SB 978 — Maryland

Community Colleges - Collective Bargaining - Definition of Supervisory Employee

Defining, for purposes of collective bargaining in community colleges, the term "supervisory employee" to mean an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline employees, direct employees for 50% of the employee's working hours, and address employee complaints; and excluding from the definition a department head or an employee in a comparable position or any faculty member below the level of assistant dean.

Latest action: First Reading Senate Rules · Feb 14, 2026

Synopsis written by the legislature's own staff, as published on the official bill page. Status label is derived from the recorded actions. The full text below is the record.

Committees: Rules (Senate)

Cross-filed with HB 1433 — the companion bill in the other chamber, as the legislature links it. Each bill keeps its own votes and status; they are never combined here.

Updated Mar 17, 2026