| MD | HB277 | Enroll | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, to develop and distribute guidelines on a trauma-informed approach to assist schools with understanding and resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB446 | Enroll | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education to require certain institutions of postsecondary education to refund all tuition and fees to certain Maryland students under certain circumstances; establishing that an institution that closes programs in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB604 | Enroll | Authorizing a parent or legal guardian of a medical cannabis patient under the age of 18 years to designate an adult to be a caregiver, in addition to the parent or legal guardian; increasing the number of caregivers a patient may be assigned; repeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1569 | Intro | Prohibiting a youth athlete who has been removed from play from returning to play until the athlete has obtained a written clearance from a certain licensed health care provider and been cleared to return to full academic participation; limiting a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1052 | Engross | Repealing a certain exception authorizing, under certain circumstances, a student who is a registered sex offender to enter onto real property used for public or nonpublic elementary or secondary education; requiring a county board of education to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1652 | Intro | Establishing the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters in the Maryland Department of Labor for purposes of ensuring effective communications for deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing persons and to promote the public welfare by regulating those w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Unfavorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB294 | Enroll | Prohibiting certain for-profit institutions of higher education and private career schools from enrolling new Maryland residents if, beginning in fiscal year 2023, federal funds exceed 10% of annual revenues; requiring the Maryland Higher Education C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB617 | Enroll | Authorizing a parent or legal guardian of a medical cannabis patient under the age of 18 years to designate not more than two additional adults to be a caregiver, in addition to the parent or legal guardian; specifying that the definition of "caregi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1008 | Engross | Authorizing the hiring of a certain emergent employee by a county board of education or nonpublic school for a period not to exceed 60 days under certain conditions; authorizing a county board or nonpublic school to take certain actions within the 60...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1234 | Engross | Authorizing a county board of education to provide transportation to and from school for certain students using a vehicle other than a Type I or Type II school vehicle when a school vehicle cannot reasonably be provided; and requiring the State Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1300 | Enroll | Repealing, altering, and adding certain provisions of law to implement The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which is intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB533 | Engross | Making an individual eligible for a certificate to teach students in a Montessori school if the individual holds a Montessori-related credential from a certain organization and a bachelor's degree; authorizing the State Board of Education to require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB258 | Engross | Prohibiting public and nonpublic school employees from operating an electric retractable room partition in a school except under certain circumstances; requiring any annual safety review, evaluation, or exercise for school employees in a certain scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB245 | Engross | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a page on its website that includes clear information about voter registration and voting by students enrolled in institutions of higher education, including links to information on voting by absente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1204 | Engross | Prohibiting a county board, public or nonpublic prekindergarten programs, and public or nonpublic primary or secondary schools that receive State funds from discriminating against a person because of certain factors, refusing enrollment of, expelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1067 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the State Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of General Services, to adopt certain regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Intro | Requiring any State aid from the Joseph A. Sellinger Program provided to private nonprofit institutions of higher education located in Frederick County to be used only to provide financial aid awards to students who graduated from a high school in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB802 | Engross | Providing that a staff member of a school, acting in an official capacity, is not civilly liable for personal injury or property damage resulting from intervention in a student altercation or other student disturbance if the staff member intervened i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB876 | Intro | Limiting the in-person sales or distributions of vaping liquid by electronic smoking devices retailers and vape shop vendors to age-restricted areas; requiring electronic smoking devices retail licensees and vape shop vendors selling vaping liquid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB647 | Intro | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a page on its website that includes clear information about voter registration and voting by students enrolled in institutions of higher education, including links to information on voting by absente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB992 | Engross | Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" for purposes of certain provisions of law requiring the periodic testing for the presence of lead in drinking water outlets in occupied public and nonpublic school buildings; and requiring by August...