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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="3-101" future_version_removed="true" title_number="3" title_name="Collective Bargaining" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions and General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Board” means the Public Employee Relations Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Chancellor” has the meaning stated in § 12–101 of the Education Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Collective bargaining” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>good faith negotiations by authorized representatives of employees and their employer with the intention of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <level label="1">
          <text>reaching an agreement about wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>incorporating the terms of the agreement in a written memorandum of understanding or other written understanding; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>clarifying terms and conditions of employment;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>administration of terms and conditions of employment; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the voluntary adjustment of a dispute or disagreement between authorized representatives of employees and their employer that arises under a memorandum of understanding or other written understanding.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Employee organization” has the meaning stated in § 22–101 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Exclusive representative” has the meaning stated in § 22–101 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Faculty at the Maryland School for the Deaf” means employees who have been granted the following status by the Board of Trustees of the Maryland School for the Deaf:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>after–school program counselors;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>American Sign Language specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>athletic trainers;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>behavior specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>clerical aides;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>dorm counselors;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>employment specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>instructional technology resource specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>librarians;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>literacy and reading specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>occupational therapists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>orientation and mobility specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiii">
        <text>physical therapists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xiv">
        <text>school counselors;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xv">
        <text>school IEP coordinators;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xvi">
        <text>school nurses;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xvii">
        <text>school social workers;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xviii">
        <text>speech–language pathologists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xix">
        <text>student support specialists;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xx">
        <text>teachers;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xxi">
        <text>teacher aides;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xxii">
        <text>transition coordinators; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xxiii">
        <text>work–to–learn specialists.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Faculty at the Maryland School for the Deaf” does not include officers or supervisory employees at the Maryland School for the Deaf.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Fully online institution” means an institution that offers all academic and student services remotely.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Nontenure track faculty” means full–time, part–time, or adjunct nontenure track employees of a system institution, Morgan State University, or St. Mary’s College of Maryland whose primary assignments involve academic instruction, including teachers, researchers, and department heads and those in comparable positions.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Nontenure track faculty” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>faculty employed at a fully online institution; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>faculty whose positions are fully funded through a research or service grant or contract, or through clinical revenues.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“President” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>with regard to a constituent institution, as defined in § 12–101 of the Education Article, the president of the constituent institution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>with regard to a center or institute, as those terms are defined in § 12–101 of the Education Article, the president of the center or institute;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>with regard to the University System of Maryland Office, the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>with regard to Morgan State University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College, the president of the institution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“System institution” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a constituent institution, as defined in § 12–101 of the Education Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a center or institute, as those terms are defined in § 12–101 of the Education Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the University System of Maryland Office.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
