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MDHB475Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB558Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB620Engross
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.
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB730Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1164Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1189Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1386Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1441Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1287Engross
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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB971Engross
50%
Authorizing the Washington County Board of Education to waive a certain eligibility requirement for participation in interscholastic athletics at a certain Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association member school for students who attend c...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1157Engross
50%
Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1139Engross
50%
Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1257Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1426Engross
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; requiring the State Board to approve certain specifications for teachers and admi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1297Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB86Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, to identify or develop training for certain school personnel to identify symptoms of anaphylaxis, asthma, and respiratory distress in students; requi...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1140Engross
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...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1219Engross
50%
Requiring that each public middle school and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; requiring each nonpublic middle school and high school that receives Sta...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1415Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to submit a report on community schools to the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2024; and requiring the Department to submit a report summarizing the reports received from county boards t...
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2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB903Engross
50%
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB456Intro
25%
Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1485Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in kindergarten through grade 12; requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year,...
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2024-03-12
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1169Intro
25%
Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1394Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB856Intro
25%
Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
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2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1061Intro
25%
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...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1200Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB399Intro
25%
Establishing the High School Metal Detector Program in the Prince George's County Public School System to install a metal detector in each public high school in the county; requiring the Prince George's County Superintendent of schools to coordinate ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB615Engross
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...
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2024-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB909Intro
25%
Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrec...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB416Engross
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...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB522Engross
50%
Requiring each county board of education to establish a policy to accommodate students who need telehealth appointments during the school day; requiring each public middle and high school to designate a certain space for student telehealth appointmen...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
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
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
MDHB1413Intro
25%
Establishing the Prince George's Development Authority in Prince George's County to support and develop a certain neighborhood revitalization plan in coordination with certain residents; and requiring, on or before October 31, 2026, the Authority to ...
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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
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
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