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An Act To Ensure Transparency in Public Union Negotiations
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶F, as amended by PL 2009, c. 334, §2, is further amended to read:
 
F. Any advisory organization, including any authority, board, commission, committee, council, task force or similar organization of an advisory nature, established, authorized or organized by law or resolve or by Executive Order issued by the Governor and not otherwise covered by this subsection, unless the law, resolve or Executive Order establishing, authorizing or organizing the advisory organization specifically exempts the organization from the application of this subchapter; and
Sec. 2. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶G, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 334, §3, is amended to read:
 
G. The committee meetings, subcommittee meetings and full membership meetings of any association that:
 
(1) Promotes, organizes or regulates statewide interscholastic activities in public schools or in both public and private schools; and
 
(2) Receives its funding from the public and private school members, either through membership dues or fees collected from those schools based on the number of participants of those schools in interscholastic activities.
 
This paragraph applies to only those meetings pertaining to interscholastic sports and does not apply to any meeting or any portion of any meeting the subject of which is limited to personnel issues, allegations of interscholastic athletic rule violations by member schools, administrators, coaches or student athletes or the eligibility of an individual student athlete or coach.; and
Sec. 3.  1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ¶H  is enacted to read:
 
H.  All collective bargaining meetings between a public employer and a collective bargaining unit conducted pursuant to Title 26, chapters 9-A, 9-B and 14.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the Freedom of Access Act by making collective bargaining meetings between public employers and a collective bargaining unit conducted pursuant to the municipal public employees labor relations laws, the state employees labor relations laws or the judicial employees labor relations laws public proceedings under the Act and therefore subject to the open meeting and notice requirements of the Act.