---
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: "SB 1027"
citation: "Maryland SB 1027 (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: ["Manno"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c29b555-070f-45c1-8475-cad8c96ab604"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1027&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "192e8b582cb37b6fea4d4c724e16dfb0851432e9a3470fda0402ec1a74c1d040"
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 1027 (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/sb/sb1027f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Manno — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-23** Favorable with Amendments {137178/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-24** Third Reading Passed (46-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-24** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2017-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c29b555-070f-45c1-8475-cad8c96ab604`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).