HOUSE BILL 1048

File Code: Law Enforcement and Correctional Services Prior Year Introduction As: HB 920/95 - APP

Sponsored By:

Delegate Owings

Entitled:

Corrections Employees' Bill of Rights

Synopsis:

Establishing an exclusive procedural remedy for corrections personnel in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in disciplinary hearings; specifying the scope of the Act; ensuring that corrections personnel have a right to engage in political activity; ensuring that corrections personnel have a right to assemble and to petition grievances; ensuring that corrections personnel are entitled to a workplace free of health hazards and risks; etc.

Legislative History

House Action

2/6

First Reading Appropriations

2/13

Hearing 2/20 at 11:00 a.m.

4/3

Unfavorable Report by Appropriations

Senate Action

No Action

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW

CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS

DISCIPLINE

HEARINGS

INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES

NOTICES

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

PRIVACY

PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

SALARIES AND COMPENSATION

UNIONS

WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE, OVERTIME

Bill affects the following Statutes:

Article - 27 Crimes and Punishments

( 734E , 734F , 734G , 734H , 734-I , 734J , 734K , 734L , 734M , 734N , 734-O , 734P , 734Q , 734R , 734S , 734T , 734U )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments: None available