SB 361 — An Act providing for duties of public employers relating to public employee information.

PRINTER'S NO.   307

                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                       SENATE BILL
                       No. 361
                                              Session of
                                                2025

     INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, SAVAL, FONTANA, HAYWOOD, COSTA, KANE,
        TARTAGLIONE AND SANTARSIERO, FEBRUARY 28, 2025

     REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025


                                   AN ACT
 1   Providing for duties of public employers relating to public
 2      employee information.
 3      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 4   hereby enacts as follows:
 5   Section 1.   Short title.
 6      This act shall be known and may be cited as the Public
 7   Employer Disclosure Act.
 8   Section 2.   Scope of act.
 9      This act relates to the duties of public employers relating
10   to public employee information.
11   Section 3.   Definitions.
12      The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
13   have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
14   context clearly indicates otherwise:
15      "Employee organization."   An organization or an agency or
16   employee representation committee or plan in which membership is
17   limited to public employees and which exists for the purpose, in
18   whole or in part, of dealing with public employers concerning
 1   grievances, public employee-public employer disputes, wages,
 2   rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work. The
 3   term does not include an organization which practices
 4   discrimination in membership because of race, color, creed,
 5   national origin or political affiliation.
 6      "Public employee."     An individual employed by a public
 7   employer. The term does not include elected officials,
 8   appointees of the Governor with the advice and consent of the
 9   Senate as required by law, management level employees,
10   confidential employees, clergymen or other persons in a
11   religious profession, employees or personnel at church offices
12   or facilities when utilized primarily for religious purposes.
13      "Public employer."     The Commonwealth, its political
14   subdivisions, including school districts and any officer, board,
15   commission, agency, authority or other instrumentality thereof,
16   a nonprofit organization or institution and any charitable,
17   religious, scientific, literary, recreational, health,
18   educational or welfare institution receiving grants or
19   appropriations from the Federal, State or local government. The
20   term does not include employers covered or presently subject to
21   coverage under the act of June 1, 1937 (P.L.1168, No.294), known
22   as the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act.
23      "Representative."     An individual who is authorized to act on
24   behalf of an employee organization for public employees.
25   Section 4.     Duties of public employer.
26      (a)   Information.--A public employer shall provide to a
27   representative, if the public employer has the information in
28   the public employer's records, the following information for
29   each public employee:
30            (1)   The public employee's name and date of hire.

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 1            (2)   The public employee's contact information, including
 2      cell phone number, home telephone number, work telephone
 3      number, work email address and personal email address.
 4            (3)   The public employee's job title, salary or rate of
 5      pay, work site location or duty station.
 6      (b)   Transmittal of information.--
 7            (1)   Subject to paragraph (2), a public employer shall
 8      provide the information required under subsection (a), in an
 9      easily searchable electronic format, to the representative.
10      The information shall be transmitted as follows:
11                  (i)    For a newly hired public employee in a
12            bargaining unit, no later than 21 business days after the
13            date of hire.
14                  (ii)    For all public employees in a bargaining unit,
15            no less than once every 120 days.
16            (2)   If there is a State-level representative for the
17      employee organization for a bargaining unit, the public
18      employer may elect to provide the information only to the
19      State-level representative.
20      (c)   Meeting space.--Upon request, the public employer shall
21   make space and time available for an employee organization to
22   meet with public employees on a quarterly basis each year. The
23   employee organization shall request the space and time no less
24   than 10 business days before a meeting. Within five business
25   days of a request, the public employer shall notify public
26   employees of the time and location of the meeting.
27   Section 5.     Use of information.
28      An employee organization may only use the information
29   provided under section 4 for representation purposes. The
30   employee organization may not sell or provide access to the

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 1   information provided under section 4 for any purpose other than
 2   as permitted under this act unless otherwise authorized under a
 3   collective bargaining agreement entered into between a public
 4   employer and a representative of the public employees under the
 5   act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public
 6   Employe Relations Act.
 7   Section 6.    Failure to comply.
 8      If a public employer fails to comply with the provisions of
 9   this act, the employee organization may bring an action in a
10   court of appropriate jurisdiction to compel compliance. The
11   court may order the public employer to pay costs and reasonable
12   attorney fees incurred by the employee organization for bringing
13   the action.
14   Section 7.    Collective bargaining agreement.
15      Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit a
16   collective bargaining agreement from requiring more frequent
17   transmittal of public employee information than required under
18   section 4(b).
19   Section 8.    Effective date.
20      This act shall take effect in 90 days.




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