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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
MDHB1442Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Fiscal and Operational Viability of Public-Private Partnerships for Howard County Public Schools to study the use of public-private partnerships to reduce or increase the speed of school construction, the poten...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
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
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Withdrawn by Sponsor
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
MDHB1422Intro
25%
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB269Intro
25%
Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or political subdivision of the State to deny the person's appl...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MDHB121Intro
25%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services not locate training facilities with outdoor firearm ranges near a hospital, educational, state or local correctional, or juvenile facility; requ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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
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
MDSB1152Intro
25%
Establishing the Frederick County School Construction Master Plan Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to comprehensively evaluate all school facility needs in the Frederick County Public Schools portfolio, explore and evaluate certain solutions, a...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1155Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Fiscal and Operational Viability of Public-Private Partnerships for Howard County Public Schools to study the use of public-private partnerships to reduce or increase the speed of school construction, the poten...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules 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
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
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
MDSB1139Intro
25%
Authorizing a food retailer to offer to purchase a Class A license from a Class A license holder under certain circumstances; and authorizing a food retailer to apply to a local licensing board for a Class A license under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB637Intro
25%
Altering, from 3 years to 1 year, the number of years an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes before the academic year for eligibility to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB741Intro
25%
Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB819Intro
25%
Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB851Intro
25%
Authorizing a county board of education to waive a certain eligibility requirement for participation in interscholastic athletics at a Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association member school for students who attend certain public high sc...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB917Intro
25%
Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB980Intro
25%
Requiring public high schools to promote and increase the enrollment of certain students in high school computer science courses; requiring, beginning on or before June 1, 2025, the State Board of Education to update computer science content standard...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB984Intro
25%
Requiring the Secretary of Labor to prioritize activities, programs, and services that contribute to meeting a certain statewide goal when administering the business of the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the State Board of Education, rather ...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1081Intro
25%
Establishing the Driver Education in Public Schools Grant Program to provide grants to public schools and nonprofit organizations to assist public schools in offering driver education courses to students; establishing the State-Aided Institutions Fie...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1032Intro
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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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1043Intro
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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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1062Intro
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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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB657Intro
25%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy related to pregnant and parenting students that is consistent with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and requiring each public institution of higher education to post...
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2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB881Intro
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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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB890Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB930Intro
25%
Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a child of certain judges to attend public school in a county other than the county where the child is domiciled if the child's parent is a judge and the county in which the child is domiciled is ...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB923Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with county boards of education and county superintendents of schools, to conduct a study on the transfer and awarding of credits by local school systems to in the State for successful comp...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB997Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Department of Education and in consultation with other relevant parties, to establish criteria for designating green schools in the State as model professional development...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB927Intro
25%
Establishing second degree assault of an employee or a subcontractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school as a crime of violence for certain purposes.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1027Intro
25%
Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring a failing school to retain the failing school designation ...
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB914Intro
25%
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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