---
type: "Bill"
title: "Collective Bargaining - Firefighters - Martin State Airport"
description: "Collective Bargaining - Firefighters - Martin State Airport"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 515"
citation: "Maryland SB 515 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Airports", "Collective Bargaining", "Fire Protection", "Military Department", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff913410-4510-4ecc-b32b-c12c70928c90"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB515&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "0f9babc6c63510dac0059d0a121640d77b4d678b9513ea320b69d0ebb1456b4a"
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 515 (2017) — Collective Bargaining - Firefighters - Martin State Airport

## 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/sb0515f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **100–39** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {787478/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (33-14) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 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 (100-39) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 182 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff913410-4510-4ecc-b32b-c12c70928c90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).