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HOUSE BILL 983
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CF SB 1080
By: Delegates Guzzone, R. Lewis, Martinez, White Holland, and Woods
Introduced and read first time: February 5, 2024
Assigned to: Appropriations
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 5, 2024
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
State Personnel – Maryland Department of Health – Pay Rates 2
FOR the purpose of increasing the number of certain bargaining units for the purpose of 3
specifying certain pay rates for certain Maryland Department of Health employees; 4
requiring that the pay rates for certain employees of the Department who are in 5
certain bargaining units and who work at the Regional Institutes for Children and 6
Adolescents certain facilities be equal set at or calculated at a certain rate compared 7
to certain pay rates of the employees who work at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital; and 8
generally relating to the pay rates of employees of the Maryland Department of 9
Health. 10
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 11
Article – State Personnel and Pensions 12
Section 8–203(a) 13
Annotated Code of Maryland 14
(2015 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 15
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 16
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 17
Article – State Personnel and Pensions 18
8–203. 19
2 HOUSE BILL 983
(a) (1) This subsection applies to employees in the Maryland Department of 1
Health who: 2
(i) have direct contact with patients; and 3
(ii) are in a position classified in one of the following bargaining 4
units: 5
1. Bargaining Unit D for Health and Human Services 6
Non–Professionals; 7
2. Bargaining Unit E for Health Care Professionals; 8
3. Bargaining Unit F for Social and Human Services 9
Professionals; [or] 10
4. BARGAINING UNIT G FOR ENGINEERING, 11
SCIENTIFIC, AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS CLASSIFIED AS A TEAC HER OR 12
A LIBRARIAN; OR 13
5. Bargaining Unit H for Public Safety and Security 14
Personnel. 15
(2) The pay rate for an employee at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital who is 16
not receiving a forensic pay premium shall be at least two grades higher than the 17
employee’s pay rate effective June 30, 2020. 18
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the pay rate for an 19
employee in the Behavioral Health Administration or the Developmental Disabilities 20
Administration shall be equal to A PAY RATE TWO GRADES HIGH ER OR CALCULATED 21
AT THE EQUIVALENT OF TWO GRADES HIGHER TH AN the pay rate effective July 1, 2020, 22
for similarly trained, qualified, or licensed employees at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital if 23
the employee works at: 24
(I) a facility that had a forensic admission rate greater than 75% for 25
the immediately preceding fiscal year; OR 26
(II) THE REGIONAL INSTITUTES FOR CHILDREN AND 27
ADOLESCENTS – BALTIMORE AND ROCKVILLE. 28
(4) This subsection may not be construed to decrease the pay rate of any 29
employee. 30
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 31
1, 2024. 32