| MD | HB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in kindergarten through grade 12; requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain employees of the Baltimore City School Police Force under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the High School Metal Detector Program in the Prince George's County Public School System to install a metal detector in each public high school in the county; requiring the Prince George's County Superintendent of schools to coordinate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1442 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Fiscal and Operational Viability of Public-Private Partnerships for Howard County Public Schools to study the use of public-private partnerships to reduce or increase the speed of school construction, the poten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1493 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or political subdivision of the State to deny the person's appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB1373 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Extracurricular Activities for Homeschooled Students Pilot Program in Calvert County to allow homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities sponsored by public schools in the county; establishing the Workgroup to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Calvert County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1385 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB1418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a public middle school to begin instruction not before 8 a.m. and a public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless granted a waiver by the county board of education under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1401 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the School Psychologist Recruitment Program within the State Department of Education to provide professional development programs and aid for a certification fee to school psychologists and individuals seeking to become school psychologi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1430 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services not locate training facilities with outdoor firearm ranges near a hospital, educational, state or local correctional, or juvenile facility; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to update the Maryland State Curriculum for Personal Financial Literacy Education and corresponding financial literacy standards to include certain content; requiring the State Board of Education to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1336 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a public school employer from entering into a certain subcontracting agreement unless certain circumstances occur; specifying the requirements for a public school employer to enter into a certain subcontracting agreement; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain curriculum standards and curriculum resources on or before January 1, 2025; requiring the State Department of Education to revise and enhance certain history and social studies frameworks to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a unit of instruction on Asian American history in public schools in the State; requiring each county board of education to implement the Asian American history curric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1432 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy related to pregnant and parenting students that is consistent with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and requiring each public institution of higher education to post...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to establish a pilot program to operate one or more schools within the county using an innovative scheduling model including extended year, year-round school, or a 4-day school week; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a child of certain judges to attend public school in a county other than the county where the child is domiciled if the child's parent is a judge and the county in which the child is domiciled is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with county boards of education and county superintendents of schools, to conduct a study on the transfer and awarding of credits by local school systems to in the State for successful comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Department of Education and in consultation with other relevant parties, to establish criteria for designating green schools in the State as model professional development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring a failing school to retain the failing school designation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to use a certain appropriation to update, by January 1, 2026, and maintain a certain website dedicated to green schools and becoming certified as a green school; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the St. Mary's County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Driver's Education Assistance Grant Program in the State Department of Education to support student driver's education instruction in public schools; and authorizing a public school to receive a grant under the Program if the percent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student so that these students are eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing sexual solicitation of a minor or human trafficking within 5 miles of certain locations; and increasing the distance surrounding certain school property within which a person is prohibited from committing a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a food retailer to offer to purchase a Class A license from a Class A license holder under certain circumstances; and authorizing a food retailer to apply to a local licensing board for a Class A license under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements of the School Construction Revolving Loan Fund to include the Maryland School for the Blind.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
