Maryland House Bill 623 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 29 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-19 - Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring that public school personnel, parents, and students receive educational information concerning the health effects of student use of overweight backpacks; authorizing a county board of education to allow Doctors of Chiropractic Medicine to conduct scoliosis examinations on students in the county schools; requiring school personnel to engage parent-teacher associations and students to assess matters concerning students' use of backpacks and to promote certain strategies relating to students' backpack usage; etc.

Education - Student Use of Backpacks - Assessment and Reduction of Health Effects

Sen. Charles Sydnor [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-19	House	Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn
2018-02-13	House	Hearing canceled
2018-02-15	House	Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
2018-01-29	House	First Reading Ways and Means

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0623?ys=2018rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0623f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/fnotes/bil_0003/hb0623.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/votes_comm/hb0623_w&m.pdf