| MD | HB137 | Engross | Requiring that teachers employed by the Maryland School for the Deaf are in the professional service in the State Personnel Management System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB734 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, to ensure that a certain student is screened to identify if the student is at risk for reading difficulties; requiring the screening instrument to be based on foundat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB798 | Intro | Requiring, in Baltimore City, a certain system of active intervention for certain truant students developed by the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to include an Individualized Reengagement Plan for each truant student, coordination and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB35 | Engross | Requiring that teachers employed by the Maryland School for the Deaf are in the professional service in the State Personnel Management System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1407 | Engross | Authorizing or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering certain required appropriations; expanding the uses of certain funds; altering the cap for fiscal 2020 from 0.5% to 0.25% on a certain adjustment to a certain revenue estimate rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
(Senators Griffith, Zucker and Serafini) |
| MD | HB725 | Engross | Requiring a school principal to implement restorative approaches, rehabilitative, special education, or other supportive service interventions before suspending or expelling a student; authorizing a principal to suspend or expel a student before impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1229 | Engross | Establishing the Restorative Schools Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Fund; requiring the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1074 | Engross | Altering the categories of individuals who are authorized to be employed or contracted to provide education services for a 10-month or 2-month period with a salary commensurate with the period of employment; extending the date for the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB13 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services, for students committed to its custody, to notify a local superintendent of schools or school principal of a student's reportable offense or offense related to the student's membership in a criminal gang;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB961 | Intro | Requiring, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, each county board of education to require each public elementary school in the county to provide handwriting instruction that enables students to develop legible print handwriting by the end of the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB62 | Engross | Clarifying a provision authorizing a certain purchase of eligibility service credit in the Employees' Pension System for certain employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB265 | Engross | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment and has accrued a certain amount of eligi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB661 | Engross | Establishing community schools in the State; requiring a community school to have a community school coordinator and a community school leadership team; requiring the community school leadership team to conduct a certain assessment of needs and asset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB256 | Engross | Establishing the Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative in the State Department of Education to expand the use of the trauma-informed approach used in schools and intensively train schools on becoming trauma-informed schools; requiring the Department, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1224 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, to submit a report on or before April 30 each year to the State Board of Education and the General Assembly on computer science courses offered in public schools in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB496 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the State Department of Education, the Department of General Services, and Maryland Occupational Safety and Health, to adopt certain regulations under certain circumstances and to requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB422 | Engross | Altering the employment categories of certain employees of the State Department of Education; requiring that all positions in the Department be appointed positions in the professional service and skilled service as well as the executive service and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro | Requiring the Governor to include a certain amount in the State budget to the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education for fiscal years 2021 through 2025 to increase the number of green schools in the State; specifying the purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB223 | Engross | Authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on dwellings that are owned by certain eligible teachers; providing for the maximum amount of the credit; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB165 | Engross | Establishing the Safe Schools Maryland Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety to establish procedures for anonymous reporting of behaviors, involving one or more students, that are of concern, dangerous, violent, or unlawful, or the threat ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB270 | Engross | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at certain public institutions of higher education; establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for certain graduate assistants; and altering certain exceptions to the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB541 | Engross | Requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and certain contracting agencies to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring the county board, nonpublic school, or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB662 | Engross | Requiring the Governor to include a certain amount in the State budget to the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education for fiscal years 2021 through 2026 to increase the number of green schools in the State; specifying the purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB463 | Intro | Establishing a Public School Employee of the Year Award in the State Department of Education to provide recognition to public school employees who provide essential services to public schools in the State and contribute to a positive instructional en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB153 | Engross | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment and has accrued a certain amount of eligi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB469 | Engross | Requiring the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to make arrangements for the safe custody of investments with one or more duly qualified custodian banks or trust companies; and exempting cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1413 | Intro | Establishing principles of The Blueprint for Maryland's Future that are intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems around the world; establishing a Concentration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means) and Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) |
| MD | SB1041 | Intro | Requiring the Office of Health Care Quality to establish, by December 31, 2020, a training program and a skills review and check for nurses who care for medically fragile individuals in the homes of the medically fragile individuals; authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB757 | Intro | Altering the method for determining the amount of time devoted to the administration of federal, State, and locally mandated assessments; and limiting the amount of time that is devoted to the administration of these assessments to not more than 1 sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB110 | Engross | Requiring physical education to be provided in each public school in a planned and sequential manner to all students, prekindergarten through grade 12, for the purpose of developing the students' good health and physical fitness and to improve motor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB295 | Engross | Prohibiting a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that receives State funds from refusing enrollment of, expelling, withholding privileges from, or discriminating against any student or prospective student because of an individual's race, color,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB367 | Engross | Prohibiting a county board of education or public school from spending any money from any source to directly or indirectly provide a teacher with a firearm or train a teacher in the use of a firearm; and providing the Act does not apply to a school-a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB486 | Engross | Requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring a county board, nonpublic school, or contracting ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB1040 | Intro | Authorizing or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; altering the cap for fiscal 2020 from 0.5% to 0.25% on a certain adjustment to a certain revenue estimate relating to nonwithholding i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB64 | Engross | Providing that certain employees of the Maryland School for the Deaf are not entitled to annual leave with pay; and clarifying that employees of the Maryland School for the Deaf who work 11 months or less in a calendar year are entitled to a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB119 | Engross | Clarifying a provision authorizing a certain purchase of eligibility service credit in the Employees' Pension System for certain employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB544 | Intro | Prohibiting a county board of education from establishing a no-zero grading policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an employee of a public or private preschool, elementary school, or secondary school; and providing penalties for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1030 | Intro | Establishing principles of The Blueprint for Maryland's Future that are intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems around the world; establishing a Concentration ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Hearing 3/06 at 4:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| MD | HB779 | Intro | Requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2021 through 2035, to include in the annual State operating budget at least $16,660,000 in general funds for each historically black college and university in the State; providing for the allowable uses of cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1143 | Intro | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain tenured or tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, and graduate student employees at certain public institutions of higher education; altering certain exceptions to the applicability of provisions of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB94 | Intro | Authorizing the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to accept an application for an accidental disability retirement allowance from certain individuals within 3 years after the individuals' retirement; requiring that the acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB578 | Intro | Authorizing the principal of a public school to require a student to serve an in-school suspension for cause; and authorizing the principal of a public school to require a parent or guardian of a student serving an in-school suspension to attend 1 da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB948 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an employee of a public or private preschool, elementary school, or secondary school; and providing penalties for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB188 | Intro | Authorizing a student in a public school or nonpublic school to choose not to participate in or observe, in whole or in part, classwork or an assessment that includes certain actions conducted on a live, dead, or severed part of an animal; authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB87 | Engross | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to add two regular members who are certified teachers with certain experience and a parent of a student enrolled in a public school in the State; authorizing teacher members to be appointed to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB828 | Intro | Providing certain survivor benefits to surviving children of certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System; providing for the payment of a certain allowance to surviving children of a member when there is no surviving spouse; providing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB735 | Intro | Establishing a cash balance plan under the State Retirement and Pension System; providing that certain individuals are not eligible to participate in the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System if they elect to participate in the ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB148 | Intro | Establishing the Safe Schools Maryland Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; requiring the School Safety Subcabinet to develop program guidance on or before September 1, 2019; requiring a local school system that elects to participate in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB733 | Intro | Establishing community schools in the State; requiring a community school to have a community school coordinator and a community school leadership team; requiring the community school leadership team to conduct a certain assessment of needs and asset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
