---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants"
description: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 141"
citation: "Maryland HB 141 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8a9e6ce-4aae-45c2-bdf0-c90c54b26c54"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0141?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "0b29f54a558993255f7f26f0ecb0b06d5ef83a271964fd8f8c12e2703785f14c"
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 141 (2026) — State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_774_hb0141e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0141e.pdf)
3. **First - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0141f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0141t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **98–34** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **32–11** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **95–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Foley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Government, Labor, and Elections)
- **2026-03-16** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-19** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-11** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2026-04-11** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2026-04-11** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wells, Barnes and Solomon)
- **2026-04-13** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2026-04-13** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2026-04-13** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wells, Barnes and Solomon)
- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Beidle and Hershey)
- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Beidle and Hershey)
- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 774 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8a9e6ce-4aae-45c2-bdf0-c90c54b26c54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).