To exempt law enforcement and fire department employees from a 2011 law that banned automatic seniority-based automatic pay hikes for individual government employees (“step increases”) during the time when a government employee union contract has expired and no replacement has been negotiated. Specifically, the bill would exempt public safety workers covered by a 1969 compulsory arbitration law.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

To also repeal the "no contract, no step-pay increase" law for non-public safety government and school employees starting in 2015.