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Senate committee adopts amendment requiring unions be notified when staff face immigration enforcement at schools and child-care sites
Summary
The Law and Justice Committee adopted an amendment to SB 5906 that would require early-learning providers and school districts to notify a unionized employee's collective-bargaining representative if immigration enforcement occurs on site; the committee rolled the amendment into a new proposed substitute and sent the bill on a due-pass recommendation to rules.
Senate Bill 5906, a proposal addressing data and personal safety protections in areas of public accommodation, drew attention Jan. 29 in the Law and Justice Committee when members adopted Amendment Bravo 1, which would require an early-learning provider or a school district to contact the collective-bargaining representative of a unionized employee if the worker is subject to an immigration enforcement action on site.
Maya Ayda, staff counsel, summarized the proposed substitute (Bravo) and explained Bravo 1's notification requirement for childcare and…
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