2021 Senate Bill 779

Replace law governing fiscally failed local governments and schools

Introduced in the Senate

Dec. 8, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Jim Ananich (D-27)

To repeal a 2012 law that replaced the state’s previous “Emergency Manager” law with a new one that gave fiscally-failed cities or school districts a choice of either entering a reform plan consent agreement with the state, entering mediation to create such a plan, being allowed to declare bankruptcy in federal court, or having an emergency manager appointed with the authority to invalidate unaffordable or unsustainable government union contracts.

Referred to the Committee on Local Government