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SENATE BILL 955
P4, F5 2lr3180
CF HB 374
By: Senator Benson
Introduced and read first time: February 14, 2022
Assigned to: Rules
Re–referred to: Budget and Taxation, February 21, 2022
Re–referred to: Finance, February 23, 2022
Committee Report: Favorable
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: March 13, 2022
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Maryland School for the Deaf – Professional Personnel and Staff – Service 2
Designation, Assignment, and Placement in a Collective Bargaining Unit 3
FOR the purpose of establishing that professional personnel and staff employed by the 4
Maryland School for the Deaf are in the professional and skilled services of the State 5
Personnel Management System; requiring that the Secretary of Budget and 6
Management assign the professional personnel and staff to the professional and 7
skilled services of the State Personnel Management System and to certain 8
bargaining units; requiring that the professional personnel and staff suffer no 9
diminution of pay or benefits; and generally relating to professional personnel and 10
staff of the Maryland School for the Deaf. 11
BY adding to 12
Article – Education 13
Section 8–3A–04(l) 14
Annotated Code of Maryland 15
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 16
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 17
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18
Article – Education 19
2 SENATE BILL 955
8–3A–04. 1
(L) PROFESSIONAL PERSONNE L AND STAFF EMPLOYED BY THE MARYLAND 2
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ARE IN THE PROFE SSIONAL AND SKILLED SERVICES IN THE 3
STATE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. 4
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any other 5
provision of law, before December 31, 2022, the Secretary of Budget and Management shall 6
assign all professional personnel and staff classifications and positions of the Maryland 7
School for the Deaf to the professional and skilled services in the State Personnel 8
Management System, and the Secretary shall assign all positions in the professional and 9
skilled services, except for faculty at the Maryland School for the Deaf, to bargaining unit 10
A, B, C, D, F, or H. 11
SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, notwithstanding any other 12
provision of law, an employee of the Maryland School for the Deaf: 13
(1) migrated to the State Personnel Management System or assigned to a 14
bargaining unit by the Secretary of Budget and Management shall suffer no diminution of 15
pay or benefits resulting from the migration or assignment; and 16
(2) in the course of a migration for assignment, may be placed on a new 17
salary schedule only at a grade and step that results in a greater annual rate of pay. 18
SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 19
1, 2022. 20
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.