Maryland Senate Bill 164 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-12 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
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. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam [D]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. Guy Guzzone [D]	Sen. Delores Kelley [D]
Sen. Nathaniel McFadden [D]	Sen. Barbara Robinson [D]	Sen. Ronald Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2018-01-24	Senate	Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
2018-01-15	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0164?ys=2018rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0164f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/fnotes/bil_0004/sb0164.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/votes_comm/sb0164_ehe.pdf