At the Labor & Workplace Standards Committee hearing Friday, March 14, Senator Ramos presented a reorganization bill intended to restructure the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Act into chapters and subheadings to improve readability and statutory clarity.

Ben McCarthy, staff to the committee, briefed the bill and said it “reorganizes and adds sub chapter headings to the Public Employees Collective Bargaining Act” and noted the act covers collective bargaining for city and county employees, municipal corporations, certain state uniformed personnel, some higher‑education employees, and particular categories such as adult family home providers and childcare workers who are treated as public employees only for collective‑bargaining purposes. Staff also said the bill would repeal two sections—one an emergency clause and the other a cross‑reference section.

Senator Ramos described the proposal as non‑policy housekeeping to make the statute easier to read after many incremental changes over the years. He said, “there's no policy change here involved whatsoever. It's really just so that folks can more easily read the act, follow, and make sure everything's connected.” The committee recorded no public testimony on the item and no amendments were reported in the hearing record.