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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees"
+description: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 904"
+citation: "Maryland HB 904 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bridges"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-02"
+last_action: "2021-12-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7389c6f0-f552-42b8-9b3f-a150939e5b97"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0904?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2e10e4fcb0b37c7c7c50580a84fe3a56220e9431dbf90c7cc33e3bdb8072c52a"
+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 HB 904 (2021) — State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_28_hb0904e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904e.pdf)
+3. **First - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904f.pdf)
+4. **Third - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **95–41** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **95–38** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **32–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bridges — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-02** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-11** Hearing 2/25 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2021-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2021-05-28** Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) `executive-veto`
+- **2021-12-06** Motion Special Order vote on veto until next session (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
+- **2021-12-07** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
+- **2021-12-07** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
+- **2021-12-07** Became law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 28 of 2021 Special Session `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7389c6f0-f552-42b8-9b3f-a150939e5b97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+