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Minutes for HB2586 - Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Short Title
Affording public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.
Minutes Content for Wed, Feb 12, 2020
Chairperson Tarwater opened the hearing on HB2586 and recognized Charles Reimer, Assistant Revisor, Office of Revisor of Statutes, who gave an overview of the bill and answered questions.
Chairperson Tarwater welcomed Dave Trabert, CEO, Kansas Policy Institute, to give oral testimony on this bill. (Attachment 1)
Other conferees giving oral proponent testimony were:
Mark Janus, Plaintiff, Supreme Court Case, Janus vs. AFSCME (Attachment 2)
Elizabeth Patton, Deputy Director, Americans for Prosperity-Kansas (Attachment 3)
Rebecca Friedrichs, elementary school teacher in California (Attachment 4)
Vincent Vernuccio, Senior Fellow, Workers for Opportunity (Attachment 5)
Conferees stood for questions.
There were no other oral proponents, written-only proponents or opponents for this bill.
Written-only opponent testimony was offered by the following:
Sarah LaFrenz, President, Kansas Organization of State Employees (Attachment 6)
Lynette Lewis, State of Kansas Employee (Attachment 7)
Leonard Fishburn, Vice President, Kansas Organization of State Employees (Attachment 8)
Genea Norris, State Employee (Attachment 9)
Neil Diedker, Secretary, Kansas Organization of State Employees (Attachment 10)
Diane Walker, Steward, Kansas Organization of State Employees (Attachment 11)
David Galvan, Organizer, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 304 (Attachment 12)
Mike Scribner, President, Teamsters Local Union 696 (Attachment 13)
Terry Forsyth, Kansas National Education Association (Attachment 14)
John Nave, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO (Attachment 15)
Mik Sanks, Kansas State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police (Attachment 16)
Jake Miller, Working Kansas Alliance (Attachment 17)
Mike T. Kane, Unified Government Commissioner, Wyandotte County, Kansas (Attachment 18)
There was no oral neutral or written-only neutral testimony.
Chairperson Tarwater noticed that several of the written-only opponents were present and offered them a chance to testify in person and answer questions regarding their testimony. There were no takers.
The meeting adjourned at 2:43 p.m.
The next meeting of the House Commerce, Labor, and Economic Development Committee is scheduled for February 13, 2020.
