SB 6 — State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Nontenure Track Faculty
MD 2026RS session · introduced 2026-01-14
Providing collective bargaining rights to nontenure track faculty of system institutions of higher education, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland whose primary assignments involve academic instruction, including teachers, researchers, and department heads and those in comparable positions; and establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for nontenure track faculty.
Latest action: — In the Senate - Returned Passed
Sponsors (2)
- Benjamin F. Kramer (D, MD-19) — sponsor · 2026-01-14
- Clarence K. Lam (D, MD-12) — cosponsor · 2026-01-14
Action timeline (10)
- · senate — First Reading
- · senate — Hearing — Finance
- · senate — Second Reading — Passed with Amendments
- · senate — Third Reading — Passed
- · house — First Reading (cross-filed)
- · senate — Committee Report — Favorable with Amendments
- · house — Second Reading — Passed
- · house — Third Reading — Passed
- · house — Committee Report — Favorable
- · house — Hearing — Government, Labor, and Elections
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2 typed relationships in the influence graph — 0 inbound, 2 outbound, grouped by type.
referred to committee (2)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | → | House government, labor, and elections | — | md-leg | |
| — | → | Senate finance | — | md-leg |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin F. Kramer (D, state_upper MD-19) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Clarence K. Lam (D, state_upper MD-12) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
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- 2026-05-24 · was referred to House government, labor, and elections · md-leg
- 2026-05-24 · was referred to Senate finance · md-leg