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MDHB522Enroll
75%
Requiring each county board of education to establish a policy to accommodate students who need telehealth appointments during the school day; requiring each public middle and high school to designate a certain space for student telehealth appointmen...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB492Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
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2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB541Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB540Enroll
75%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB837Engross
50%
Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1024Engross
50%
Requiring that each public middle and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; and requiring each public middle and high school to review and update the cardi...
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2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1042Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB814Enroll
75%
Altering certain provisions relating to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices; altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering cer...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB818Enroll
75%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumstances; prohibiting a unit o...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB696Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB165Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB441Enroll
75%
Expanding the Nancy Grasmick Public School Professional Award within the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include school nurses who are licensed as registered nurses, provide health services in public schools, and are employed by...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB592Enroll
75%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1157Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1450Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB691Enroll
75%
Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all courses at institutions of higher education in the State; and altering the maximum award available, when a scholarsh...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDHB376Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB416Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDSB432Engross
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...
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2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB569Enroll
75%
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 if the course is not classified as reme...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1186Engross
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 through 2035; requiring the Howard County ...
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2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1485Intro
25%
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,...
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2024-04-01
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means
MDHB204Enroll
75%
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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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDHB336Enroll
75%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDHB472Enroll
75%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
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2024-03-29
Passed Enrolled
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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2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB762Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means 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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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
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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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1145Engross
50%
Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1123Intro
25%
Extending the termination date for certain provisions of law that reduce the school facilities surcharge for certain multifamily housing, exempt certain dwelling units from the school facilities surcharge, authorize the governing body of Prince Georg...
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2024-03-21
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1150Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony, and in addition to any other p...
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2024-03-21
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB414Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations 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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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1022Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each perform certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the workforce needs in the State and wo...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB167Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB730Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll...
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2024-03-19
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 credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming course or an equally rig...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB196Engross
50%
Requiring the public school safety education program to include student instruction concerning school bus safety and the proper use of seat belts on school buses; requiring that school buses purchased after July 1, 2027, be equipped with 3-point seat...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB771Engross
50%
Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1257Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1140Engross
50%
Requiring a virtual tutoring service that contracts with a county board of education, including the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, or a nonpublic school to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtual tuto...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB473Engross
50%
Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1058Intro
25%
Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain employees of the Baltimore City School Police Force under certain circumstances.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB818Intro
25%
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...
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2024-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1061Intro
25%
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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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB163Intro
25%
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; ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB399Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB352Intro
25%
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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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB694Intro
25%
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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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
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