HB 523 Louisiana House · 2024 Regular Session

LABOR/COLLECTIVE BARGAIN: Provides relative to the election of a collective bargaining representative

This bill modifies the rules for how workers choose a collective bargaining representative, which is the group that negotiates employment terms on their behalf. It changes the deadline for holding an election from August to October and adjusts the voting threshold required to win from at least sixty percent to simply more than fifty percent. Additionally, the legislation alters the calendar year used for counting election cycles and removes a specific section regarding the timing of the election. These changes directly affect employees and unions involved in the process of selecting a bargaining agent.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 1, 2024 Last action May 16, 2024
Floor votes · House May 14, 2024

How they voted

63–34
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 105
May 14, 2024
D Democratic32
29 Nay 3
90% Nay
R Republican73
63 Yea 5 Nay 5
86% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
11
Key actions
2
Committee
3
May 14, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 63, nays 34. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (9-4).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Roger Wilder
Roger Wilder
RRepublican
LA
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