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MDHB1386PassRequiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees; requiring each county board of education to offer training based on the guidelines; requiring each county board, every other yea...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 128
MDHB1287PassAltering 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 the chair and vice chair of the State...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 127
MDHB1426PassAuthorizing 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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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164
MDHB1441PassAltering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for funding to lease space for prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder; requiring the Department of Educ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165
MDSB1178PassRepealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176
MDHB1047PassProviding that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262
MDHB475PassEstablishing the Open-Source Phonics Matching Grant Program within the State Department of Education to provide free, open-source phonics learning materials to be used by adults to tutor students; requiring the Department to periodically review the o...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270
MDHB678PassAltering 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...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38
MDHB1487PassReestablishing the Maryland Entertainment Council to be the Maryland Entertainment Industry Council within the Department of Commerce to assess the State's existing assets, study certain existing State programs, agencies, and offices, and make recomm...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70
MDSB1188PassEstablishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3
MDHB1526PassEstablishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to exempt an individual from the requirement to be actively seeking work for unemployment in...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2
MDSB1099Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1055Engross
50%
Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
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2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted
MDHB1244Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1120Enroll
75%
Approving certain projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of certain academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; authorizing the issuance of bonds by the University System of Maryland for financing the projects; and ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1142Enroll
75%
Requiring the Comptroller, for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to distribute $500,000 from the remaining net abandoned property funds after certain distributions to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund; requiring the Gove...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB949Engross
50%
Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
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2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB1184Enroll
75%
Establishing a Class B-CAEVC (College Athletic Event Venue Concessionaire) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Prince George's County to issue the license to a certain concession...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB543Engross
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...
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2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB718Enroll
75%
Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support students in licensed practical nursing education programs who intend to practice nursing as a career in the State; requiring the Secreta...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB891Engross
50%
Expanding the purpose and use of the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include providing grants and loans to anchor institutions for a certain purpose in sustaina...
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2024-04-06
Motion Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Hayes) Adopted
MDHB354Engross
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...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB362Enroll
75%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB837Engross
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...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB905Enroll
75%
Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of hi...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1037Enroll
75%
Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to identify reentry services in the State, develop a plan to establish a new division within the Department of Public Safety and Correctiona...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1271Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1141Engross
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...
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2024-04-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB165Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB59Enroll
75%
Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB473Enroll
75%
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB582Enroll
75%
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB1036Enroll
75%
Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB620Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing federal Pell Grants for higher education; requiring the Department to set goals for the number of incarcerated individuals in certain ...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB101Engross
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...
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2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB690Intro
25%
Defining "supervisory employee" to clarify provisions of law relating to collective bargaining rights for certain community college employees as an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or...
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2024-04-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB204Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDSB84Engross
50%
Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school and college students and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring a sponsor particpating in a teac...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1102Engross
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...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB341Engross
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...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1319Engross
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...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1318Engross
50%
Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1150Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony, and in addition to any other p...
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2024-03-21
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1158Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and, in addition to any other p...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB864Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1022Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1522Intro
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB910Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor's Workforce Development Board, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study on discrimination in employment opportunities in the State against individuals who do not hold a high school diploma or a ...
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2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB393Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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