An Act To Ensure Transparency in Public Union Negotiations
Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶F, as amended by PL 2009, c. 334, §2, is further amended to read:
Sec. 2. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶G, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 334, §3, is amended to read:
(1) Promotes, organizes or regulates statewide interscholastic activities in public schools or in both public and private schools; and
(2) Receives its funding from the public and private school members, either through membership dues or fees collected from those schools based on the number of participants of those schools in interscholastic activities.
This paragraph applies to only those meetings pertaining to interscholastic sports and does not apply to any meeting or any portion of any meeting the subject of which is limited to personnel issues, allegations of interscholastic athletic rule violations by member schools, administrators, coaches or student athletes or the eligibility of an individual student athlete or coach . ; and
Sec. 3. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶H is enacted to read:
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This bill amends the Freedom of Access Act by making collective bargaining meetings between public employers and a collective bargaining unit conducted pursuant to the municipal public employees labor relations laws, the state employees labor relations laws or the judicial employees labor relations laws public proceedings under the Act and therefore subject to the open meeting and notice requirements of the Act.