| MD | SB84 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Department of Labor to provide high school and college students, and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring the establishment of apprenticeships tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB541 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing the purpose of the program is to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; repealing certain certification requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB1157 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1211 | Engross 50% | Establishing an exemption from a reemployed retiree earnings offset for retirees of the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed by certain employers if the retiree's salary is funded from certain sources; and providing for the retroactive applica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross 50% | Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to support the Artif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1426 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Engross 50% | Establishing certain requirements for a teacher's certificate in early childhood education; altering the teaching credentials required for staff of qualified providers for prekindergarten services for purposes of the Prekindergarten Grant Program; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB785 | Engross 50% | Establishing the State standards for libraries for the operation of each library that receives funding from the State; altering the duties of the State Library Board, the State Library Agency, and regional resource centers to incorporate the State st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1386 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education and certain nonpublic schools to provide each employee with training on the prevention of antisemitism and Islamophobia each year; requiring institutions of higher education to include specific training on the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB143 | Engross 50% | Clarifying a certain exemption from a certain reemployment offset for retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System and Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed by a local school system under certain conditions; and providing for the retroactive app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB366 | Engross 50% | Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offset... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB657 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing that the purpose of the program is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB771 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; repealing certain certification requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB883 | Engross 50% | Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB662 | Engross 50% | Requiring that certain regulations governing the registration and operation of large family child care homes and the licensing and operation of child care centers require that child care teachers be at least 18 years old. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB161 | Engross 50% | Authorizing each county board of education that has fewer than 40 community schools and that receives funding from the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program for the personnel grant and the per pupil grant to expend not more than 15% of the fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB200 | Engross 50% | Authorizing each county board of education that has fewer than 40 community schools and that receives funding from the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program for the personnel grant and the per pupil grant to expend no more than 10% of the fun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB322 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to implement an automatic enrollment arrangement for State employees who are hired on or after January 1, 2025; and requiring an eligible... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1140 | Engross 50% | Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB137 | Engross 50% | Providing that a member of the administrative, educational, or support staff of any public, private, or parochial school, acting in an official capacity, is not civilly liable for personal injury or property damage resulting from intervention in a st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB191 | Engross 50% | 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 employees of the Prince George's County Public School System; pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB377 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "institution of initial eligibility" to include community colleges as eligible institutions as part of the criteria for applicants for the Teacher Development and Retention Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB416 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-02-26 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-02-26 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB75 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "institution of initial eligibility" to include community colleges as eligible institutions as part of the criteria for applicants for the Teacher Development and Retention Program; altering certain school years for partici... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1370 | Intro 25% | Requiring Montgomery County Public Schools to require training for school personnel on the prevention of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of religious discrimination. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB414 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-02-14 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro 25% | 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 | HB1385 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a resident early childhood teaching certificate and a conditional early childhood teaching certificate for teachers who meet certain criteria in eligible publicly funded prekindergarten program... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1433 | Intro 25% | 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 | HB1430 | Intro 25% | Providing that parents of children in public schools have certain rights regarding information and communication from the children's local school system about education and school-related topics. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB823 | Intro 25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro 25% | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1326 | Intro 25% | Requiring each county board of education to adopt a new teacher retention policy; altering the content required to be included in certain teacher support and retention guidelines developed by the State Board of Education; and altering the content req... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB917 | Intro 25% | Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB937 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB979 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to supp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB984 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Secretary of Labor to prioritize activities, programs, and services that contribute to meeting a certain statewide goal when administering the business of the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the State Board of Education, rather ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB927 | Intro 25% | Establishing second degree assault of an employee or a subcontractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school as a crime of violence for certain purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB535 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Task Force on Educator Housing to evaluate and make recommendations on options for addressing the lack of access to attainable housing for educators in the State and to evaluate the correlation between the lack of access to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB758 | Intro 25% | Establishing second degree assault of an employee or a subcontractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school as a crime of violence for certain purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB493 | Intro 25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB789 | Intro 25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB426 | 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; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB545 | Intro 25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for all public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |