Maryland Senate Bill 244 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-01 - Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishing the Task Force to Study Suspension Rates of African American Prekindergarten Students; providing the purpose of the task force is to determine whether specified students are suspended at a higher rate than students of other races, determine the resources available to remedy suspensions of specified students, and to make recommendations to deter specified suspensions; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2018; etc.

Task Force to Study Suspension Rates of African American Prekindergarten Students

Sen. Barbara Robinson [D]	Sen. Joan Conway [D]	Sen. Ulysses Currie [D]	Sen. Nathaniel McFadden [D]
Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam [D]	Sen. William Smith [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-01	Senate	Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
2017-01-20	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0244?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0244f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0004/sb0244.pdf