| MD | HB1440 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB327 | Engross 50% | Increasing by two members the membership of the Board of Community College Trustees for Anne Arundel County; and requiring the Governor to consider the geographic and ethnic representation of Anne Arundel County when making appointments to the Board. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB336 | Engross 50% | Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB386 | Engross 50% | Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB367 | Engross 50% | Requiring on or before certain dates each community college to develop and implement a plan to provide students with access to over-the-counter contraception; requiring each community college to submit a certain report to the Maryland Higher Educatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (33-13) |
| MD | HB472 | Engross 50% | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB569 | Engross 50% | Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree if the course is not classified as a re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB539 | Engross 50% | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB662 | Engross 50% | Requiring that certain regulations governing the registration and operation of large family child care homes and the licensing and operation of child care centers require that child care teachers be at least 18 years old. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (39-7) |
| MD | HB624 | Engross 50% | Altering the administrator of the Next Generation Scholars of Maryland Program to be the Maryland Higher Education Commission rather than the State Department of Education; and requiring the Department to assist the Commission with the review of appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB678 | Engross 50% | Altering certain principles of public higher education in the State to include a principle that public higher education in Maryland should be committed to promoting diversity and inclusion at certain institutions by attracting and graduating a divers... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (34-12) |
| MD | HB634 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Governing Board of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center to authorize the Center to send student information to the United States Census Bureau. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB785 | Engross 50% | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB760 | Engross 50% | Requiring each local school system, on or before November 1 of the third year of a 6-year audit cycle, to submit a report to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee on the status of implementation of corrective actions to address repeat findings and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB825 | Engross 50% | Increasing, from one member to two members, the number of public members from each area served by the participating library systems on the governing board for each regional resource center. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB945 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; authorizing a local school system to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB901 | Engross 50% | Allowing an applicant of a part-time senatorial or delegate scholarship with a documented disability to request from the Maryland Higher Education Commission a waiver from the requirement to carry at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB995 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a member of the Washington County Board of Education be a resident of Washington County for at least 6 months and the State for at least 12 months immediately preceding the date the member takes office; and requiring members of the cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB1026 | Engross 50% | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB1115 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt a process for the uniform and timely reporting of certain county board of education budget information to a county governing body; requiring a county board to post certain information in a certain manne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB1163 | Enroll 75% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Division of Rehabilitation Services in the State Department of Education to ensure the State match amount for the Division is met as required by certain fede... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1244 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB200 | Engross 50% | Altering certain requirements for community schools and community school coordinators; requiring the Director of Community Schools to create a common needs assessment tool and an evaluation form; requiring a community school coordinator to complete a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Prince George's County Council to impose an excise tax on certain telecommunications service in Prince George's County in addition to, or instead of, a sales and use tax; altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB396 | Engross 50% | Altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of certain revenue from the sales and use tax on energy and fuel in Prince George's County by allowing the revenue to be used to meet certain education funding requirements for the county; and r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB428 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the State Department of Educatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1082 | Engross 50% | Requiring for each fiscal year each county board of education to provide for the salary and benefits of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future implementation coordinator in the county; requiring the implementation coordinator's salary and benefits to be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1390 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that established the intent of the General Assembly that a new Workgroup on the Assessment and Funding of School Facilities be formed; repealing the provision of law that would have repealed the School Safety Grant Progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1492 | Intro 25% | Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the ASVAB and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to military recruiters; and repealing the requireme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1522 | Intro 25% | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB475 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Open-Source Phonics Matching Grant Program within the State Department of Education; requiring the Department to administer the Program; requiring the Governor each fiscal year to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1164 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1143 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission to address factors throughout the health care system that contribute to increased emergency department wait times; authorizing the Commission to request data from certain e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1189 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming course or an equally rig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1195 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education and Maryland Department of Health to develop guidelines to reduce the risk of exposure to anaphylactic major food allergens in child care settings; requiring the State Department of Education to create a ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain individuals to submit to a criminal history records check before the individual is authorized to have a position involving direct contact with children in a licensed child care center, registered family child care home, or registere... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1386 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board, to develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees; requiring each county board of education and certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "public school employee" to include supervisory noncertificated employees in Dorchester County for purposes of collective bargaining. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 [Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Engross 50% | Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for certain funding to lease space to provide prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder for eligible privat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1287 | Engross 50% | Altering the school leadership training program developed by the State Department of Education and the Accountability and Implementation Board to require that the State Superintendent, county superintendents, and senior instruction-related staff comp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB196 | Engross 50% | Requiring the public school safety education program to include student instruction concerning school bus safety and the proper use of seat belts on school buses; requiring that school buses purchased after July 1, 2027, be equipped with 3-point seat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB393 | Engross 50% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time dentists and dental hygienists who are practicing under a general or limited license; and authorizing the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB598 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing the purpose of the program is to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB495 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission to publish the names of the candidates for appointment to the Baltimore County Board of Education on the Commission's website before interviewing the candidates; requiring meetings of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |