Public Employees
Tennessee 111th General Assembly
As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. [SB-57]
As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda Gilmore
Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate State And Local Government Committee on 04/09/2019
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As enacted, replaces the awarding of treble damages under the Public Employee Political Freedom Act of 1980 with the awarding of compensatory damages. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 6. [HB-1087]
As enacted, replaces the awarding of treble damages under the Public Employee Political Freedom Act of 1980 with the awarding of compensatory damages. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 21 and Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 6.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rush Bricken
Pub. Ch. 446 on 05/29/2019
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Tennessee 111th General Assembly
As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8. [HB-978]
As introduced, prohibits public employers from discriminating against applicants for employment and employees with pregnancy-related conditions by not providing the applicants and employees with reasonable accommodations. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 8.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Cooper
Taken Off Notice For Cal In S/c Public Service & Employees Subcommittee Of State Committee on 04/03/2019
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Tennessee 111th General Assembly
As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to disclose on the department's website certain information related to state-funded travel for public employees to events at which state vendors or potential vendors are present. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 49. [HB-920]
As introduced, requires the commissioner of finance and administration to disclose on the department's website certain information related to state-funded travel for public employees to events at which state vendors or potential vendors are present. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 8; Title 12; Title 41 and Title 49.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jerome Moon
Assigned To S/c Public Service & Employees Subcommittee on 02/14/2019
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Mental Health Law - Involuntary Admissions - Procedures [SB-947]
Prohibiting a certain hearing officer from ordering the release of an individual who meets the requirements for involuntary admission under a certain provision of law on the grounds that the individual was kept at an emergency facility for more than 30 hours.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 730 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Public Health - Subcutaneous Implanting of Identification Device - Prohibition [SB-944]
Prohibiting a person or an agent, a representative, or a designee of the State or a local government from requiring, coercing, or compelling an individual to undergo a certain implanting of a certain identification device; authorizing an individual who is implanted with a subcutaneous identification device in violation of a certain provision of the Act to file a civil action in a certain court within 3 years after the date on which the identification device was implanted; providing for the prospective application of the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 453 on 05/08/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Metro Oversight Enhancement Act [SB-894]
Establishing certain requirements for the appointment and removal of the inspector general of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority by the Board of Directors of the Authority; specifying certain powers and requirements of the inspector general; requiring the Office of the Inspector General to be funded with a grant of at least 0.05% of the annual operating budget of the Authority; requiring that the Office of the Inspector General be operationally and functionally independent of the Authority; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/21/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Washington County Board of Education - Teachers and Other Personnel - Conclusion of Negotiations [SB-888]
Requiring parties to collective bargaining negotiations for teachers and other personnel in Washington County to make reasonable efforts to conclude negotiations in a timely manner; and requiring that, if parties are unable to conclude negotiations by a certain budget submission deadline, the terms and conditions of the most recent negotiated agreement shall remain in force and effect, and without change, for the next fiscal year.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 3/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/13/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Health – Emergency Evaluees and Involuntarily Admitted or Committed Individuals – Procedures [SB-864]
Requiring a health care provider to disclose certain medical and legal records without the authorization of an individual to a public defender who states in writing that the Office of the Public Defender represents the individual; requiring that only those records needed by the public defender to represent the individual shall be disclosed; requiring the records to be provided within 24 hours after a certain request; prohibiting a hearing officer from ordering the release of a certain individual on certain grounds; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 682 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Education – Collective Bargaining – Exclusive Representative’s Access to New Employee Processing [SB-819]
Requiring certain public school employers to provide an exclusive representative with access to new employee processing; requiring that the structure, time, and manner of certain access be determined through certain negotiations; requiring the public school employer to provide the exclusive representative with certain information within 30 days of the date of hire or by the first pay period after the date of hire; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Returned Passed on 04/07/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Public Information Act - Revisions [SB-788]
Providing that, except as otherwise provided by law, the Public Information Act does not authorize a custodian of records to allow the inspection of the Social Security number or date of birth of an individual except to a person in interest; requiring, except under certain circumstances, a custodian to deny inspection of a certain part of a personal surveillance video; requiring that a victim who is the subject of a record that is denied inspection be notified of all requests to inspect the record; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Recommitted To Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs (senator Conway) on 03/20/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Education - Salaries of Noncertificated Public School Employees - Minimum Living Salaries [SB-775]
Requiring that certain public school employees in certain areas be paid at least certain minimum living salaries; specifying the minimum living salaries that are in effect for certain time periods; increasing the minimum living salaries in effect for certain time periods based on a certain Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers; requiring that a certain minimum living salary remain the same as the salary that was in effect for a certain time period under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Employee Mentoring Leave [SB-727]
Entitling State employees to receive up to 40 hours per year of mentoring leave to mentor at-risk youth in certain approved organizations; requiring employees to match certain compensated time for mentoring with personal leave; requiring certain employees to assist with academic tutoring at public schools or nonprofit organizations or to engage in site or community-based mentoring; requiring the Department of Budget and Management to approve certain organizations; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/13/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Maryland Healthy Working Families Act - Exemptions [SB-712]
Repealing the inclusion of local governments in the definition of "employer" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing earned sick and safe leave; exempting from certain provisions of law governing earned sick and safe leave certain employees who are employed by county boards of education or nonprofit entities or who regularly work at facilities at which their employers offer the employees access to an on-site health clinic that has operating costs of at least $1,000,000 per year; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Andrew Serafini
First Reading Finance on 02/02/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Former Baltimore City Jail Employees [SB-620]
Providing that certain former Baltimore City Jail employees who are members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System and who meet certain criteria may receive a normal service retirement allowance that is based on certain service; and requiring the State Retirement Agency, on or before October 1, 2018, to notify certain individuals affected by the Act of their rights to apply certain service credit to the Correctional Officers' Retirement System.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 2/22 At 8:30 A.m. on 02/22/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees [SB-562]
Authorizing the principal of a public school to select any employee to administer certain assessments under certain circumstances; and requiring a local superintendent to review and approve a principal's employee selection for administering a certain assessment before the assessment is administered.
Sponsored by: Sen. Craig Zucker
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 384 on 05/08/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Compensation - Shift Differential Pay [SB-556]
Requiring that certain employees in the State Personnel Management System are entitled to certain rates of shift differential pay; and authorizing the Secretary of Budget and Management to adopt certain regulations to increase certain rates of shift differential pay.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/20/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bus Lane Monitoring Cameras - Authorization [SB-551]
Prohibiting a person from driving a motor vehicle in a dedicated bus lane unless authorized by a certain local jurisdiction, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting the use of a bus lane monitoring camera in a local jurisdiction unless authorized by the governing body by local law enacted after reasonable notice and a public hearing; requiring a local jurisdiction, before using a bus lane monitoring camera, to publish notice of the use of the bus lane monitoring camera in a certain manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/27/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Garrett County - Bids and Contracts [SB-540]
Increasing from $15,000 to $25,000 the threshold amount of a certain contract of sale or purchase entered into by the County Commissioners of Garrett County or a county employee above which the county is required to advertise for bids.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Edwards
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 699 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Employees in the Same Classification - Report [SB-464]
Requiring the Department of Budget and Management, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Transportation, to submit to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee by January 1, 2020, a report outlining a certain plan and identifying certain information.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 690 on 05/15/2018