| 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 | 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 | HB325 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board by removing a member who is chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Association of Independent Schools and increasing the number of members chosen from lists pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| MD | SB311 | Pass | Extending the time period during which a certain method is used to calculate compensatory education enrollment through fiscal year 2028; repealing a termination date for the use of funds under the Concentration of Poverty Grant Program for the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 602 |
| MD | HB525 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, by the 2027-2028 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day; and prohibiting the policy from res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | HB546 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to make available a professional development course on educator well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2027; and requiring the Department to make the course a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 758 |
| MD | HB748 | Pass | Adding new pathways to the early childhood career ladder for eligible private prekindergarten providers that allow educators to meet certain experiential and educational qualifications within certain periods of time; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 618 |
| MD | SB529 | Pass | Requiring the University System of Maryland to develop, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission, certain recommendations for a Southern Maryland Early college Teacher Pathway Program and a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| MD | SB720 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to provide certain guidance on artificial intelligence to local school systems, educators, parents, and students through an online platform; requiring the Department to develop certain guidelines, best prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634 |
| MD | HB1582 | Pass | Altering the school quality indicators authorized for an educational accountability program in public schools; and prohibiting the use of certain indicators in an educational accountability system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593 |
| MD | SB198 | Pass | Requiring Prince George's Community College, in consultation with certain entities, to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study and program design assessment for aerospace and aviation systems technology workforce training programs; requiring Prince...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 784 |
| 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 | HB501 | Pass | Altering the penalty for a subsequent conviction of sexual offense by a person in a position of authority; prohibiting a certain person in a position of authority from committing a certain violation involving a child at least 6 years younger than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 426 |
| MD | SB418 | Pass | Authorizing members of the Foreign Service and spouses of members of the Foreign Service, for the duration of the assignment or detail, to practice in the State under an occupational or professional license issued in another state under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 |
| MD | HB856 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local school system in the State as an associate member of a certain national membership organization; and requiring each local school system in the State to utilize the Educator Identifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | SB648 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local school system in the State as an associate member of a certain national membership organization; and requiring each local school system in the State to utilize the Educator Identifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| MD | HB1120 | Pass | Authorizing members of the Foreign Service and spouses of members of the Foreign Service, under certain circumstances, to practice in the State under an occupational or professional license issued in another State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | HB358 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for a sale made at a book fair by an elementary or secondary school or a nonprofit parent-teacher organization or other nonprofit organization within an elementary or secondary school at an in-person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 186 |
| MD | SB403 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for a sale made at a book fair by an elementary or secondary school or a nonprofit parent-teacher organization or other nonprofit organization within an elementary or secondary school at a book fair, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| MD | SB810 | Pass | Requiring certain public school personnel to notify a county superintendent or a county superintendent's designee if the individual receives notification of certain immigration enforcement at a school; expanding the definition of sensitive locations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 161 |
| MD | SB262 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by certain teachers during a taxable year for the purchase of certain classroom supplies to include full-time teachers employed in certain pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 |
| MD | HB478 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by eligible teachers during a taxable year for the purchase of certain classroom supplies to include prekindergarten classroom teachers emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | HB479 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the University System of Maryland to develop, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission, certain recommendations for a Southern Maryland Early College Teacher Pathway Program and a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1057 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to provide certain guidance on artificial intelligence to Local school systems, educators, parents, and student through an online platform; requiring the Department to publish certain guidance for certain g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB904 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before July 1, 2027, the State Department of Education to design and develop a new system of professional development in public schools for paraeducators and other education support professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Senate Requests House Recede |
| MD | HB1254 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the policy of the State to use public school employees to perform functions for public schools in preference to contracting with the private sector; and requiring, under certain conditions, a county board of education that seeks to enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
To Senate Rules 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 | HB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain public school personnel to notify a county superintendent or a county superintendent's designee if the individual receives certain notification of certain immigration enforcement at a school; expanding the definition of sensitive lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Zucker) Adopted |
| 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 | SB407 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for a subsequent conviction of sexual offense by a person in a position of authority; prohibiting a certain person in a position of authority from committing a certain violation involving a child at least 6 years younger than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Historic, Cultural, and Civic Contributions in Education to study and make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission about certain lessons currently taught in public sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
To Senate Rules 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 | HB1059 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a program designed to assist with the accurate teaching of Asian American history; requiring the Department to identify certain courses and materials and make available a certain professional d...
[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 | HB352 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the limitation on the authorization to use personnel grants and per pupil grants under the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program to provide certain fine arts instructional programs through fiscal year 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB554 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law related to the Baltimore City Public School Board Community Panel; altering the process for appointments to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; requiring the Mayor of Baltimore City to hold a public hearing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1348 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing mandated reporters to report suspected labor trafficking or sex trafficking of a child to a regional navigator; and authorizing the Attorney General or a State's Attorney to investigate and prosecute human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB928 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2027-2028 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day; and prohibiting the pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB957 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that a teacher who holds a certain National Board Certification that was renewed between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2021, inclusive, and has a 10-year award period is eligible for certain salary increases associated with the career...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the time period during which a certain method is used to calculate compensatory education enrollment through fiscal year 2027; altering the qualifications for an initial teacher certificate; requiring the State Department of Education to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to receive certain service credit on the redeposit of contributions from the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1334 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to develop a parent and family engagement policy on or before the start of the 2027-2028 school year; requiring each public school in the State to develop a Parent-School Compact beginning in the 2028-2029 sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to make available a continuing professional development course on educator well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2027; and requiring the course be made avail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, to address a 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 authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education to allow, subject to certain requirements and policies, the use of therapy dogs in public schools in the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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 | HB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that a teacher who holds a certain National Board Certification awarded on or before December 31, 2021, that has an expiration date between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2031, inclusive, that has a 10-year award period, and that is sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain content standards regarding the culture and history of Palestine to be included in certain State standards for social studies; requiring the Department to develop certain curriculum guides and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
