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HB1704 Permitting public employees to bargain individually with public employers without any intervention.

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Permitting public employees to bargain individually with public employers without any intervention.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

4
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Your Wallet

Individual bargaining historically leads to lower wages and benefits for workers compared to collective bargaining.

4
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Your Community

Weakening public employee unions could reduce the quality of public services by making it harder to attract and retain teachers, firefighters, and other workers.

6
⚖️

Your Freedom

Gives individual employees the option to negotiate independently, though it may weaken collective worker protections.

Status

Indefinitely Postpone (Rep. B. Sullivan): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 177-159 03/11/2026 House Journal 7

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Brian Labrie (R)

The Short Version

Would allow public employees to negotiate directly with employers rather than through unions. This anti-union measure was indefinitely postponed (177-159), but aims to undermine collective bargaining by letting individuals bypass union representation.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Employees who prefer not to be represented by unions
  • ▲ Government employers seeking to reduce labor costs

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Public employee unions
  • ▼ Workers who benefit from collective bargaining protections
  • ▼ Public services if worker quality declines

Roll Call Detail (3 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 3 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 159 for , 21 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 156 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Special Order 2026-03-11
Passed

YES = Yes. NO = No.

12R + 155D
Voted Yea (167)
163R + 1D
Voted Nay (164)
38
Absent
23
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (167)

Republicans (12)
Democrats (155)

Voted Nay (164)

Republicans (163)
Democrats (1)
Absent (38)

Brian Seaworth (R) , Charles Melvin (R) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Kristine Perez (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Bordes (R) , Mike Drago (R) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Paul Terry (R) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tom Dolan (R) , Wayne Hemingway (R)

Adopt Floor Amendment 2026-03-11
Failed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

165R
Voted to Adopt Amendment (165)
15R + 156D
Voted Against Amendment (171)
37
Absent
19
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (165)

Republicans (165)

Voted Nay (171)

Republicans (15)
Democrats (156)
Absent (37)

Brian Seaworth (R) , Charles Melvin (R) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Kristine Perez (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Drago (R) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Paul Terry (R) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tom Dolan (R) , Wayne Hemingway (R)

Indefinitely Postpone 2026-03-11
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

21R + 156D
Voted to Kill the Bill (177)
159R
Voted to Keep It Alive (159)
37
Absent
19
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (177)

Republicans (21)
Democrats (156)

Voted Nay (159)

Republicans (159)
Absent (37)

Brian Seaworth (R) , Charles Melvin (R) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Kristine Perez (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Drago (R) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Paul Terry (R) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tom Dolan (R) , Wayne Hemingway (R)

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