SB 1766 – Public Employees Relations Commission

• Requires certification, recertification, and decertification elections for non-public-safety bargaining units to be decided by a majority of all employees in the unit rather than just those voting, while public safety employee units retain the majority-of-those-voting standard

• Defines "employee organization activities" broadly (political activity, lobbying, membership solicitation, grievance filing, collective bargaining, etc.) and prohibits public employers from providing any compensation or paid leave to employees for engaging in such activities, with limited exceptions for personal leave use and reimbursed representational activities

• Strengthens registration renewal requirements for bargaining agents by mandating disclosure of dues-paying membership numbers, requiring recertification petitions within 30 days of completing renewal when fewer than 60 percent of unit employees are dues-paying members, and allowing public employers or employees to challenge renewal applications as materially inaccurate

• Sets the PERC chair's annual salary equal to that of a circuit court judge and other commissioners' salaries at 50 percent of the chair's salary, and increases strike violation fines from $20,000 to $120,000 per day for employee organizations and from $50–$100 to $300–$600 per day for individual officers

• Requires employee organizations to revoke membership and cease dues collection within 30 days of receiving a written revocation, bars organizations whose certification is revoked from filing a new certification petition covering the same employees for at least 12 months, and repeals s. 447.308 relating to revocation of certification