ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 129

CHAPTER 129
(Senate Bill 507)

AN ACT concerning

Anne Arundel County - Public School Employees - Service or

Representation Fee

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to
negotiate with a certain employee organization a reasonable service or
representation fee to be charged to nonmembers for representing them in
certain matters; requiring a certain employee organization to indemnify and
hold harmless the Board against certain claims, demands, suits, or other forms
of liability; requiring the Board to retain without charge to the Board the services
of certain counsel with regard to certain claims, demands, suits, or other forms of
liability; requiring a certain employee organization to submit a certain audit to
the Board annually; requiring the amount of the service or representation fee to
be based solely on certain expenses; prohibiting the financing of certain political
activities of the exclusive representative with the funds collected from the service
or representation fee; providing that certain employees are not required to pay
the service or representation fee, but instead shall pay an equivalent amount to
certain charities; requiring that certain negotiated agreements also contain a
certain provision relating to a fee, that is not to exceed a certain amount, that is
to be collected and committed to to require that a certain percentage of the fees
collected be designated for professional development for certain educators;
making this Act applicable only to certain employees hired after a certain date;
and generally relating to service or representation fees for nonmembers of
certain employee organizations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 6-407

Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Education

6-407.

(a)     An employee organization designated as an exclusive representative shall
be the negotiating agent of all public school employees in the unit in the county.

(b)     (1) An employee organization designated as an exclusive representative
shall represent all employees in the unit fairly and without discrimination, whether
or not the employees are members of the employee organization.

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