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RIS2902Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CONTRACTORS BONDS - Provides that upon application, and good cause, the state may waive the bonding requirement for certified minority business enterprises or women owned businesses.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2468Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Requires the department of administration to provide a list of certified minority and women-owned business enterprises to each prospective contractor of a construction project.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2466Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY -- MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE - Increases the minimum required awarded to minority business enterprises to 20% and of that, require a minimum of 10% be awarded to minority owned businesses and that a minimum of 10% be awarded to wom...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2235Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- STATE PURCHASES - Gives authority to the department of labor and training to enforce violations of the state purchases chapter and also adds penalties for those violations.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2125Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Provides employees with civil administrative remedies against contractors, subcontractors involved in the contract with joint/severable liability imposed on contractors or subcontractors. Effective 9/1/...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2901Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- LABOR AND PAYMENT OF DEBTS BY CONTRACTORS - Prohibits contractors and subcontractors from paying employees the cash equivalent of any applicable healthcare benefit in lieu of actually purchasing the healthcare benefit. Vi...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2900Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EXTREME TEMPERATURE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Directs employers to take certain actions to protect their employees who are exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2234Intro
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PUBLIC PROPERTY AND WORKS -- CORROSION PREVENTION AND MITIGATION WORK REQUIREMENTS - Gives authority to the DLT to enforce violations of the laws relating to corrosion prevention and mitigation work requirements. Also adds civil monetary penalties fo...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2474Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- HOISTING ENGINEERS - Amends the examination requirements for a hoisting engineers license.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2785Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT -- EMPLOYEE FREE SPEECH RIGHTS - Protects employees free speech regarding political or religious matters.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2469Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Amends the state's apprenticeship laws to make them more consistent with applicable federal regulations and makes said laws more comprehendible and consistent with each other.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2120Intro
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BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Clarifies the types of electrical services that require an electrical contractor's license.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2783Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY -- BENEFITS - Allows unemployment benefits for workers who are on strike or are locked out of their workplaces by their employer due to a labor dispute.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2473Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKPLACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY ACT - Protects bullying/psychological abuse in workplace inflicted upon employees by employers/co-employees/provides civil remedies to affected employees/fines against employers/imprisonment...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2688Intro
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BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS -- ELECTRICIANS - Establishes an examination on proficiency in solar technology upon renewal of certificate, adds $72.00 fee.
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2690Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING REFORM ACT - Authorizes any and all state licensing authorities to issue licenses to individuals moving into this state with a minimum of three (3) years of practice, in good standing in any other s...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2476Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS ARBITRATION - Expands the definition of correctional officer, to include any bargaining unit, in which correctional officers constitute a majority of the bargaining unit's membership.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2478Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WAREHOUSE WORKER PROTECTION ACT - Requires employer provide employee with written quota descriptions/number of task/item production along with potential adverse employment action for failure to meet quotas/ provides emplo...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2123Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES - Requires employer to furnish items and conditions of employment and a pay stub explaining how wages were calculated/reasons for deductions/allows the employee to file a court action against employer for...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2471Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT - Increases the minimum wage amount for any person committed to the adult correctional institution from three dollars to five dollars a day for every day the person shall labor.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2465Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTIONS STAFFING - Establishes parameters for staffing of correctional officers.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2784Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ARBITRATION - Recognizes that municipal employees have the opportunity to utilize interest arbitration and would establish new factors for the arbitrators to consider. These factors include comparison...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2689Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Allows employee injured by willful misconduct of employer to receive double the remedy for their injuries. If an employer does not have workers' comp insurance, and is not cla...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2687Intro
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COURTS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE -- COURTS -- COURT CLERKS' INCENTIVE PAY - Extends the incentive pay plan to all full-time court clerks who meet the eligibility requirements.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2472Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- WORKERS' COMPENSATION -- GENERAL PROVISIONS - Amends the current law on workers' compensation to require any person who is considered an independent contractor to file annually with the director of labor and training and ...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2464Intro
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STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- OPEN MEETINGS - Provides that public meetings involving collective bargaining agreements of school teachers shall be open to the public.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2477Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- PAYMENT OF WAGES -- FREQUENCY OF PAYMENT - Eliminate all exceptions to the provision that all employees are to be paid weekly except for employees of the state and its political subdivisions, municipal governments, and no...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2470Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Creates new definition for the term "employee", for purposes of wages, workers' compensation, temporary disability and unemployment insurance benefits, which deems a worker to be an employee, as opposed to...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2475Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Sets the minimum wage for 2025 at seventeen dollars ($17.00) per hour and for 2026 at twenty dollars ($20.00) per hour.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2237Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Commencing January 1, 2025, this act would increase the minimum wage for employees receiving gratuities from the current $3.89 to $6.75 per hour.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2122Intro
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CORPORATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS -- WORKERS' COOPERATIVES - Clarifies the role of a workers' cooperative to allow it to operate as a hiring hall under certain circumstances.
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2024-01-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2119Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- LABOR RELATIONS ACT - Allows governmental employee union contracts to contain specific references to specific health insurance companies.
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2024-01-12
To Senate Labor Committee
RIS2021Intro
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LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES - Allows individuals employed in domestic service or in or about a private home to be included as an employee, for purposes of minimum wages law.
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2024-01-10
To Senate Labor Committee
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