---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining"
description: "Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 894"
citation: "Maryland HB 894 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haynes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/081bcd90-0b02-4e0c-a53c-891a6d98441f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0894?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0b79d83c9d86ef4ba50eafa2b18b34785073bd68dd11e26574bd5b7b49b0a12f"
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 894 (2021) — Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_27_hb0894t.pdf)
2. **First - Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0894f.pdf)
3. **Third - Education – Community Colleges – Collective Bargaining** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0894t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **95–40** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haynes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03** Hearing 2/10 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Cardin) Adopted
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Returned Passed
- **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 27 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/081bcd90-0b02-4e0c-a53c-891a6d98441f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).