| MD | SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining "supervisory employee" to clarify provisions of law relating to collective bargaining rights for certain community college employees as an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in kindergarten through grade 12; requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1522 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to post on the main page of its website a link to the voter registration webpage maintained on the website of the State Board of Elections or the local board of elections of that county and a certain statement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a certain adjustment to the State share percentage for a community college or a regional community college capital project if the county's median household income is in the bottom quartile in the State and the State share percentage for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a certain adjustment to the State share percentage for a community college or a regional community college capital project if the county's median household income is in the bottom quartile in the State and the State share percentage for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1519 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to amend certain policies and procedures governing procurements by the University System in a certain manner; and providing that the University System, Morgan State University, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to ask applicants for inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain employees of the Baltimore City School Police Force under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Foster Care Families Child Care Assistance Program in the State Department of Education to provide child care assistance through subsidies and scholarships to eligible foster care families; requiring the Department to establish a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1394 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that Baltimore City must provide a 25% match to receive State funds for certain operating expenses of the Enoch Pratt Free Library; requiring an appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund aging infrastructure construction and capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB921 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1398 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services for a certain time period at certain anima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to require the curriculum for family life and human sexuality instruction in Prince George's County schools begin no later than grade 6, provide age-appropriate instruction, include certain medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Montgomery County Public Schools to require training for school personnel on the prevention of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of religious discrimination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to amend certain policies and procedures governing procurements by the University System in a certain manner; and providing that the University System, Morgan State University, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1494 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of Maryland residents from 30 to 42 in the student body of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, contingent on certain agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1493 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a certified school principal who is actively leading a school as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board regarding conflicts between a decision or policy of the Board and another entity responsible for implementing an element of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student so that these students are eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education, county boards of education, and institutions of higher education in the State to update certain drug addiction and prevention education programs to include information on the mitigating effects of naloxone or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1433 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the career ladder for teachers to allow teachers with a certain higher degree to participate as an equivalent to teachers with National Board Certification; requiring the State Department of Education to study the efficacy of National Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Calvert County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a resident early childhood teaching certificate and a conditional early childhood teaching certificate for teachers who meet certain criteria in eligible publicly funded prekindergarten program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the age of children in family child care homes and large family child care homes, from under the age of 2 years to under the age of 15 months, under which certain limitations on the number of children in care and certain adult to child ratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the annual compensation of the members of the Calvert County Board of Education to be $9,500 for the president of the county board and $8,500 for the other members of the county board, subject to approval from the County Commissioners of C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1395 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to hire an ombudsman before the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year; requiring the president of the county board, in consultation with counsel for the county board, to negotiate the terms of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Extracurricular Activities for Homeschooled Students Pilot Program in Calvert County to allow homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities sponsored by public schools in the county; establishing the Workgroup to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a public middle school to begin instruction not before 8 a.m. and a public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless granted a waiver by the county board of education under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
