Maryland Senate Bill 954 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-26 - Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, county boards of education to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and registration as part of a certain curriculum in grades 9 through 12 in public schools; specifying the purposes and goals of the instruction; encouraging nonpublic high schools to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and registration in a certain manner; and encouraging county boards to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and registration during the 2019-2020 school year.

Education - Public and Nonpublic High Schools - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Instruction

Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-26	Senate	Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
2019-02-21	Senate	Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2019-02-15	Senate	First Reading Senate Rules

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0954?ys=2019rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0954f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/fnotes/bil_0004/sb0954.pdf