---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty"
description: "State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Maryland SB 6 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer", "Lam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-10-29"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecfbf41c-f20e-47e9-828a-91818ebcff6f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0006?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "ecfa6f158cc72a275864157dd978311d44f9fe160011f2d0c5629f8c05585ab8"
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 6 (2026) — State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_695_sb0006t.pdf)
2. **First - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0006f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0006t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **96–34** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **32–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-21** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-20** Referred Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-26** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecfbf41c-f20e-47e9-828a-91818ebcff6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).