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• Introduced by Rep. Paul Opsommer (R) on February 13, 2007, to revise the law authorizing the consolidation of services provided by neighboring local governments to eliminate a provision that prohibits the consolidated service from renegotiating the terms of employment of government employees, and requires existing employees to be given all their same benefits, seniority, salary, etc.
  • Referred to the House Intergovernmental, Urban And Regional Affairs Committee on February 13, 2007.
  • Substitute offered by Rep. Steve Tobocman (D) on May 25, 2007, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that still requires existing employees to be given all their same benefits, seniority, salary, etc., but also inserts language that nothing in the statute would require the administrative entity created under an intergovernment consolidated service agreement to pay to employees the highest wages and benefits previously paid to any of the employees, or to their preexisting union bargaining units. The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on May 25, 2007.
• Passed 105 to 0 in the House on May 25, 2007, to revise the law authorizing the consolidation of services provided by neighboring local governments to establish that the administrative entity created under an intergovernment consolidated service agreement would not be required to pay to employees the highest wages and benefits previously paid to any of the employees, or to their preexisting union bargaining units. This language is inserted into the current law, but existing language requiring that existing employees be given all their same benefits, seniority, salary, etc. is not removed.
  Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
• Received in the Senate on May 29, 2007.
  • Referred to the Senate Local, Urban, & State Affairs Committee on May 29, 2007.
    • Reported in the Senate on July 26, 2007, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
  • Substitute offered in the Senate on August 1, 2007, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that does not include the seemingly contradictory provisions in the House-passed version, which would require local government to give existing employees all their same benefits, seniority, salary, etc., but also states that "nothing in the statute" would require this. The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on August 1, 2007.
  • Substitute offered by Sen. Ray Basham (D) on September 12, 2007, to replace the version of the bill adopted by the Senate "committee of the whole" with one that echoes the House-passed version.