LAWRENCE J. HOGAN, JR., Governor Ch. 489
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Chapter 489
(House Bill 374)
AN ACT concerning
Maryland School for the Deaf – Professional Personnel and Staff – Service
Designation, Assignment, and Placement in a Collective Bargaining Unit
FOR the purpose of establishing that professional personnel and staff employed by the
Maryland School for the Deaf are in the professional and skilled services of the State
Personnel Management System; requiring that the Secretary of Budget and
Management assign the professional personnel and staff to the professional and
skilled services of the State Personnel Management System and to certain
bargaining units; requiring that the professional personnel and staff suffer no
diminution of pay or benefits; and generally relating to professional personnel and
staff of the Maryland School for the Deaf.
BY adding to
Article – Education
Section 8–3A–04(l)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article – Education
8–3A–04.
(L) PROFESSIONAL PERSONNE L AND STAFF EMPLOYED BY THE MARYLAND
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ARE IN THE PROFESSIONAL AND SKI LLED SERVICE S IN THE
STATE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, before December 31, 2022, the Secretary of Budget and Management shall
assign all professional personnel and staff classifications and positions of the Maryland
School for the Deaf to the professional and skilled services in the State Personnel
Management System, and the Secretary shall assign all positions in the professional and
skilled services, except for faculty at the Maryland School for the Deaf, to bargaining unit
A, B, C, D, F, or H.
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, an employee of the Maryland School for the Deaf:
Ch. 489 2022 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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(1) migrated to the State Personnel Management System or assigned to a
bargaining unit by the Secretary of Budget and Management shall suffer no diminution of
pay or benefits resulting from the migration or assignment; and
(2) in the course of a migration for assignment, may be placed on a new
salary schedule only at a grade and step that results in a greater annual rate of pay.
SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July
1, 2022.
Enacted under Article II, § 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution, May 29, 2022.