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Committee hears referral asking voters to bar school districts from supporting labor organizations
Summary
A House committee considered HCR 2040, a referral that would ask voters to prohibit school districts from using public funds or resources to support labor organizations, bar paycheck deductions for union dues and prohibit districts and employees from using district systems for union activity; the bill sponsor plans to concur with a Senate amendment.
The committee considered House Concurrent Resolution 2040 on the floor of a committee meeting, hearing a presenter summarize the measure and taking brief procedural questions.
Presenter (speaker 5) told the committee that HCR 2040, as passed by the Senate, "refers a measure to the voters that prohibits a school district from using public monies and public resources to support the operations of a labor organization, or to perform labor organization activities during working hours." The presenter said the referral would also "prohibit a school district from deducting any payment from an employee's paycheck for labor organization membership dues" and would bar use of district communication systems to distribute recruitment or political material.
The measure, explained the presenter, would additionally bar school district employees from distributing written or digital communications "in a manner that consumes public resources on a labor organization's behalf" and would state that a school district employee has the right to negotiate their own terms and that the state or political subdivisions could not enter into exclusive representation agreements, collective bargaining agreements, memoranda of understanding or other contracts with labor organizations regarding employment terms.
Committee members had no extended debate recorded on this referral; Chair (speaker 1) asked if there were questions and the presenter said the sponsor intends to concur with the Senate amendment. No formal motion or vote is recorded in the transcript.
If placed before voters and adopted, HCR 2040 would change the state-level rules governing whether school districts may engage with labor organizations and would limit standard school-district labor-relations tools such as payroll-deducted dues and district communications for organizing. The committee closed caucus after questions and the presenter’s remarks, with no recorded final action in the transcript.
