---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees"
description: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 904"
citation: "Maryland HB 904 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bridges"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7389c6f0-f552-42b8-9b3f-a150939e5b97"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0904?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2e10e4fcb0b37c7c7c50580a84fe3a56220e9431dbf90c7cc33e3bdb8072c52a"
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 904 (2021) — State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_28_hb0904e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904e.pdf)
3. **First - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0904t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **95–41** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **95–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bridges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Hearing 2/25 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2021-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **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 28 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/7389c6f0-f552-42b8-9b3f-a150939e5b97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).