| MD | HB141 | Pass | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at certain public institutions of higher education; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park or the University of Maryland, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 774 |
| MD | SB6 | Pass | Providing collective bargaining rights to nontenure track faculty of system institutions of higher education, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland whose primary assignments involve academic instruction, including teachers, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695 |
| MD | HB168 | Pass | Authorizing a county board of education to consider the provision of educator workforce housing as a school purpose under certain provisions of law; altering the eligible recipients of certain financial assistance and the housing innovation projects ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 |
| MD | SB238 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | HB340 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 |
| MD | HB430 | Pass | Requiring a family child care provider who is a member of a reserve component to designate a substitute to provide family child care for not more than 45 working days in any 12-month period while the family child care provider is absent for required ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | HB586 | Pass | Authorizing a county board of library trustees to provide for the selection of a student member of the board; and establishing the qualifications, setting a 1-year term of office, and providing for the voting rights of the student member of a county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| MD | HB561 | Pass | Requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal years 2028 through 2030, to appropriate to the Maryland Child Care Credential Program $5,687,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 |
| MD | SB378 | Pass | Renaming the Young Readers Matching Grant Program to be the Young Readers Grant Program; altering the purpose and application requirements of the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| MD | SB410 | Pass | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 702 |
| MD | HB660 | Pass | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| MD | SB467 | Pass | Requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal years 2028 through 2030, to appropriate to the Maryland Child Care Credential Program $5,687,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 |
| MD | HB742 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $450,000 in the annual budget bill for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2028 through 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 699 |
| MD | SB503 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $450,000 in the annual budget bill for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2028 through 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 |
| MD | SB535 | Pass | Authorizing a county board of library trustees to provide for the selection of a student member of the board; and establishing the qualifications, setting a 1-year term of office, and providing for the voting rights of the student member of a county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 622 |
| MD | HB849 | Pass | Prohibiting a freeze in enrollment in the Child Care Scholarship Program from including certain individuals enrolled in certain governmental support programs, children with siblings enrolled in the Program, and children who are homeless; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| MD | HB1321 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to identify, inform, and assist Child Care Scholarship Program applicants who qualify for enrollment in publicly funded prekindergarten, Head Start, and Early Head Start subject to certain conditions; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | SB81 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a student enrolled in a school where the law enforcement officer is assigned as a school resource officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| MD | HB329 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a student enrolled in a school where the law enforcement officer is assigned as a school resource officer; and providing that a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| MD | SB359 | Pass | Requiring individuals who will have direct contact with children in certain child care facilities to submit to a criminal history records check; requiring the State Department of Education, by June 30, 2027, to establish a centralized unit for the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| MD | HB635 | Pass | Requiring individuals who will have direct contact with children in certain child care facilities to submit to a criminal history records check; requiring the State Department of Education to establish a centralized unit for the processing and manage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 360 |
| MD | HB297 | Pass | Establishing the MDiplomaWorks pathway as an alternative method of earning a high school diploma in the State; providing the MDiplomaWorks pathway is a method to recognize and certify high school diploma achievement through demonstrated academic and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 |
| MD | SB70 | Pass | Establishing the MDiplomaWorks pathway as an alternative method of earning a high school diploma in the State; establishing the Program as a method to recognize and certify high school diploma achievement through demonstrated academic and career comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 168 |
| MD | HB106 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing collective bargaining rights to nontenure track faculty of system institutions of higher education, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland whose primary assignments involve academic instruction, including teachers, resea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1574 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a certain grace period for the implementation of new or substantively amended regulations adopted on or after July 1, 2026, subject to certain conditions; and altering the requirements that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB649 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission on Civil Rights to enforce a prohibition against discrimination and retaliation in educational institutions based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB84 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at the University of Maryland, College Park or the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student who is a teaching, administrative,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1034 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a child care providers in registered family child care homes and registered large family child care homes and licensees and staff of a child care center to complete training on the detection and reporting of child abuse at certain intervals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB57 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Education to establish a process to include a notation indicating veteran status on licenses and public profiles of primary and secondary educators; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1592 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of certain funding for certain regional resource centers and each county public library system for certain fiscal years; altering the types of services of which each public library is required to offer at least one service to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, for applications received after July 1, 2026, to establish a framework to prioritize the children of individuals who provide care for children in licensed child care centers, registered family child care h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Education Savings Account Program in the State administered by the State Department of Education; providing that on a quarterly basis the State shall deposit into an account of an eligible student a certain percentage of the per pupi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose, composition, and duties of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Committee; repealing the CTE Skills Standards Advisory Committee; and requiring State agencies and certain workforce development and education programs to use a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro
Sine Die | Acknowledging the importance of teaching a culturally diverse curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in the State; providing that curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools should include the history of communities that have experie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore First Responders Child Care Support and Accessibility Program within the State Department of Education's Office of Child Care to support and expand a pilot program in Baltimore City that provides monthly child care allowanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1278 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Positive Youth Development Commission in the State Department of Education to make grant awards to certain eligible organizations that provide positive youth development programming to certain youth; establishing the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1492 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that certain certificated and noncertificated public school employees, library system employees, and employer organizations have the right to engage in a strike; repealing the authority of the Public Employee Relations Board to deny or r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to study and make recommendations on establishing an independent regulatory framework for after school and out of school time child care programs; and requiring the Department to submit a report of its find...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a school from discriminating against an applicant for employment or an employee because of the applicant's or the employee's legal use of cannabis outside the workplace, outside of work hours, and without the use of the school's equipment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law relating to an opioid overdose reversal drug to allow for the possession, storage, or administration of an expired opioid overdose reversal drug within 1 year after the expiration date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Institute for Literacy and Equity organized as a partnership between the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to serve as a State-funded research and technical assistance center to promote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Positive Youth Development Commission in the State Department of Education to make grant awards to certain eligible organizations that provide positive youth development programming to certain youth; establishing the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup on Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students to study ways to support transgender and gender diverse students and, on or before December 1, 2026, make recommendations regarding statewide statutory and regulatory po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools, beginning September 1, 2027, to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a framework, for applications received after July 1, 2026, to prioritize the children of individuals who provide care for children in licensed child care centers, registered family child care h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; and requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to report certain information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide a pathway for individuals who are qualified to be child care teachers, but lack proof of necessary educational attainment, to attest to qualifying educational credentials to be a child care teacher t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Adult Prison School Board Model Development Committee to develop a comprehensive plan for a school board system to oversee correctional education for individuals subject to the criminal and juvenile justice systems; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB473 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on a public school employer negotiating the maximum number of students assigned to a class.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, by September 1 each year, the reporting of certain procurement contracts and memoranda of understanding entered into by certain public elementary and secondary education systems in the State; requiring, by October 1 each year, the State Su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
