5614-S AMH LWD REIN 166

SSB 5614 - H COMM AMD

By Committee on Labor & Workforce Development

ADOPTED 04/08/2011

    On page 4, beginning on line 8, after "appropriations" strike "of ten thousand dollars or more"

    On page 4, beginning on line 15, strike all of subsections (A) and (B) and insert the following:

    "(A) If appropriations of less than ten thousand dollars are necessary to implement the provisions of a bargaining agreement, a request for such funds shall not be submitted to the legislature by the governor unless the request has been submitted to the director of the office of financial management by October 1 prior to the legislative session at which the request is to be considered.

(B) If appropriations of ten thousand dollars or more are necessary to implement the provisions of a bargaining agreement, a request for such funds shall not be submitted to the legislature by the governor unless the request:

(I) Has been submitted to the director of the office of financial management by October 1 prior to the legislative session at which the request is to be considered; and

(II) Has been certified by the director of the office of financial management as being feasible financially for the state.
(C) If the director of the office of financial management does not certify a request under (c)(ii)(B) of this subsection as being feasible financially for the state, the parties shall enter into collective bargaining solely for the purpose of reaching a mutually agreed upon modification of the agreement necessary to address the absence of those requested funds.  The legislature may act upon the compensation and fringe benefit provisions of the modified collective bargaining agreement if those provisions are agreed upon and submitted to the office of financial management and legislative budget committees before final legislative action on the biennial or supplemental operating budget by the sitting legislature."

EFFECT:  Specifies that, if appropriations of less than $10,000 are necessary to implement a bargaining agreement between the University of Washington and its classified staff, the Governor must not submit a request for such funds unless the request was submitted to the director of the Office of Financial Management (OFM) by October 1.

Specifies that the Legislature may act on a modified collective bargaining agreement if the modified agreement is submitted to OFM and legislative budget committees before final action on the budget.

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