Maryland Senate Bill 595 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)
Status: Passed on May 12 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-12 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Requiring specified public charter schools to take specified steps to maintain a specified ratio as part of the initial cohort of students in a grade; authorizing specified public charter schools to give specified students a greater weight to the student's lottery status as part of the public charter school's admissions lottery; authorizing a county board to consider specified issues relating to school site and school building utilization when authorizing specified public charter schools to occupy specified sites or buildings; etc.

Public Charter School Improvement Act of 2015

Sen. Thomas Miller [D]	Sen. Gail Bates [R]	Sen. Bob Cassilly [R]	Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]
Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. Michael Hough [R]	Sen. J.B. Jennings [R]	Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]
Sen. Justin Ready [R]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]	Sen. Johnny Salling [R]	Sen. Andrew Serafini [R]
Sen. Bryan Simonaire [R]	Sen. Stephen Waugh [R]

2015-04-11 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (131-7) (Y: 131 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2015-04-10 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (44-1) (Y: 44 N: 1 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-03-30 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (46-1) (Y: 46 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-12	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311
2015-04-13	Senate	Passed Enrolled
2015-04-13	Senate	Third Reading Passed (44-1)
2015-04-13	Senate	Senate Concur - House Amendments
2015-04-13	House	Third Reading Passed with Amendments (131-7)
2015-04-11	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2015-04-10	House	Special Order until 4/11 (Delegate Hixson) Adopted
2015-04-10	House	Favorable with Amendments {535864/1 Report Adopted
2015-04-10	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
2015-04-09	House	Hearing 4/09 at 1:00 p.m.
2015-04-08	House	Rereferred to Ways and Means
2015-04-07	House	First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
2015-04-06	Senate	Third Reading Passed (46-1)
2015-04-03	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2015-04-03	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {794139/1 Report Adopted
2015-04-02	Senate	Laid Over (Senator Kelley) Adopted
2015-04-02	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {794139/1
2015-04-02	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2015-03-04	Senate	Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
2015-02-09	Senate	Motion Rules Suspended Rule 32 (Senator Pugh) Adopted
2015-02-06	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0595?ys=2015rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0595f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0595t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/sb/sb0595e.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/Chapters_noln/CH_311_sb0595e.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/amds/bil_0005/sb0595_79413901.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/amds/bil_0005/sb0595_53586401.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/fnotes/bil_0005/sb0595.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/votes_comm/sb0595_ehe.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/votes_comm/sb0595_w&m.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0595,s-0747&stab=02&ys=2015RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0595,s-1155&stab=02&ys=2015RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0595,h-1206&stab=02&ys=2015RS