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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials"
+description: "Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 909"
+citation: "Maryland SB 909 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Local Government - Generally", "Budgets", "Charles County", "Collective Bargaining", "Contracts", "Counties", "County Commissioners", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fees", "Fire Protection", "Mediation", "Municipal Corporations", "Notices", "Oaths", "Public Local Laws", "Rules and Regulations", "Safety", "Signatures", "Subpoenas", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charles County (By Request)"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70553ebe-335c-421a-aaf9-8d68622df8d3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB909&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "4c12bdd13b8c8c2e1202aff8653802783f418c9b250cd5b7d8123ca038d9544b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 909 (2017) — Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0909f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **126–14** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charles County (By Request) — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {767679/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (126-14) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70553ebe-335c-421a-aaf9-8d68622df8d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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