---
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: "SB 717"
citation: "Maryland SB 717 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30d5ff0d-8ca1-40e1-9222-444da5ffa3b4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0717?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "09d53066bae9ddd8c2e38716c0633c534121f383ab44d1f519bf8840eff0772a"
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 717 (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_15_sb0717t.pdf)
2. **First - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0717f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative Access to New Employees** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0717t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **97–41** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-28** Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) `executive-veto`
- **2021-12-06** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-07** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-07** Became law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 15 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/30d5ff0d-8ca1-40e1-9222-444da5ffa3b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).