Maryland Senate Bill 819

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-05 - Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Hearing
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.

Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding

Sen. Ron Watson [D]

Sen. Dalya Attar [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-05	Senate	Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
2025-02-03	Senate	First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Education	7	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Education	7	101.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0819?ys=2025RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0819f.pdf