| MD | SB883 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county board of education, a nonpublic school, or a contracting agency that has contracted with a virtual tutoring service to require the virtual tutoring service to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Patterson and Fair) |
| MD | SB1090 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1354 | Engross
50% | Authorizing public schools to designate Veterans' Day as a public school holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB543 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference or donor preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB354 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support certain students in licensed practical nursing education programs, alleviate the shortage of nursing professionals by increasing graduat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB489 | Engross
50% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Engross
50% | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1024 | Engross
50% | Requiring that each public middle and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; and requiring each public middle and high school to review and update the cardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1141 | Engross
50% | Establishing that applicants for a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship are not subject to certain requirements of the scholarship application process if the applicant enrolls in a noncredit vocational certificate program, enrolls in a sequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB591 | Engross
50% | Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB101 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2027, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,500,000 to the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore; requiring the Schaefer Center, in consult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB78 | 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] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB21 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to conduct a comprehensive study analyzing the current condition of public high school athletic and physical education facilities in the State and to report to the Governor and the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB419 | Engross
50% | Altering the fiscal years, from through 2025 to through 2028, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB762 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1058 | Engross
50% | Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1035 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to collaborate with the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Committee to develop and jointly approve a plan for career and technical education in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1145 | Engross
50% | Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB341 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State to provide to certain non-State-supported employees of the University System of Maryland and Morgan State University 100% of the cost-of-living adjustment the State provides to State employees, beginning in fiscal year 2026; and r...
[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 | SB414 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB855 | Engross
50% | Requiring that certain numbers of members of the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County shall belong to certain political parties based on the aggregated number of votes in the preceding election of the Board of County Commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB864 | Engross
50% | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1022 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each perform certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the workforce needs in the State and wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB167 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit...
[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
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
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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
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 | 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 | HB771 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1140 | Engross
50% | Requiring a virtual tutoring service that contracts with a county board of education, including the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, or a nonpublic school to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtual tuto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB473 | Engross
50% | Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB615 | Engross
50% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a county public library from charging a fine for overdue library materials borrowed by a minor or intended for children or teens; prohibiting a county public library from charging a reserve fee for library materials reserved by a minor or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
