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H.R. 4846: Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

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H.R. 4846: Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-01-19 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-01-19 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

Plain summary

Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act This bill requires the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine whether a state substantially provides public safety officers or employees: the right to form and join a labor organization; recognition by public safety employers of the employees' labor organization, agreement to bargain with the organization, and reduction of any agreements to writing in a contract or memorandum of understanding; the right to bargain over hours, wages, and terms and conditions of employment; and binding interest arbitration to resolve an impasse in collective bargaining negotiations. The bill makes the authority responsible for: (1) determining the appropriateness of units for labor representation; (2) supervising elections; (3) conducting hearings and resolving complaints of unfair labor practices; and (4) protecting the right of employees to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from doing so. An employer, public safety officer, or labor organization may not engage in a lockout, sickout, work slowdown, strike, or any other organized job action that will measurably disrupt the delivery of emergency services and is designed to compel an employer, public safety officer, or labor organization to agree to the terms of a proposed contract.

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Official text

Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5] · 58 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Dina Titus (D-NV), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Brad Sherman (D-CA), David P. Joyce (R-OH), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Judy Chu (D-CA), Sam Graves (R-MO), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Don Bacon (R-NE), Mike Bost (R-IL), John B. Larson (D-CT), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr4846 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115