What is the status of HB 2626? You can get e-mail updates.

HB 2626 has been introduced in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It is a facially neutral bill that will provide the employees of religiously-affiliated schools with the same rights to organize a union as those now enjoyed by all other workers in the state of Pennsylvania - a right based on one of the freedoms prescribed in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights - freedom of assembly.

The bill has been carefully crafted by legal scholars in order to be certain that in its application it will not present any threat to the principle of separation of church and state. Similarly structured laws have already faced and passed court scrutiny in other states such as New York and Minnesota.

The bill is now in the House of Representatives Labor Relations Committee and will soon be scheduled for hearings in various areas around the State.

Click on this link for a copy of the HB 2626: HB%202626.pdf

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