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HB 1433

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Community Colleges - Collective Bargaining - Definition of Supervisory Employee

Sponsor: Aletheia McCaskill (District 44B)Committee: Government, Labor, and ElectionsSubject: Higher EducationStatus: Special Order until later today (Senator Hershey) Adopted (as of Sep 4, 2026)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Defining, for purposes of collective bargaining in community colleges, the term 'supervisory employee' to mean an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline employees, direct employees for 50% of the employee's working hours, and address employee complaints; and excluding from the definition a department head or an employee in a comparable position or any faculty member below the level of assistant dean.

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Testimony (11)

MGA witness list
FAV 8FavorableUNF 3Unfavorable
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVGallagher, KevinIAM Union District 4Position only
FAVLamb, LaurenlobbyistMaryland State Education AssociationOral + Written (PDF)
FAVSullivan, MarinaWright, Ryon & Maher, P.A.Oral
FAVSullivan, MarinaWright, Ryon & Maher, P.A.Oral + Written (PDF)
FAVKaplowitz, Richard KAPYearWritten (PDF)
FAVDelegate McCaskill, Delegate McCaskilllegislatorIndividualOral
FAVDelegate McCaskill, Delegate McCaskilllegislatorIndividualOral
FAVMaher, DavidIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
UNFKurtinitis, SandraCommunity College of Baltimore CountyOral + Written (PDF)
UNFJabin, DrewMaryland Association of Community CollegesWritten (PDF)
UNFJabin, DrewMaryland Association of Community CollegesWritten (PDF)

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FAVLamb, LaurenMaryland State Education AssociationRegistered for: Maryland State Education Association