[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4854 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4854

  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect the rights of 
    emergency medical technicians employed by acute care hospitals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2000

    Mr. Martinez (for himself, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Gutierrez, Mrs. 
    Napolitano, Mr. Payne, and Mrs. Mink of Hawaii) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Labor Relations Act to protect the rights of 
    emergency medical technicians employed by acute care hospitals.

    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 ``EMS Employee Equality Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN UNITS.

    Section 9(b) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(b)) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating clauses (2) and (3) as (3) and (4), 
        respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after clause (1) the following: ``(2) 
        decide that a unit composed of emergency medical technicians, 
        employed by an acute care hospital, whose primary duty is to 
        provide emergency medical services before arrival to a hospital 
        or ambulance transportation, and other employees is appropriate 
        unless a majority of such emergency medical technicians vote 
        for inclusion in such unit; or''.
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