LABOR: Provides relative to the resignation from labor organizations dues for teachers and other school employees and public employees
HB 980 amends existing state laws regarding the resignation from labor organizations and the payment of dues for teachers, other school employees, and public employees. The bill specifically corrects a reference to a statute by changing a citation from section (4) to section (3) within the legal text. This adjustment ensures that the rules governing when these employees can stop paying union dues align with the correct legal provision. The change is a technical correction rather than a new policy initiative, affecting the administrative consistency of labor law for public sector workers.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced May 6, 2024
Last action May 13, 2024
Floor votes · House May 8, 2024
How they voted
62–35
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 105
May 8, 2024
D
Democratic32
90% Nay
R
Republican73
83% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
2
Committee
1
May 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 62, nays 35. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 6, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, substitute title adopted, lies over in the same order of business, substitute for HB No. 712 reported by the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations (9-3).
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Raymond Crews
RRepublican
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