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MDSB828Intro
25%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certa...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1381Intro
25%
Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1370Intro
25%
Requiring Montgomery County Public Schools to require training for school personnel on the prevention of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of religious discrimination.
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2024-02-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1179Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to amend certain policies and procedures governing procurements by the University System in a certain manner; and providing that the University System, Morgan State University, and...
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2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB160Intro
25%
Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB25Intro
25%
Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexua...
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2024-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
MDHB1494Intro
25%
Increasing the number of Maryland residents from 30 to 42 in the student body of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, contingent on certain agreements.
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2024-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1493Intro
25%
Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to pro...
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2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1383Intro
25%
Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en...
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1468Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a certified school principal who is actively leading a school as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB698Intro
25%
Altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board regarding conflicts between a decision or policy of the Board and another entity responsible for implementing an element of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB749Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student so that these students are eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1268Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education, county boards of education, and institutions of higher education in the State to update certain drug addiction and prevention education programs to include information on the mitigating effects of naloxone or o...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1433Intro
25%
Altering the career ladder for teachers to allow teachers with a certain higher degree to participate as an equivalent to teachers with National Board Certification; requiring the State Department of Education to study the efficacy of National Board ...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1455Intro
25%
Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1380Intro
25%
Requiring the Calvert County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, and ...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1385Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a resident early childhood teaching certificate and a conditional early childhood teaching certificate for teachers who meet certain criteria in eligible publicly funded prekindergarten program...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1403Intro
25%
Altering the age of children in family child care homes and large family child care homes, from under the age of 2 years to under the age of 15 months, under which certain limitations on the number of children in care and certain adult to child ratio...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1431Intro
25%
Increasing the annual compensation of the members of the Calvert County Board of Education to be $9,500 for the president of the county board and $8,500 for the other members of the county board, subject to approval from the County Commissioners of C...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1395Intro
25%
Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to hire an ombudsman before the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year; requiring the president of the county board, in consultation with counsel for the county board, to negotiate the terms of the...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1373Intro
25%
Establishing the Extracurricular Activities for Homeschooled Students Pilot Program in Calvert County to allow homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities sponsored by public schools in the county; establishing the Workgroup to...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1418Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a public middle school to begin instruction not before 8 a.m. and a public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless granted a waiver by the county board of education under c...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1400Intro
25%
Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1430Intro
25%
Providing that parents of children in public schools have certain rights regarding information and communication from the children's local school system about education and school-related topics.
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1401Intro
25%
Establishing the School Psychologist Recruitment Program within the State Department of Education to provide professional development programs and aid for a certification fee to school psychologists and individuals seeking to become school psychologi...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB138Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to update the Maryland State Curriculum for Personal Financial Literacy Education and corresponding financial literacy standards to include certain content; requiring the State Board of Education to develop...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB221Intro
25%
Altering certain definitions relating to student enrollment that are generally used for the calculation of funding for general education programs.
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB47Intro
25%
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
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2024-02-12
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
MDHB65Intro
25%
Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB560Intro
25%
Altering the number of appointed members on the Harford County Board of Education from three to one; and prohibiting appointed members on the county board from holding the positions of president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer on the county ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1336Intro
25%
Increasing a certain annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures for fiscal year 2026 and further increasing the annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures beginning in fiscal year 2027; altering the allocation of cer...
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2024-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1345Intro
25%
Requiring that a member of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees be a resident of Harford County for the duration of the member's term; altering the membership of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees; requiring the Governor when ...
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2024-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1325Intro
25%
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to prov...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1163Intro
25%
Prohibiting the location of a school bus stop on any highway with five or more undivided traffic lanes in certain counties unless a school crossing guard is posted or a certain traffic control device is placed at the school bus stop.
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB675Intro
25%
Establishing the Education Savings Account program in the State administered by the State Department of Education to provide grants to the account of the parent of an eligible student in order to provide for the eligible student's education; requirin...
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB598Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB612Intro
25%
Authorizing each county board of education to use a chaplain as a volunteer aide in schools to provide services to students.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB704Intro
25%
Establishing the Education Savings Account program in the State administered by the State Department of Education; providing that the State shall deposit into an account of an eligible student a certain percentage of the per pupil amount of State and...
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB638Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, to allow completion of an eligible financial literacy courses to be applied toward fulfillment of the student service hours high school graduation requirement for the ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1089Intro
25%
Requiring certain operators of certain Internet sites, services, and applications to protect certain school employee information from unauthorized access, implement and maintain security procedures and practices, and delete school employee informatio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB909Intro
25%
Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to establish a pilot program to operate one or more schools within the county using an innovative scheduling model including extended year, year-round school, or a 4-day school week; authorizing ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1175Intro
25%
Prohibiting a public school employer from entering into a certain subcontracting agreement unless certain circumstances occur; specifying the requirements for a public school employer to enter into a certain subcontracting agreement; providing for th...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1234Intro
25%
Authorizing each county board of education to use a chaplain as a volunteer aide in schools to provide services to students.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1191Intro
25%
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers u...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1181Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain curriculum standards and curriculum resources on or before January 1, 2025; requiring the State Department of Education to revise and enhance certain history and social studies frameworks to i...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1363Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a unit of instruction on Asian American history in public schools in the State; requiring each county board of education to implement the Asian American history curric...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1314Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to waive the filing fee for certain annual reports for the first year that certain business entities are in existence; requiring that 25% of the fees collected be credited to the Child Care S...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1326Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to adopt a new teacher retention policy; altering the content required to be included in certain teacher support and retention guidelines developed by the State Board of Education; and altering the content req...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1432Intro
25%
Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State...
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1350Intro
25%
Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; and establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
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