Federal Aviation Administration Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006

Federal Aviation Administration Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006 - Amends federal transportation law to revise certain federal aviation administration personnel management system requirements to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from implementing any proposed change to the FAA personnel management system in cases where the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service do not lead to an agreement between the Administrator and FAA employees unless a bill is enacted into law by Congress that authorizes the change during the 60-day period beginning from the time Congress received the proposed change. (Current law does not require congressional action.) Requires the Administrator and FAA employee bargaining representatives to submit the proposed change to binding arbitration if Congress does not enact a bill into law within the 60-day period.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2201 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2201

  To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the mediation and 
 implementation requirements of section 40122 regarding changes in the 
 Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 26, 2006

 Mr. Obama (for himself, Mr. Inouye, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Lautenberg) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
           Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the mediation and 
 implementation requirements of section 40122 regarding changes in the 
 Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Aviation Administration Fair 
Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

    Section 40122(a)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
            ``(2) Implementation of disputed plan.--
                    ``(A) Mediation.--If the Administrator does not 
                reach an agreement under paragraph (1) with the 
                exclusive bargaining representatives, the services of 
                the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall be 
                used to attempt to reach such agreement.
                    ``(B) Congressional action.--If the services of the 
                Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service do not lead 
                to an agreement, the Administrator shall transmit to 
                the Senate and the House of Representatives the 
                proposed change to the personnel management system, 
                together with the objections of the exclusive 
                bargaining representatives to the change and the 
                reasons for such objections. The Administrator may not 
                implement the proposed change unless a bill is enacted 
                into law that specifically authorizes the change during 
                the 60-day period beginning on the date on which both 
                Houses of Congress receive the proposed change 
                transmitted by the Administrator. For purposes of this 
                subparagraph, the 60-day period shall not include any 
                period during which Congress has adjourned sine die.
                    ``(C) Binding arbitration.--If a bill described in 
                subparagraph (B) is not enacted into law within the 60-
                day period, the Administrator and the bargaining 
                representatives shall submit the proposed change to 
                binding arbitration in accordance with the provisions 
                of subchapter IV of chapter 5 of title 5, United States 
                Code.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall apply to changes described in 
section 40122(a)(1) of title 49, United States Code, being negotiated 
on or after the date of the introduction of this Act.
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