---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts - Action for Violation of Collective Bargaining Agreement or Breach of Duty of Fair Representation - Limitations Period"
description: "Courts - Action for Violation of Collective Bargaining Agreement or Breach of Duty of Fair Representation - Limitations Period"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 852"
citation: "Maryland HB 852 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "State Pensions and Retirement", "Counties - Generally", "Civil Actions", "Collective Bargaining", "Damages", "Public Employees", "State Employees", "Statutes of Limitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barkley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16ee8652-43c3-49a5-aa57-586a7269b651"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB852&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "8fcefb229de7eebd8a545052528580429b46f6c7f7faa3c50977980377eb8fe9"
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 852 (2017) — Courts - Action for Violation of Collective Bargaining Agreement or Breach of Duty of Fair Representation - Limitations Period

## 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/hb/hb0852f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barkley — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {514568/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 483 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16ee8652-43c3-49a5-aa57-586a7269b651`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).