Great news! HB 2326 would have changed teacher negotiations to allow districts to offer teachers individual “take it or leave it” contracts. Rep. Boldra amended HB 2326 to contain the consensus negotiations bill supported by the superintendents association, the school administrators association, the school board association and the teachers union. Several legislators said it was wrong to tell those parties to negotiate a bill, and then refuse to accept the bill they support. The bill as amended passed. We remain wary of changes to this bill later in the session, but celebrate this vote.
After an initial vote of 67-52, the vote on final action was 109-14.
Voting against the bill in the initial vote were:
Barker, Barton, Bruchman, Brunk, Carpenter, Carpenter, Claeys, Corbet, Couture-Lovelady, Davis, DeGraaf, Edmonds, Esau, Garber, Goico, Grosserode, Hawkins, Hedke, Highland, Hildabrand, Hoffman, Houser, Huebert, Hutton, Jones, Kahrs, Kelley, Kiegerl, Kleeb, Lunn, Macheers, Mason, Mast, McPherson, Merrick, O’Brien, Osterman, Peck, Powell, Read, Rhoades, Rubin, Ryckman, Scapa, Schwab, Schwartz, Suellentrop, Sutton, Thimesch, Todd, Vickrey, Whitmer.
The final vote was:
Yea – (109): Alcala, Alford, Anthimides, Ballard, Barker, Becker, Billinger, Boldra, Bollier, Bridges, Bruchman, Burroughs, Campbell, Carlin, Carmichael, Carpenter, Carpenter, Claeys, Clark, Clayton, Concannon, Corbet, Couture-Lovelady, Curtis, Davis, Dierks, Doll, Dove, Edmonds, Esau, Estes, Ewy, Finch, Finney, Francis, Frownfelter, Gallagher, Goico, Gonzalez, Grosserode, Hawkins, Hedke, Hemsley, Henderson, Henry, Hibbard, Highberger, Hildabrand, Hill, Hineman, Hoffman, Houser, Houston, Huebert, Hutchins, Hutton, Jennings, Johnson, Jones, Kahrs, Kelley, Kelly, Kiegerl, Kleeb, Kuether, Lane, Lunn, Lusk, Lusker, Mason, Mast, Merrick, Moxley, O’Brien, Osterman, Ousley, Patton, Pauls, Phillips, Powell, Proehl, Read, Rooker, Ruiz, Ryckman, Ryckman Sr., Scapa, Schroeder, Schwab, Schwartz, Seiwert, Sloan, Smith, Suellentrop, Sutton, Swanson, Thimesch, Thompson, Tietze, Todd, Trimmer, Victors, Ward, Waymaster, Whipple, Williams, Wilson, Winn, Wolfe Moore.
Nay – (14):Barton, Bradford, Brunk, DeGraaf, Garber, Highland, Jones, Macheers, McPherson, Peck, Rhoades, Rubin, Vickrey, Whitmer.
Absent and Not Voting – (1):Sawyer.