Sponsor
Robert F. Onder
Representative · R-MO
Representative · R-MO
The bill improves accountability for unions by requiring audit results in reports, benefiting members and taxpayers, but it increases compliance costs for some unions and risks exposing sensitive financial details.
Union members and other stakeholders (including taxpayers) will get clearer, consolidated access to any available audit results because reports must include those audit findings.
Union members and taxpayers will face a lower risk of misuse of union funds because increased audit transparency improves oversight and deters financial mismanagement.
Unions and third parties may have sensitive financial or contractual details exposed by publicly included audit results, raising privacy and confidentiality concerns.
Smaller or resource-limited labor organizations may incur additional administrative and compliance costs to compile and include audit results in reports.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires labor organizations to include results of any financial audit they can access in their constitution/bylaws report under the LMRDA.
Official title: To amend the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require labor organizations to include results of certain audits in financial reports, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 9, 2026 by Robert F. Onder · Last progress July 9, 2026
Requires labor organizations to include the results of any financial audit they have access to in their constitution/bylaws report filed under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). The audit-results disclosure requirement applies to reports submitted under Title II that are filed six months or more after the law is enacted. Also makes minor punctuation and connector edits to existing statutory paragraphs without changing substantive duties other than the new audit-results reporting requirement.