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H2093 • 2025

An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees

An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees

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Sponsor
Carol A. Doherty
Last action
2026-05-07
Official status
Accompanied a study order, see H5370 (under House Rule 27)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees

An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees By Representative Doherty of Taunton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees By Representative Doherty of Taunton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2093) of Carol A.
  • Doherty and others relative to allowing legislative employees to unionize.
  • Labor and Workforce Development.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-07 House

    Accompanied a study order, see H5370 (under House Rule 27)

  2. 2025-10-20 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/28/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in A-1

  3. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Labor and Workforce Development

  4. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

  5. House

    Reported by committee to Clerk’s Office for processing, will accompany a study order

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to collective bargaining rights for legislative employees
By Representative Doherty of Taunton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2093) of Carol A. Doherty and others relative to allowing legislative employees to unionize. Labor and Workforce Development.

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Bill H.2093

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 150E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “executive”, in line 10, the following:-, “legislative”.

SECTION 2. Said section 1 of said chapter 150E, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the definition of “Legislative body” the following definitions:-

“Legislative employees”, all employees of the general court, including, but not limited to, legislative personal employees, employees of committees, caucuses, legislative information services, the house and senate business offices, the engrossing division, the house and senate clerk’s offices, the house and senate counsel’s offices and the house and senate human resource offices.

“Legislative personal employees”, general court employees whom the house speaker or senate president has approved for employment in the office of a particular senator or representative at the request of said senator or representative.

SECTION 3. Section 3 of said chapter 150E, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the third paragraph the following 2 paragraphs:-

Appropriate bargaining units in the senate may include all legislative employees; provided however, that: (1) in the case of legislative personal employees, legislative employees within the senate president’s office, the senate minority leader’s office, the office of the chair of the senate ways and means committee, the senate clerk’s office, or senate counsel’s office may be managerial or confidential employees that are excluded from the bargaining unit if said employees are managerial or confidential employees as defined in section 1; and (2) in the case of all other legislative employees, said employees may be excluded from a bargaining unit if said employees are managerial or confidential employees as defined in section 1.

Appropriate bargaining units in the house may include all legislative employees; provided however, that: (1) in the case of legislative personal employees, legislative employees within the house speaker’s office, the house minority leader’s office, the office of the chair of the house ways and means committee, the house clerk’s office, or house counsel’s office may be managerial or confidential employees that are excluded from the bargaining unit if said employees are managerial or confidential employees as defined in section 1; and (2) in the case of all other legislative employees, said employees may be excluded from a bargaining unit if said employees are managerial or confidential employees as defined in section 1.

SECTION 4. Section 23 of chapter 268A of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the words “; and (iv) establishing additional exclusions for other situations that do not present a genuine risk of a conflict or the appearance of a conflict of interest” and inserting in place thereof the following words:-

; (iv) establishing additional exclusions for other situations that do not present a genuine risk of a conflict or the appearance of a conflict of interest; and (v) establishing specific exemptions, exclusions and procedures for curing particular perceptions of a conflict of interest as they may apply to exclusive representatives under Chapter 150E.

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