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MDHB167Engross
50%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the State, to submit a certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; and requiring the State Department of Ed...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB196Engross
50%
Prohibiting certain persons from allowing pupils to stand in a school bus while the school bus is in motion; requiring that school buses purchased after October 1, 2024, be equipped with seat belts that are accessible to passengers; requiring school ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB376Engross
50%
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendation...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB362Engross
50%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
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2024-03-18
Motion Special Order until 3/20 (Delegate Barnes) Adopted
MDHB428Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB541Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB598Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB691Engross
50%
Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all programs at institutions of higher education in the State; altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB771Engross
50%
Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB817Engross
50%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County to issue an alcoholic beverages license for an establishment that is within 500 feet of a place of worship or 1000 feet of a school building if a license of the same class had ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB821Engross
50%
Establishing a Student Support Specialist Network consisting of certain school-based personnel at each public high school in Prince George's County; requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop a certain template using certain g...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB899Engross
50%
Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all programs at institutions of higher education in the State; altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB971Engross
50%
Authorizing a county board of education to waive a certain eligibility requirement for participation in interscholastic athletics at a certain Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association member school for students who attend certain public...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB892Engross
50%
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1016Engross
50%
Establishing the Frederick County School Construction Master Plan Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to comprehensively evaluate all school facility needs in Frederick County and report its findings and recommendations to certain Frederick County...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB1042Engross
50%
Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the ASVAB and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to military recruiters; and repealing the requireme...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1102Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1052Engross
50%
Providing that, in the 46th alcoholic beverages district in Baltimore City, a certain license may be issued and an existing license may be moved to a building that is within a certain distance of a place of worship or school under certain circumstanc...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1167Engross
50%
Establishing the Statewide Secure Schools Emergency Response Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to improve the safety and security of public schools in the State by implementing a certain emergency notification system...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1157Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1189Engross
50%
Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn a certain number of credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming cour...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1257Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1287Engross
50%
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2024, an employment contract for the State Superintendent of Schools or county superintendents of schools to include a provision requiring the completion of a school leadership course or program during the initial term of...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1450Engross
50%
Establishing the Howard County Task Force to Study Revenue Options for School Capital Needs to identify capital needs of Howard County Public Schools and study options for closing any identified funding gaps; requiring the Howard County Council to su...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1386Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1409Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "public school employee" to include supervisory noncertificated employees in Dorchester County for purposes of collective bargaining.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1426Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1441Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB165Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB395Engross
50%
Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree under certain circumstances; requiring ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB482Engross
50%
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
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2024-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB540Engross
50%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the State Department of Education to provide funds to county Boards to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter school in the county to assist first responders in responding...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB657Engross
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...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB654Engross
50%
Establishing a Student Support Specialist Network consisting of certain school-based personnel at each public high school in Prince George's County; requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop a certain template using certain g...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1077Engross
50%
Increasing a certain annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures for fiscal year 2026 and further increasing the annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures beginning in fiscal year 2027; altering the allocation of cer...
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2024-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1058Engross
50%
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1492Intro
25%
Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the ASVAB and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to military recruiters; and repealing the requireme...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB883Engross
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...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB370Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB678Engross
50%
Altering certain principles of public higher education in the State to include a principle that public higher education in Maryland should be committed to promoting diversity and inclusion at certain institutions by attracting and graduating a divers...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1022Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1145Engross
50%
Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to pro...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB818Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments; requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct certain monitoring and adopt certain policies and procedures; prohibiting a unit of State government...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB86Engross
50%
Requiring each county board of education and authorizing nonpublic schools to update their policies to require school nurses and school personnel to complete certain training before they are authorized to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to cer...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB161Engross
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...
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2024-03-14
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB200Engross
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...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB21Engross
50%
Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to conduct a comprehensive study analyzing the current condition of public high school athletic and physical education facilities in the State and to report to the Governor and the General A...
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2024-03-14
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1219Engross
50%
Requiring each public school to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan beginning in the 2024-2025 school year.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1244Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1390Engross
50%
Repealing the provision of law that would have repealed the School Safety Grant Program on June 30, 2026.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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