| MD | SB707 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | HB760 | Pass | Requiring each local school system, on or before November 1 of the third year of a 6-year audit cycle, to submit a report to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee on the status of implementation of corrective actions to address repeat findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| MD | HB1026 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 |
| MD | SB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education, a nonpublic school, or a contracting agency that has contracted with a virtual tutoring service to require the virtual tutoring service to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Patterson and Fair) |
| MD | HB1354 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing public schools to designate Veterans' Day as a public school holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1024 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that each public middle and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; and requiring each public middle and high school to review and update the cardi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 | SB784 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB84 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school and college students and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring a sponsor particpating in a teac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB21 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to conduct a comprehensive study analyzing the current condition of public high school athletic and physical education facilities in the State and to report to the Governor and the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB762 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1058 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Engross
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] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1164 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1189 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming course or an equally rig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a virtual tutoring service that contracts with a county board of education, including the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, or a nonpublic school to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtual tuto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to submit a report on community schools to the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2024; and requiring the Department to submit a report summarizing the reports received from county boards t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the High School Metal Detector Program in the Prince George's County Public School System to install a metal detector in each public high school in the county; requiring the Prince George's County Superintendent of schools to coordinate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1413 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Prince George's Development Authority in Prince George's County to support and develop a certain neighborhood revitalization plan in coordination with certain residents; and requiring, on or before October 31, 2026, the Authority to ...
[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 | 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 |
