Maryland Senate Bill 981

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 2 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-06 - Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizing the Governor for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the Local Cybersecurity Support Fund; requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide sufficient information security officers to assist the Director of Local Cybersecurity; requiring that, by July 1, 2025, a local school system shall implement for all school employees multifactor authentication, endpoint detection and response on all system-owned devices, and network monitoring; etc.

Local Cybersecurity Preparedness and Local Cybersecurity Support Fund - Alterations

Sen. Katie Hester [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-06	Senate	Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
2024-02-02	Senate	First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Public Safety	14	104.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	2A-02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	2A-03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	405	(n/a)	See Bill Text
State Finance and Procurement	5	407	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0981?ys=2024RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0981f.pdf