Emergency managers establishment as essential employees

A bill for an act

relating to public safety; establishing that emergency managers are essential

employees; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 179A.03, subdivision 7.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 179A.03, subdivision 7, is amended to read:

Subd. 7.

Essential employee.

"Essential employee" means firefighters, peace officers

subject to licensure under sections
626.84
to
626.863
, 911 system and police and fire

department public safety dispatchers,
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emergency managers,
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guards at correctional facilities,

confidential employees, supervisory employees, assistant county attorneys, assistant city

attorneys, principals, and assistant principals. However, for state employees, "essential

employee" means all employees in law enforcement, public safety radio communications

operators, health care professionals, correctional guards, professional engineering, and

supervisory collective bargaining units, irrespective of severance, and no other employees.

For University of Minnesota employees, "essential employee" means all employees in law

enforcement, nursing professional and supervisory units, irrespective of severance, and no

other employees. "Firefighters" means salaried employees of a fire department whose duties

include, directly or indirectly, controlling, extinguishing, preventing, detecting, or

investigating fires. Employees for whom the state court administrator is the negotiating

employer are not essential employees. For Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. employees,

"essential employees" means all employees.