| MD | HB678 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 |
| MD | HB1487 | Pass | Reestablishing the Maryland Entertainment Council to be the Maryland Entertainment Industry Council within the Department of Commerce to assess the State's existing assets, study certain existing State programs, agencies, and offices, and make recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 |
| MD | HB1526 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce to establish certain temporary relief programs to provide assistance to individuals and certain entities impacted by a certain closure of the Port of Baltimore; and authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | HB75 | Enroll
75% | 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 the evaluation requirements for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB545 | Enroll
75% | Expanding the Nancy Grasmick Public School Professional Award within the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include public school nurses who are licensed as registered nurses, provide health services in public schools, and are empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB685 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission in the Department of Commerce to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB899 | Enroll
75% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB999 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1055 | Engross
50% | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | HB1244 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1386 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board, to develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees; requiring each county board of education and certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1426 | Enroll
75% | 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; requiring the State Board to approve certain specifications for teachers and admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1441 | Enroll
75% | Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for certain funding to lease space to provide prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder for eligible privat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1047 | Enroll
75% | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB4 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference or donor preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB306 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Independent Innovation in Prince George's County to promote innovation and technology in the county; and requiring the Workgroup by January 15, 2026, to report on recommendations regarding strategies to support investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB891 | Engross
50% | Expanding the purpose and use of the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include providing grants and loans to anchor institutions for a certain purpose in sustaina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Motion Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Hayes) Adopted |
| MD | HB1287 | Enroll
75% | Altering the school leadership training program developed by the State Department of Education and the Accountability and Implementation Board to require that the State Superintendent, county superintendents, and senior instruction-related staff comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB354 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support certain students in licensed practical nursing education programs, alleviate the shortage of nursing professionals by increasing graduat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB837 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1037 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to identify reentry services in the State, develop a plan to establish a new division within the Department of Public Safety and Correctiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1271 | Engross
50% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB475 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Open-Source Phonics Matching Grant Program within the State Department of Education; requiring the Department to administer the Program; requiring the Governor each fiscal year to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB582 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB534 | Enroll
75% | Extending the termination date for the Live Near Your School program and a related homebuyer program from September 30, 2024, to September 30, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB607 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that applicants for a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship are not subject to certain requirements of the scholarship application process if the applicant enrolls in a noncredit vocational certificate program, enrolls in a sequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB811 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Financial Well-Being Pilot Program at the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to provide comprehensive financial guidance and coaching to help students who may benefit from financial coaching servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1086 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain benefits that a certain individual who has been erroneously convicted of a crime is entitled to receive; requiring the State to notify a certain individual of certain information in writing under certain circumstances when the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1150 | Enroll
75% | Exempting certain accounts under the Maryland 529 Program from the provisions of the Maryland Uniform Disposition of Abandoned Property Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1157 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB787 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Allegany Regional Recreational Economic Development Authority in Allegany County to support the development and construction of regional recreation facilities to benefit residents and the economic development of Allegany County, incl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB569 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB204 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB327 | Enroll
75% | Increasing by two members the membership of the Board of Community College Trustees for Anne Arundel County; and requiring the Governor to consider the geographic and ethnic representation of Anne Arundel County when making appointments to the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB367 | Enroll
75% | Requiring on or before certain dates each community college to develop and implement a plan to provide students with access to over-the-counter contraception; requiring each community college to submit a certain report to the Maryland Higher Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB539 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB624 | Enroll
75% | Altering the administrator of the Next Generation Scholars of Maryland Program to be the Maryland Higher Education Commission rather than the State Department of Education; and requiring the Department to assist the Commission with the review of appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB901 | Enroll
75% | Allowing an applicant of a part-time senatorial or delegate scholarship with a documented disability to request from the Maryland Higher Education Commission a waiver from the requirement to carry at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB945 | Enroll
75% | 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; authorizing a local school system to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB341 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State to provide to certain non-State-supported employees of the University System of Maryland and Morgan State University 100% of the cost-of-living adjustment the State provides to State employees, beginning in fiscal year 2026; and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1318 | Engross
50% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1522 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1189 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB393 | Engross
50% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time dentists and dental hygienists who are practicing under a general or limited license; and authorizing the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB771 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain members of a board of directors or certain officers of a council of unit owners of certain condominiums and certain members of a governing body of a homeowners association to successfully complete a training curriculum on the respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1267 | Engross
50% | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
