SENATE DOCKET, NO. 924 FILED ON: 1/17/2013 SENATE ...... No. 1298

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ______

PRESENTED BY:

James E. Timilty ______

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the sanctity of collective bargaining. ______

PETITION OF:

NAME: DISTRICT/ADDRESS: James E. Timilty Bristol and Norfolk Michael O. Moore Second Worcester Mark J. Cusack 5th Norfolk Paul J. Donato 35th Middlesex Anne M. Gobi 5th Worcester Edward F. Coppinger 10th Suffolk Steven S. Howitt 4th Bristol John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth Bradley H. Jones, Jr. 20th Middlesex Carlo Basile 1st Suffolk Jennifer L. Flanagan Worcester and Middlesex 2nd Norfolk Michael J. Finn 6th Hampden Richard T. Moore Worcester and Norfolk Kimberly N. Ferguson 1st Worcester Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera 10th Hampden James J. Dwyer 30th Middlesex James T. Welch Hampden

1 of 3 Paul McMurtry 11th Norfolk F. Jay Barrows 1st Bristol Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk Michael R. Knapik Second Hampden and Hampshire Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex Kenneth J. Donnelly Fourth Middlesex Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk 3rd Suffolk Christine E. Canavan 10th Plymouth Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. 12th Hampden Gale D. Candaras First Hampden and Hampshire Louis L. Kafka 8th Norfolk Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex Bruce J. Ayers 1st Norfolk Matthew A. Beaton 11th Worcester Robert M. Koczera 11th Bristol Rhonda Nyman 5th Plymouth Thomas J. Calter 12th Plymouth Angelo L. D'Emilia 8th Plymouth 4th Essex William C. Galvin 6th Norfolk Harold P. Naughton, Jr. 12th Worcester John J. Binienda 17th Worcester Lori A. Ehrlich 8th Essex William Smitty Pignatelli 4th Berkshire Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol Geoff Diehl 7th Plymouth Donald Humason James M. Murphy 4th Norfolk 11th Middlesex John J. Lawn, Jr. 10th Middlesex Katherine M. Clark Fifth Middlesex Paul W. Mark 2nd Berkshire Thomas M. McGee Third Essex Paul R. Heroux 2nd Bristol Patricia A. Haddad 5th Bristol Antonio F. D. Cabral 13th Bristol Joseph F. Wagner 8th Hampden Martin J. Walsh 13th Suffolk

2 of 3 Sean Curran 9th Hampden Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. 26th Middlesex Diana DiZoglio 14th Essex John H. Rogers 12th Norfolk Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex David Paul Linsky 5th Middlesex Frank I. Smizik 15th Norfolk Claire D. Cronin 11th Plymouth George N. Peterson, Jr. 9th Worcester Barry R. Finegold Second Essex and Middlesex Steven M. Walsh 11th Essex Anthony W. Petruccelli First Suffolk and Middlesex Robert L. Hedlund Plymouth and Norfolk Thomas P. Kennedy Second Plymouth and Bristol John V. Fernandes 10th Worcester Thomas A. Golden, Jr. 16th Middlesex 2nd Middlesex Randy Hunt 5th Barnstable

3 of 3 SENATE DOCKET, NO. 924 FILED ON: 1/17/2013 SENATE ...... No. 1298 By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1298) of James E. Timilty, Michael O. Moore, Mark J. Cusack, Paul J. Donato and other members of the General Court for legislation relative to the sanctity of collective bargaining. Public Service.

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION SEE SENATE, NO. 1390 OF 2011-2012.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

______In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen ______

An Act relative to the sanctity of collective bargaining.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 SECTION 1. Section 7(d) of chapter 150E of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 2 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (q), the following new 3 subsection:-

4 “(r ) sections one through thirty-one, inclusive, of chapter twenty-two C; provided, 5 however, that any provision of the collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to 6 chapter 150E by the Commonwealth and the employee organization representing the bargaining 7 unit of the non-commissioned officers of the department of state police which conflicts with any 8 provision of chapter twenty-two C can be suspended in the event of and only for the duration of 9 an emergency which requires such suspension. For purposes of the sub-section, an emergency is 10 defined as a condition in which the safety of the public is in imminent danger, such as a threat to 11 life or health or where immediate law enforcement intervention is required to maintain or restore 12 such public safety.”

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