Title: Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100.
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
This concurrent resolution provides for seven days of sick leave for railroad employees under the terms of the the most recent tentative agreements, side letters, and local carrier agreements entered into by the parties to the disputes between certain railroads and labor organizations.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 119 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 119

     Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 29, 2022

 Mr. DeFazio submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in 
 addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
     Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 100.

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That, in the enrollment of the joint resolution H.J. Res. 100, the 
Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the following 
corrections:
            (1) Amend section 1--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection 
                (c); and
                    (B) by inserting after subsection (a) the 
                following:
    ``(b) Paid Sick Leave.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any tentative agreements, side letters, 
        or local carrier agreements entered into by the parties and 
        ratified before the date of enactment of this joint resolution 
        and the tentative agreements, side letters, and local carrier 
        agreements made binding by subsection (a) shall, beginning 60 
        days after the date of enactment of this joint resolution, 
        provide--
                    ``(A) for 7 days of paid sick leave annually, 
                except that nothing in this subparagraph shall 
                supersede any existing labor agreement between such 
                parties that provides for more than 7 days of paid sick 
                leave annually; and
                    ``(B) that the use of any 7 days of paid sick leave 
                annually, regardless of whether such days are provided 
                under a tentative agreement, side letter, or local 
                carrier agreement or under an existing labor agreement 
                described in subparagraph (A), will not result in any 
                points, demerits, or disciplinary citations under any 
                party's attendance policy.
            ``(2) Effect.--The modification referenced in paragraph (1) 
        shall each have the same effect as though arrived at by 
        agreement of such parties under the Railway Labor Act (45 
        U.S.C. 151 et seq.).''.
            (2) Redesignate section 2 as section 3.
            (3) After section 1, insert the following:

``SEC. 2. NEGOTIATIONS AND ARBITRATION.

    ``(a) Negotiations.--The parties to the disputes subject to 
Presidential Emergency Board No. 250, established pursuant to Executive 
Order 14077 of July 15, 2022, shall negotiate the implementation of the 
7 days of paid sick leave imposed on such parties by section 1(b).
    ``(b) Binding Arbitration.--If, after 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this joint resolution, the parties are not able to reach 
agreement on the matter described in subsection (a), such parties shall 
enter into binding arbitration on such matter to provide for a final 
resolution of such unresolved matter.
    ``(c) Arbitration.--The arbitration described in subsection (b) 
shall be conducted pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the 
Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 157), and any award shall be enforceable 
under section 9 of the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C. 159), except that, 
in the public interest, compensation and expenses of the arbitrators 
shall be borne equally by the parties.
    ``(d) Deadline.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this joint resolution, any binding arbitration proceeding entered 
into pursuant to subsection (b) shall be completed, including issuance 
of any award by the arbitration board.''.
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