SB 750 Maryland Senate · 2025 Regular Session

State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Part-Time Faculty

SB 750 grants collective bargaining rights to part-time faculty at Maryland's public institutions of higher education, including community colleges and universities. The bill expands the definition of "faculty" to explicitly include part-time and adjunct employees with academic responsibilities (such as teaching or research), excluding supervisors, confidential staff, and student employees. It establishes separate bargaining units for these faculty members and allows units to combine into a single bargaining unit. This change modifies Maryland's State Personnel and Pensions Article to formally include part-time faculty under collective bargaining protections previously limited to full-time staff.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 31, 2025 Last action Mar 21, 2025
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What changed between versions

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MODERATE
SB 750 was amended to specifically target part-time faculty rather than all faculty, clarifying that the collective bargaining rights apply only to nontenure track temporary, contingent, or contractual adjunct employees whose primary assignments involve academic classroom instruction. The bill also added restrictions preventing certain bargaining units from electing to engage in consolidated collective bargaining and corrected a grammatical error in the definition of collective bargaining units.
Scope change
The bill's scope narrowed from covering all faculty to specifically covering part-time faculty, and added limitations on how bargaining units can combine.
SCOPE

Changed the bill title and purpose from 'Faculty' to 'Faculty Part-Time Faculty' to clarify it applies only to part-time faculty.

ELIGIBILITY

Added specific criteria for part-time faculty eligibility: nontenure track temporary, contingent, or contractual adjunct employees whose primary assignments involve academic classroom instructional responsibilities and who teach more than one class per semester.

REQUIREMENT

Added new restrictions prohibiting certain bargaining units from electing to engage in consolidated collective bargaining.

DEFINITION

Updated the definition of 'Employee organization' to reference part-time faculty instead of all faculty.

TECHNICAL

Added explanatory note that underlining indicates amendments to the bill.

Corrected grammatical error in the definition of collective bargaining by changing 'establishing separate collective bargaining units for certain faculty' to 'establishing a separate collective bargaining units unit for certain faculty part-time faculty'.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 28, 2025

How they voted

2912
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 46
Feb 28, 2025
D Democratic33
28 Yea 5
84% Yea
R Republican13
1 Yea 12 Nay
92% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
11
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
Referred Appropriations
lower
Mar 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Third Reading Passed
upper
Mar 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable with Amendments {
upper
Mar 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
upper
Feb 28, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (29-12-5)
senate
Jan 31, 2025
Committee
First Reading Finance
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Ben Kramer
DDemocratic
MD
19