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MDHB678PassAltering 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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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38
MDHB1487PassReestablishing 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...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70
MDSB1188PassEstablishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3
MDHB1526PassRequiring 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...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2
MDHB75Enroll
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 ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB69Enroll
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.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB377Enroll
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.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB430Enroll
75%
Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB482Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB500Enroll
75%
Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB545Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB685Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB657Enroll
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 that the purpose of the program is...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB737Enroll
75%
Requiring that a member of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees be a resident of Harford County for the duration of the member's term; altering the membership of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees so that all members are at la...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB800Enroll
75%
Exempting certain accounts under the Maryland 529 Program from the provisions of the Maryland Uniform Disposition of Abandoned Property Act.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB899Enroll
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 ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB999Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB937Enroll
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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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1099Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1055Engross
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...
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2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted
MDHB1244Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1386Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1426Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1441Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1120Enroll
75%
Approving certain projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of certain academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; authorizing the issuance of bonds by the University System of Maryland for financing the projects; and ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1134Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1142Enroll
75%
Requiring the Comptroller to distribute $250,000 of certain abandoned property funds to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund, which provides grants to the University of Maryland School of Law, the University of Baltimore School of Law, and...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1178Enroll
75%
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1047Enroll
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB345Enroll
75%
Establishing the Vision Zero Advisory Commission to advise the Department of Transportation on best practices intended to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on roadways in all modes of ground transportation using data-driven prevention strategies,...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB949Engross
50%
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...
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2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB1184Enroll
75%
Establishing a Class B-CAEVC (College Athletic Event Venue Concessionaire) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Prince George's County to issue the license to a certain concession...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB205Enroll
75%
Requiring that certain appointing officials in making appointments to the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland ensure that one member of the Board is a graduate of a historically Black college or university in the University System o...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB4Enroll
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...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB306Enroll
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...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB395Enroll
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 under certain circumstances; requiring ...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDSB516Enroll
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...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB543Engross
50%
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...
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2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB718Enroll
75%
Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; requiring the Secretary of Higher Education to issue grants to at least two pilot sites that meet certain requirements by July 1, 2025; requiring ...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB891Engross
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...
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2024-04-06
Motion Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Hayes) Adopted
MDHB1287Enroll
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...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB33Enroll
75%
Requiring certain county boards of education to consider the pursuit of certain certificates, certifications, or apprenticeships as the equivalent of pursuing postsecondary education and provide a method for a student or a student's parent or guardia...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB354Engross
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...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB376Enroll
75%
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual State budget for the MPowering Joint Steering Council to use exclusively on the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing a General Fund appropriation of $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2026, $3,0...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB362Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
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
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
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
MDSB905Enroll
75%
Authorizing researchers affiliated with certain 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; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to r...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1037Enroll
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...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
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