| MD | SB187 | Pass | Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to submit a certain timeline of deliverables for the planning, design, and construction of the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 876 |
| MD | HB1434 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and maintain a caregiver resource webpage with information and resources to support certain caregivers in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 873 |
| MD | HB102 | Pass | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of an active service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| MD | SB48 | Pass | Clarifying the type of proposals and plans that require the approval of the State Superintendent of Schools; requiring a county board of education to request and receive approval from the State Superintendent before a county board may proceed with ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 |
| MD | HB57 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program for public high school students that exhibit civic readiness and engagement; requiring a certain capstone project be included in the Program; authorizing a local school system to participate in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| MD | HB168 | Pass | Authorizing a county board of education to consider the provision of educator workforce housing as a school purpose under certain provisions of law; altering the eligible recipients of certain financial assistance and the housing innovation projects ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 |
| MD | SB204 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program that recognizes the civic readiness and civic engagement of public high school students in the State; requiring that a certain capstone project be included in the Program; authorizing a local school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 677 |
| MD | SB238 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | HB311 | Pass | Requiring each local school system to identify, in its regular safety evaluation, issues of accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and requiring local school systems to include in a certain annual report instances in which a public school f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 |
| MD | HB325 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board by removing a member who is chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Association of Independent Schools and increasing the number of members chosen from lists pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| MD | HB326 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to develop and administer an anonymous reporting system to receive information related to a school or student safety concern; requiring the Center to develop operational guidelines and procedures, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| MD | SB263 | Pass | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of an active service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| MD | HB340 | Pass | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 |
| MD | HB359 | Pass | Altering eligibility for a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on certain urban agricultural property; and requiring a county or municipal corporation that grants the tax credit to provide notice of the termina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | SB311 | Pass | Extending the time period during which a certain method is used to calculate compensatory education enrollment through fiscal year 2028; repealing a termination date for the use of funds under the Concentration of Poverty Grant Program for the purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 602 |
| MD | HB396 | Pass | Repealing the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support; requiring operators of certain residential child care programs to provide certain educational opportunities to the children for whom th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| MD | HB546 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to make available a professional development course on educator well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2027; and requiring the Department to make the course a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 758 |
| MD | SB378 | Pass | Renaming the Young Readers Matching Grant Program to be the Young Readers Grant Program; altering the purpose and application requirements of the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| MD | SB402 | Pass | Repealing the maximum age for children in certain residential child care programs who receive educational support; requiring operators of certain residential child care programs to provide certain educational opportunities to the children for whom th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 641 |
| MD | HB623 | Pass | Altering the definition of "military-connected student" under the Purple Star Schools Program to conform with certain terms defined under State law; and establishing the Purple Star Colleges Program to recognize certain colleges that provide strong s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| MD | HB742 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $450,000 in the annual budget bill for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2028 through 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 699 |
| MD | SB507 | Pass | Requiring each local school system to identify, in its regular safety evaluation, issues of accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and requiring local school systems to include in a certain confidential annual report instances in which a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 |
| MD | SB503 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $450,000 in the annual budget bill for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2028 through 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 |
| MD | SB509 | Pass | Implementing the federal Workforce Pell Grant Program in the State through which Pell Grants may be awarded to students enrolled in a certain short-term program; requiring the Governor, after consultation with certain entities, to determine whether t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 724 |
| MD | HB828 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to appoint as a member of the State Board of Education an individual who is an employee of a county board of education, under certain circumstances; altering the number of members required to affirmatively vote for the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| MD | HB748 | Pass | Adding new pathways to the early childhood career ladder for eligible private prekindergarten providers that allow educators to meet certain experiential and educational qualifications within certain periods of time; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 618 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Specifying the intern fellowships that exist in the Walter Sondheim Jr. Public Service Internship Scholarship Program; increasing the maximum scholarship award amount under the Program from $5,000 to $6,000; and requiring the Governor, beginning in f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 780 |
