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2026 Regular Session

SB84

State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants

Earlier-session bill · introduced 2025

Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at the University of Maryland, College Park or the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student who is a teaching, administrative, or research assistant or in a comparable position, a fellow, or a postdoctoral intern; and establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for the graduate assistants.

Legislative progress

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Introduced in Senate January 14, 2026 Senate passed March 23, 2026

Recorded floor votes

1 roll call are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

March 23, 2026 · Senate

Third Reading Passed

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

30 yea–11 nay · 2 not voting · 4 absent

View roll call

Committee referrals

January 14, 2026 · Senate

Finance

Instrument history

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  1. House Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Government, Labor, and Elections)
  2. House Referred Government, Labor, and Elections Appropriations
  3. Senate Third Reading Passed (30-11) View roll call
  4. Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments View roll call
  5. Senate Floor Amendment {963528/1 (Senator Corderman) Rejected
  6. Senate Favorable with Amendments {893924/1 Adopted View roll call
  7. Senate Motion Laid Over (Senator Corderman) Adopted View roll call
  8. Senate Favorable with Amendments {893924/1
  9. Senate Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
  10. Senate Hearing 1/29 at 3:00 p.m.
  11. Senate First Reading Finance
  12. Senate Pre-filed
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