SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — A controversial bill seeking to limit or ban public labor unions’ collective bargaining power remains on pause, and Utah Senate leaders said Monday they are unsure when it will be revisited.
H.B. 267 “Public Sector Labor Union Amendments” was circled — or temporarily postponed — on Friday after passing its second reading in the Utah Senate the day prior. The final vote was postponed after the sponsor teased a compromise following continued public scrutiny of the bill.
While the original bill sought to bar public unions from collective bargaining, the substitute would allow for bargaining as long as a simple majority of the employee class voted in favor of the union representing them.
At the time, Senate leaders said they would give senators and the public the weekend to read over the substitute bill before a vote. On Monday, the bill remained uncircled, and Majority Leader Sen. Kirk Cullimore said they don’t have a timeline yet as to when it will move forward.
“There’s a lot of work going on right now trying to figure out where everybody’s at. It may take a day, it may take a couple days, I don’t know,” Cullimore said.
Cullimore said they are receiving “mixed messaging” on support for the substitute bill.
“There’s a lot of confusion on that bill,” President J. Stuart Adams added. “We came up with a good substitute and I’m trying to figure out if there’s support for that or not.”
The Senate leaders said if there is not solid support for the compromise, then the original bill will be voted on.
Lindsay Aerts contributed to this report.
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