VETOES

covered by the terms of the collective bargaining agreement in
effect in that jurisdiction. The result would be an inconsistent
application of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights and a
patchwork of supplemental protections under collective bargaining
agreements.

I believe that any effort to clarify the interplay between
the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights and collective
bargaining agreements should fall on the side of the Law
Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights.

For this reason, I have today vetoed Senate Bill 860.

Sincerely,

William Donald Schaefer

Governor

Senate Bill No. 860

AN ACT concerning

Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights
Collective Bargaining Agreements

FOR the purpose of allowing an individual law enforcement officer
to elect certain rights under a collective bargaining
agreement as an alternative to rights provided by the Law
Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights; specifying that
certain rights may not be diminished or abrogated by certain
legislative action or by any collective bargaining
agreement; specifying that certain rights may be
supplemented or expanded by a collective bargaining
agreement; specifying that this Act does not create
collective bargaining rights unless specifically provided
for by certain legislative action; and generally relating to
waiver of the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights and
to collective bargaining.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

Section 734B and 734D

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Replacement Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

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