| MD | SB573 | Pass | Requiring each member of a board of directors or officer of a council of unit owners of a condominium in Charles County and each member of a governing body of a homeowners association in Charles County to successfully complete a certain training curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 804 |
| MD | SB597 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Partnership in the University System of Maryland to provide a single nexus for certain stakeholders in artificial intelligence initiatives to advance artificial intelligence in the State; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 |
| MD | SB685 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a model sexual abuse and sexual misconduct response policy that includes, at minimum, a communications plan, an e-mail and other electronic communication documents retention policy, a requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | SB709 | Pass | Altering the definition of "military-connected student" under the Purple Star Schools Program to conform with certain terms defined under State law; and establishing the Purple Star Colleges Program to recognize certain colleges that provide strong s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| MD | SB776 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children to research the history, operations, and resident deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children and provide a complete and public a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 607 |
| MD | SB720 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to provide certain guidance on artificial intelligence to local school systems, educators, parents, and students through an online platform; requiring the Department to develop certain guidelines, best prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634 |
| MD | HB1305 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to include certain additional information in an annual report submitted to the General Assembly regarding children and foster youth in the State child welfare system; and requiring the State Department of E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 |
| MD | HB1582 | Pass | Altering the school quality indicators authorized for an educational accountability program in public schools; and prohibiting the use of certain indicators in an educational accountability system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593 |
| MD | HB866 | Pass | Extending the deadline for the report of findings and recommendations from the Workgroup for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing from June 1, 2025, to December 1, 2028; and extending the termination date for the Workgroup from June 30, 2026, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| MD | SB6 | Pass | Providing collective bargaining rights to nontenure track faculty of system institutions of higher education, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland whose primary assignments involve academic instruction, including teachers, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695 |
| MD | HB525 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, by the 2027-2028 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day; and prohibiting the policy from res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | SB215 | Pass | Altering the application of certain provisions of law governing local government personnel, trout stamps, and landlord remedies to apply to all uniformed services; and altering the composition of the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | HB327 | Pass | Altering the number of members on the Board of Community College Trustees for Baltimore County; and altering the membership of the Board to reflect the change in Baltimore County councilmanic districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| MD | SB306 | Pass | Altering from 15 to 11 the number of members on the Board of Community College Trustees for Baltimore County; and altering the membership of the Board to reflect the change in Baltimore County councilmanic districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 |
| MD | HB661 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the month of January as Muslim American Heritage month and the month of May as Jewish American Heritage month; and requiring the proclamations to urge certain organizations to observe the months with certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| MD | HB856 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local school system in the State as an associate member of a certain national membership organization; and requiring each local school system in the State to utilize the Educator Identifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | SB648 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local school system in the State as an associate member of a certain national membership organization; and requiring each local school system in the State to utilize the Educator Identifica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| MD | SB70 | Pass | Establishing the MDiplomaWorks pathway as an alternative method of earning a high school diploma in the State; establishing the Program as a method to recognize and certify high school diploma achievement through demonstrated academic and career comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 168 |
| MD | HB297 | Pass | Establishing the MDiplomaWorks pathway as an alternative method of earning a high school diploma in the State; providing the MDiplomaWorks pathway is a method to recognize and certify high school diploma achievement through demonstrated academic and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 |
| MD | HB358 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for a sale made at a book fair by an elementary or secondary school or a nonprofit parent-teacher organization or other nonprofit organization within an elementary or secondary school at an in-person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 186 |
| MD | SB403 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for a sale made at a book fair by an elementary or secondary school or a nonprofit parent-teacher organization or other nonprofit organization within an elementary or secondary school at a book fair, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| MD | SB423 | Pass | Prohibiting a research facility or a testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes; prohibiting a research facility or testing facility from performing devocalization procedures on dogs or cats; prohibiting a test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 230 |
| MD | HB972 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund to provide grants that advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 163 |
