---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cecil County - Office of the Sheriff - Employees and Collective Bargaining"
description: "Cecil County - Office of the Sheriff - Employees and Collective Bargaining"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 284"
citation: "Maryland HB 284 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Cecil County", "Collective Bargaining", "Correctional Institutions", "County Executives", "Salaries and Compensation", "Sheriffs", "Unions", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cecil County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a083461b-1ac2-4f98-a93d-f408d02d5471"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB284&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "09f361549f7406c7922bc4b95432a0c8bd29221eea3fe4b1039694f772cbe927"
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 284 (2018) — Cecil County - Office of the Sheriff - Employees and Collective Bargaining

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0284f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–3** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cecil County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (133-3) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 607 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a083461b-1ac2-4f98-a93d-f408d02d5471`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).