PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

S.B. 422

relating to organizations of certificated employees in Baltimore County to include
elementary school and special school nurses; authorizing the public school employer
in Baltimore County to designate a separate unit comprised of elementary school
and special school nurses; altering the maximum number of collective bargaining
units in Baltimore County; providing for the application of this Act; and generally
relating to elementary school and special school nurses and organizations of
certificated employees in Baltimore County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 6-401 (c) and 6-404(b) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - Education

6-401.

(c). (1) "Public school employee" means a certificated professional individual
who is employed by a public school employer or an individual of equivalent status in
Baltimore City, except for a county superintendent or an individual designated by the
public school employer to act in a negotiating capacity as provided in § 6-408(b) of this
subtitle.

(2)     In Montgomery County, "public school employees" include certificated
and noncertificated substitute teachers employed by the public school employer for at
least 7 days before March 1 of the school fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, and each year
after.

(3)     In Baltimore County, "public school employee" includes a secondary
school nurse, AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NURSE, AND A SPECIAL SCHOOL NURSE.

6-404.

(b)     (1) [The] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, THE public school employer shall determine the composition of the unit in
negotiation with any employee organization that requests negotiation concerning the
composition of the unit.

(2) IN BALTIMORE COUNTY, THE PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYER MAY
DESIGNATE A SEPARATE UNIT COMPRISED OF ALL REGISTERED NURSES EMPLOYED
BY THE COUNTY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR SPECIAL SCHOOLS.

(c)     (1) [There] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS
SUBSECTION, THERE may not be more than two units in a county.

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