A House Education and Workforce subcommittee hearing featured partisan exchanges over whether unions spend members' dues on political causes that do not reflect rank-and-file views, with witnesses offering contrasting evidence on spending patterns and research on unions' benefits.

Greg Murad of the National Right to Work Committee told the subcommittee that forced dues and monopoly bargaining compel workers to support political programs they oppose and urged Congress to pass the National Right to Work Act to make support voluntary.

After extended debate and a series of failed amendments focused on transparency, small‑business exemptions and reauthorization, the Colorado Senate passed House Bill 10‑05 — the Workers Protection Act — which removes a second, higher‑threshold union election and changes how union security provisions can be implemented.

Governor DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1296 and House Bill 1279 at Fort Myers High School, saying the measures will let educators decertify unions that lack support and speed delivery of state pay increases to teachers; local officials said the laws helped Lee County fill vacancies and target incentives to hard-to-staff schools.

A House State Affairs committee approved CS/4 for HB 995 after hours of debate and public testimony; the bill raises disclosure and recertification thresholds for public‑sector unions, narrows paid‑leave rules for union activities, and expedites impasse resolution for legislatively funded salary increases. Proponents said the changes increase member accountability; opponents called it an anti‑union overhaul that risks constitutional problems.

The House Committee on Labor advanced Senate Bill 312, which would require annual employee notice of rights to join or refrain from joining labor organizations and allow quicker payroll-withholding stops; members and union representatives clashed over whether recently adopted technical amendments create unneeded bureaucracy and potential administrative fees.

The Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations reported SB312 with amendments after Senator Talbot said the bill would let public employees stop union dues deductions immediately; unions and educators raised unresolved implementation questions about who sends notices, who pays administrative costs and whether certain definitions and exclusions need fixing.