Happy New Year! In today’s Union Station, we’ll review public-sector union legislation from 2022. Next week, we’ll look at bills filed so far for 2023.
Highlights
- State legislators either introduced or carried over from earlier sessions 150 bills related to public-sector union policy in 2022.
- Thirteen relevant bills were enacted. Republicans sponsored three of those bills, and Democrats or Democratic-led committees sponsored 10.
- Of the 150 bills Ballotpedia tracked in 2022, Democrats sponsored 92 bills to Republicans’ 46. The rest were bipartisan or committee bills.