1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2019 . 2. Definitions (a) In general In this Act: (1) Authority The term Authority means the Federal Labor Relations Authority. (2) Appropriate unit The term appropriate unit means a bargaining unit of public employees or supervisory employees that share a community of interest, have a bargaining history or history of prior organization, and represents the desires of employees seeking representation. (3) Collective bargaining The term collective bargaining , used with respect to public employees, supervisory employees, and public employers, means the performance of the mutual obligation of the representative of a public employer and the exclusive representative of public and supervisory employees in an appropriate unit of the employer to meet at reasonable times and to consult and bargain in a good-faith effort to reach agreement with respect to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment affecting such employees and to execute, if requested by either party, a written document incorporating any collective bargaining agreement reached, but the obligation referred to in this paragraph does not compel either party to agree to a proposal or to make a concession (as described in section 8(d) of the National Labor Relations Act ( 29 U.S.C. 158(d) )). (4) Confidential employee The term confidential employee means an employee of a public employer who acts in a confidential capacity with respect to an individual who formulates or effectuates management policies in the field of labor-management relations. (5) Emergency services employee The term emergency services employee means— (A) a public employee providing out-of-hospital emergency medical care, including an emergency medical technician, paramedic, or first responder