---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding"
description: "State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Maryland SB 9 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-10-03"
last_action: "2021-12-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ccc4a81-154c-4261-9628-2af66b916d5e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0009?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7c0d9d29da427c8a608486e8de017f9ca9de683c32adb8d8d44dbf8cb81fc7ac"
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 9 (2021) — State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_1_sb0009e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0009e.pdf)
3. **First - State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0009f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Employees - Collective Bargaining - Applicability, Bargaining Processes, and Memorandums of Understanding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0009t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **96–39** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Edwards /423423/1 — **15–32** (fail) · upper
- On third reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-10-03** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-11** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-12** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Motion Special Order until 3/17 (Senator Patterson) Adopted
- **2021-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-20** Hearing 4/01 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-22** Hearing canceled
- **2021-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Senate Concurs House 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** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-06** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-06** Became law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 1 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/3ccc4a81-154c-4261-9628-2af66b916d5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).