State Government - Personnel
Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Pre-Tax Transportation Fringe Benefit - Requirement (Maryland Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit Act) [HB-540]
Requiring certain employers to provide certain employees an opportunity to use a certain pre-tax transportation fringe benefit; authorizing an employee to file a written complaint with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry under certain circumstances; authorizing the Commissioner to attempt to resolve a certain matter informally or request the Attorney General to bring a certain action on behalf of the employee; providing that an employer that violates the Act is subject to a certain civil penalty; etc.
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State Personnel - Employees in the Same Classification - Report [HB-523]
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.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Compensation - Shift Differential Pay [HB-504]
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.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - State Institutions of Higher Education [HB-451]
Clarifying that a member of the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board may petition the circuit court to order certain entities to comply with an order from the Board; establishing that the failure to meet an established negotiation deadline is an unfair labor practice for certain entities under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel – Grievance Procedures [HB-335]
Expanding the application of provisions of law governing grievance procedures for certain State employees; requiring a grievant to complete certain forms in sufficient detail that will allow for the expeditious resolution of the grievance; and applying a certain definition of "grievance" to a certain requirement that the Department of Transportation adopt certain regulations relating to employee grievance procedures.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Rights and Protections for Nursing Mothers [HB-306]
Requiring the State, through its appropriate officers and employees, to provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child after the child's birth each time the employee needs to express the milk and, on notice, to provide a certain place that may be used by an employee to express breast milk; and prohibiting the State from being required to compensate an employee receiving reasonable break time for any time spent expressing breast milk at work.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Misconduct in Office - Public Official [HB-276]
Providing that, for the purpose of the common law crime of misconduct in office, a public official includes a person employed in the executive service or management service of the Executive Branch of State government.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Higher Education - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants (Graduate Assistant Collective Bargaining Fairness Act) [HB-199]
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at certain public institutions of higher education; establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for certain graduate assistants; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Government - Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity and the Commission on Genocide Prevention [HB-1787]
Requiring the State Treasurer to ensure that any shares held by the State are voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that ask companies to adopt policies refusing to do business with governments engaging in genocide or crimes against humanity; requiring, when issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, certain units of State government to require a certain bidder or offeror to disclose any company policy regarding a refusal to do business with governments that are engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority Police - Collective Bargaining - Binding Recommendations of Fact Finder [HB-1741]
Requiring that the written recommendations of a fact finder are binding in a collective bargaining dispute between the Maryland Transportation Authority and the exclusive representative of certain Maryland Transportation Authority police officers.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Maryland Rx Program - Pharmacy Benefits Managers - Contracts With Pharmacies and Pharmacists [HB-1639]
Prohibiting the Department of Budget and Management from contracting with a pharmacy benefits manager under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
University of Maryland University College - Collective Bargaining - Adjunct Faculty [HB-163]
Providing collective bargaining rights to adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland University College; defining "adjunct faculty" as an employee of the University of Maryland University College who serves in a nonpermanent position in which student instruction is a primary duty; specifying that "adjunct faculty" does not include a graduate student employee; establishing collective bargaining units for adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland University College; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State–Occupied Buildings – Child Care Centers – Requirements and Renovations [HB-1610]
Requiring, instead of authorizing, the State Department of Education to establish child care centers for the children of State employees in State-occupied buildings under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to survey certain employees and make certain determinations under certain circumstances before the State renovates a certain building; and repealing the pilot program for child care in State-occupied buildings and State complexes.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel – Employee Mentoring Leave [HB-1525]
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.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Discrimination Against Medical Cannabis Patients and Caregivers - Prohibition (Medical Cannabis Patient and Caregiver Antidiscrimination Act) [HB-1496]
Prohibiting, except under certain circumstances, a certain employer from taking certain discriminatory actions against or otherwise penalizing a qualifying patient or caregiver based on the individual's status as a qualifying patient or caregiver or, with respect to a certain qualifying patient, a certain drug test result; authorizing certain individuals to file a complaint with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Personnel - Sexual Harassment Prevention Training - Required [HB-1423]
Requiring each State employee to complete at least a cumulative 2 hours of in-person or virtual, interactive training on sexual harassment prevention within 6 months after the employee's initial appointment and every 2-year period thereafter; requiring that the training include certain information; requiring the Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator to enforce certain requirements for certain units of the Executive Branch; authorizing the Coordinator to recommend that a performance audit or review be conducted; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Healthy Working Families Act - Delay of Effective Date [HB-1417]
Delaying the effective date of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program – Employees of Qualifying Organizations [HB-1400]
Providing that participation by certain organizations in the State employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program may not impede, undermine, or conflict with certain obligations or statuses; authorizing an employee of a county board to participate in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; establishing the Task Force to Study Cooperative Purchasing for Health Insurance; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 1, 2020; etc.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Maryland Healthy Working Families Act – Calculation of Employees [HB-1364]
Specifying, for purposes of determining whether an employer is required to provide paid or unpaid earned sick and safe leave in accordance with certain provisions of law, that, if an employer or a franchisor has more than one business location in the State, the number of employees at each location shall be aggregated.
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Healthy Working Families Act – Exemptions – Modifications [HB-1314]
Altering the type of employees employed in the construction industry having a certain classification under the North American Industry Classification System who are exempted from the provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; exempting an employee who is covered under the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act from the provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; etc.