promote orderly and

constructive relationships between all public employers and

their employes subject, however, to the paramount right of the

citizens of this Commonwealth to keep inviolate the guarantees

for their health, safety and welfare. Unresolved disputes

between the public employer and its employes, the General

Assembly has determined that the overall policy may best be

accomplished by (1) granting to public employes the right to

organize and choose freely their representatives; (2) requiring

public employers to negotiate and bargain with employe

organizations representing public employes and to enter into

written agreements evidencing the result of such bargaining;

[and] (3) establishing procedures to provide for the protection

of the rights of the public employe, the public employer and the

public at large[.]; and (4) ensuring public employers do not

(20) "Political contribution" means funds allocated for any

of the following purposes:

(i) A contribution as defined in section 1621(b) of the act

of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the "Pennsylvania

Election Code."

(ii) An independent expenditure as defined in section

1621(e) of the "Pennsylvania Election Code."

(iii) An expenditure as defined in section 1621(d) of the

"Pennsylvania Election Code."

employes, including public school employes governed under the

act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the "Public

School Code of 1949," except as required by a valid collective

bargaining agreement entered into or renewed between the public

employer and a representative of the public employes before the

effective date of this section.

(b) This section shall not apply to any of the following:

(1) Employes of a public employer who are subject to the act

of June 24, 1968 (P.L.237, No.111), referred to as the Policemen

and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act.

under this act, w henever it is charged by a public employe that

a public employer has engaged in or is engaging in an unfair

practice prohibited under section 402, the public employe may

file a petition in the Commonwealth Court for temporary relief,

or a restraining or mandamus order as the Commonwealth Court

deems just and proper or requisite to effectuate section 402. In

a proceeding under this section, the parties before the

Section 4. The provisions of this act are severable. If any

provision of this act or its application to any person or

circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect

other provisions or applications of this act which can be given

effect without the invalid provision or application.

Section 5. This act shall take effect as follows:

shall take effect in 30 days.