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1075 | Intro | Renaming the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be the Alcohol, Cannabis, and Tobacco Commission; providing that a member of the Commission may not have a certain interest, ownership, or management in the cannabis industry; establishing the Advisory C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1645 | Intro | Providing that a certain law prohibiting a registered sex offender from entering onto real property used for public or nonpublic elementary or secondary education applies to a student who is a registered sex offender and has been convicted of a sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB470 | Intro | Requiring certain for-profit institutions of higher education and private career schools to report certain information on revenues and spending to the Maryland Higher Education Commission on or before June 30 each year; annually requiring that, on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB445 | Intro | Requiring certain for-profit institutions of higher education and private career schools to report certain information on revenues and spending to the Maryland Higher Education Commission on or before June 30 each year; requiring that, on or after Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1028 | Intro | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, disseminate, and publish online model safety guidelines on the safe operation of electric retractable room partitions; and authorizing the governing body of a county to enact a local law prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1638 | Intro | Repealing a certain exception authorizing, under certain circumstances, a student who is a registered sex offender to enter onto real property used for public or nonpublic elementary or secondary education; requiring a county board of education to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1552 | Intro | Establishing an Education Savings Account program in the State; stating the purpose of the program; establishing the requirements for participation in the program; requiring a certain deposit into the account of certain students; establishing a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1625 | Intro | Stating that the purpose of the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program is to provide concentration of poverty school grants to county boards of education; altering the fiscal years during which the State is required to distribute a concentrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1624 | Intro | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to notify the parent or legal guardian of a student who attends a failing school that the school is a failing school and provide a list of available alternative school option...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1613 | Intro | Repealing a requirement that a speed monitoring system in a school zone may operate only Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB418 | Intro | Establishing an Education Savings Account program in the State; stating the purpose of the program; establishing the requirements for participation in the program; requiring a certain deposit into the account of certain students; establishing a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1005 | Intro | Requiring public schools and nonpublic schools that receive State funds to notify parents or guardians of certain students involved in an incident of problematic sexual behavior by the close of business on the day of the incident; and requiring a cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1043 | Intro | Clarifying a requirement for the State Department of Education to collect data on restraint and seclusion incidents; requiring the Department to provide any data gathered under the Act to the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center; requiring the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1157 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from altering the grade of a student to purposefully misrepresent the student's performance, knowledge, or achievement in a course; and establishing a penalty of up to 1 year of imprisonment for a violation of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1344 | Intro | Making an individual eligible for a certificate to teach students in a Montessori school if the individual holds a Montessori-related credential from a certain organization and a bachelor's degree; authorizing the State Board of Education to require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1345 | Intro | Altering the circumstances under which certain students or youth athletes may return to play; requiring a youth sports program to maintain and update a certain registry of youth sports program personnel; requiring the registry to include certain item...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1323 | Intro | Requiring that the State Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Services, after consultation with the Education Coordinating Council for Juvenile Services Educational Programs and county boards of education, to develop and implement a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1513 | Intro | Repealing certain provisions of law regarding educational programs for juveniles in residential facilities; establishing a Juvenile Services Education System; establishing the Board of Education for the Juvenile Services Education System; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1000 | Intro | Repealing, altering, and adding certain provisions of law to implement The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which is intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro | Substituting the term "cannabis" for the term "marijuana" in certain provisions of law; altering a certain quantity threshold and establishing a certain age limit applicable to a certain civil offense of use or possession of cannabis; establishing an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1475 | Intro | Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" for purposes of certain provisions of law requiring the periodic testing for the presence of lead in drinking water outlets in occupied public and nonpublic school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1540 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the State Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of General Services, to adopt certain regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB976 | Intro | Repealing a requirement that a speed monitoring system in a school zone may operate only Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB367 | Intro | 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 to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB549 | Intro | Requiring a county board of education and authorizing a nonpublic school, beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, to require at least two school employees to be trained in recognizing the signs and symptoms of a seizure, administering first aid for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB798 | Intro | Repealing certain provisions of law regarding educational programs for juveniles in residential facilities; establishing a Juvenile Services Education System; establishing the Board of Education for the Juvenile Services Education System; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB575 | Intro | Requiring the State Board of Education and certain nonpublic schools to develop and implement a program of age-appropriate education on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault; and including, for students in grades 6 through 8, mater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB773 | Intro | Requiring each county board of education and authorizing nonpublic schools in the State to establish a policy to authorize certain school personnel to administer bronchodilators to certain students under certain circumstances; prohibiting a school nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB469 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education to require certain institutions of postsecondary education to refund all tuition and fees to certain Maryland students if the institution does not file all essential records of the academic achievement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
