BY adding to

Article - State Personnel and Pensions

Section 3-101 through 3 701 3-601, inclusive, to be under the new title "Title 3.
Collective Bargaining"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—State Personnel and Pensions
Section 11-102
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 3-101 through 3-107, inclusive, and the title "Title 3.
Employee/Management Teams" of Article — State Personnel and Pensions of the
Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article - State Personnel and Pensions

TITLE 3. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.
SUBTITLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS.

3-101.

(A) IN THIS TITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) "BOARD" MEANS THE STATE LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.

(C) "COLLECTIVE BARGAINING" MEANS GOOD FAITH NEGOTIATIONS BY
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES OF EMPLOYEES AND THEIR EMPLOYER WITH THE
INTENTION OF:

(1) REACHING AN AGREEMENT ABOUT WAGES, HOURS, AND OTHER
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT; AND

(2) INCORPORATING THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT IN A WRITTEN
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

(D) "DEPARTMENT" MEANS THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND

MANAGEMENT.

(E) (D) "EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION" MEANS A LABOR OR OTHER
ORGANIZATION IN WHICH STATE EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATE AND THAT HAS AS ONE
OF ITS PRIMARY PURPOSES REPRESENTING EMPLOYEES.