| MD | SB59 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign to promote education regarding safe sleep for infants; establishing the Maryland Safe Sleep Certification Program and requiring child care centers to be ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB196 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting certain persons from allowing pupils to stand in a school bus while the school bus is in motion; requiring that school buses purchased after October 1, 2024, be equipped with seat belts that are accessible to passengers; requiring school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB327 | Engross 50% | Increasing by two members the membership of the Board of Community College Trustees for Anne Arundel County; and requiring the Governor to consider the geographic and ethnic representation of Anne Arundel County when making appointments to the Board. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Engross 50% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Motion Special Order until 3/20 (Delegate Barnes) Adopted |
| MD | HB393 | Engross 50% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time dentists and dental hygienists who are practicing under a general or limited license; and authorizing the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB428 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB598 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing the purpose of the program is to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB495 | Engross 50% | Establishing that certain records requested by and submitted to the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission are not confidential and are subject to certain disclosure requirements; and requiring a meeting of the Commission to be open to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB579 | Engross 50% | Altering the standards of the State Free Feeding Program, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to require that if a school participates in the federal School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program, then each student in the school must be of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB691 | Engross 50% | Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all programs at institutions of higher education in the State; altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB771 | Engross 50% | Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB785 | Engross 50% | Establishing the State standards for libraries for the operation of each library that receives funding from the State; altering the duties of the State Library Board, the State Library Agency, and regional resource centers to incorporate the State st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB806 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB821 | Engross 50% | Establishing a Student Support Specialist Network consisting of certain school-based personnel at each public high school in Prince George's County; requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop a certain template using certain g... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB797 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB971 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a county board of education to waive a certain eligibility requirement for participation in interscholastic athletics at a certain Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association member school for students who attend certain public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; repealing certain certification requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB899 | Engross 50% | Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all programs at institutions of higher education in the State; altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB855 | Engross 50% | Requiring that certain numbers of members of the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County and the Board of Community College Trustees for Washington County shall belong to certain political parties based on the aggregate number of votes i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB902 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB995 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a member of the Washington County Board of Education be a resident of Washington County for at least 6 months and the State for at least 12 months immediately preceding the date the member takes office; and requiring members of the cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1101 | Engross 50% | Requiring law enforcement agencies to develop and implement certain recruitment policies; clarifying that the Edward T. Conroy and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program and the Jean B. Cryor Memorial Scholarship Program include certain postseco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB1099 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB1035 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to collaborate with the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Committee to develop and approve a certain plan; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Ed... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB1026 | Engross 50% | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1042 | Engross 50% | Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the ASVAB and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to military recruiters; and repealing the requireme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB1115 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt a process for the uniform and timely reporting of certain county board of education budget information to a county governing body; requiring a county board to post certain information in a certain manne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1167 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Statewide Secure Schools Emergency Response Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to improve the safety and security of public schools in the State by implementing a certain emergency notification system... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1157 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1139 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education, on or before January 15 each year, to determine the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year and to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide the materials in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1143 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission in the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems to enhance the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of emergency medical services; requiring the Maryla... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1189 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn a certain number of credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming cour... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross 50% | Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain individuals to submit to a criminal history records check before the individual is authorized to have a position involving direct contact with children in a licensed child care center, registered family child care home, or registere... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1386 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education and certain nonpublic schools to provide each employee with training on the prevention of antisemitism and Islamophobia each year; requiring institutions of higher education to include specific training on the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "public school employee" to include supervisory noncertificated employees in Dorchester County for purposes of collective bargaining. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1426 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Engross 50% | Establishing certain requirements for a teacher's certificate in early childhood education; altering the teaching credentials required for staff of qualified providers for prekindergarten services for purposes of the Prekindergarten Grant Program; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1397 | Engross 50% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1440 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to support the Artif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1287 | Engross 50% | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2024, an employment contract for the State Superintendent of Schools or county superintendents of schools to include a provision requiring the completion of a school leadership course or program during the initial term of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB395 | Engross 50% | Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree under certain circumstances; requiring ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB419 | Engross 50% | Altering the fiscal years, from through 2025 to through 2028, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB527 | Engross 50% | Requiring, on or before August 1, 2025, each community college to develop and implement a plan to provide students with access to over-the-counter contraception; requiring each community college to submit a certain report to the Maryland Higher Educa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |