| MD | HB702 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| MD | SB602 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 543 |
| MD | SB572 | Pass | Altering the scope of certain limitations on the authority of the Anne Arundel County Council to grant exemptions from or credits against development impact fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 472 |
| MD | HB226 | Pass | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to operate all schools within the county using a scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days to allow for less than 180 school days if the minimal hours of attendance are met; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| MD | HB161 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to adopt curriculum guides and courses of study aligned with content standards established by the State Department of Education; establishing a process for correcting discrepancies identified by the State Supe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 245 |
| MD | HB197 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 |
| MD | SB68 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 |
| MD | SB109 | Pass | Requiring each school board to certify to the State Ethics Commission, on or before October 1 each year, that the school board is in compliance with certain requirements of the Maryland Public Ethics Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| MD | HB324 | Pass | Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 301 |
| MD | SB293 | Pass | Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term; and requiring that the antibias training be conducted separately from certain other required public school employee tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
| MD | HB504 | Pass | Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 |
| MD | HB839 | Pass | Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 |
| MD | HB1204 | Pass | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission; requiring certain schools and individualized education program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 |
| MD | HB1207 | Pass | Altering the compensation of the student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 426 |
| MD | HB1524 | Pass | Altering, beginning with the general election in 2026, the districts from which certain members of the Wicomico County Board of Education are elected; adding at least one student member from the 11th or 12th grade in good standing and regularly enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 |
| MD | SB923 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, to develop and periodically update a list of similar high school sports that are categorized together; requiring a county bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| MD | SB244 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; altering the content of a certain report on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| MD | HB235 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; requiring the Office to submit a yearly repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164 |
| MD | HB1378 | Pass | Altering certain provisions relating to the award of noneconomic damages to a claimant in an action for child sexual abuse; altering certain provisions relating to the liability of the State under the Maryland Tort Claims Act and of a local governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104 |
| MD | SB307 | Pass | Increasing the scholarship award for a student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who completes a full term on the county board from $8,000 to $15,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | HB402 | Pass | Increasing the scholarship award for a student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who completes a full term on the county board from $8,000 to $15,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB147 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy on the use of a personal electronic device during school hours; requiring that the policy limit the use of a smartphone and a device connected to a smartphone during instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Vogel and Hornberger) |
| MD | SB130 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with stakeholders, to develop guidelines for a policy on student use of personal electronic devices during school hours; requiring county boards of education, in consultation with students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (140-0) |
| MD | SB601 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (135-0) |
| MD | SB673 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB897 | Intro
25% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB1316 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a youth-centric technology and social media resource guide by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB569 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to operate all of the schools within the county using a school scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days to allow for less than 180 school days if the minimal hours of attendance are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB547 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB429 | Engross
50% | Altering the definitions of "target per pupil foundation amount", "collaborative time per pupil amount", "compensatory education per pupil amount", "English learner per pupil amount", "special education per pupil amount", "growth in the target per pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB486 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; requiring the Departments, by December 1, 2027, and each December 1 thereafter, to j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB772 | Engross
50% | Directing county boards of education to provide certain funding to local workforce development boards to support the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; altering a certain reporting requirement of local workforce developmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1267 | Engross
50% | Authorizing public schools to designate Veterans' Day as a public school holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1512 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county board of education to reappoint an incumbent county superintendent in a certain manner; and authorizing a county board, at any point during the incumbent superintendent's term, to take action at a public meeting not later than Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1169 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education and the Montgomery County Board of Education to close public schools in the county to students beginning in the 2026-2027 school year in observance of Yom Kippur and Juneteenth and to observe the first d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1266 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Land Use Issues In Prince George's County to review the role of the County Planning Board, evaluate the list of person that have standing to seek judicial review and appeal to the Appellate Court, the expiration p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB136 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the reallocation of grants from the Safe Schools Fund to local school systems that have fully expended their grant allocation and demonstrate unmet need within the same fiscal year; and requiring the School Safety Subcabinet to notify loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB439 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "high impact economic development activity" to exclude cost savings related to the reduction in the number of University System of Maryland or Morgan State University employees; requiring the Board of Regents of the Univers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB543 | Engross
50% | Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB770 | Engross
50% | Requiring each local school system to provide crisis support to a public school when a teacher or other school employee with direct contact with minors is removed from the school due to alleged criminal activity or for student safety; requiring each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB845 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local education agency in the State as an associate member of a national organization to utilize the Educator Identification Clearinghouse for screening individuals who apply to be educator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB885 | Engross
50% | Altering the procedures used to fill a vacancy of a voting member of the Carroll County Board of Education under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB23 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of certain commercial and industrial property and to set a special property tax rate for certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB656 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain members of the Baltimore County Board of Education to be elected from certain districts in certain elections; and establishing the process for how the Baltimore County school board districts are reapportioned after each decennial ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB887 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a county board of education to reappoint an incumbent county superintendent in a certain manner; and authorizing a county board to take action at a public meeting to reappoint the incumbent superintendent at any time after the end of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; requiring a county board to provide suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB771 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing certain information on student dental health on the school system's website and in student handbooks; and requiring the Maryland Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB42 | Engross
50% | Establishing, beginning July 1, 2027, the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling, compost use, wasted food preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB587 | Engross
50% | Authorizing certain individuals honorably discharged from military service to obtain a high school diploma if the individuals withdrew from a full-time public or private high school to enlist in the armed forces of the United States during certain wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
