| MD | SB29 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB137 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain individuals honorably discharged from military service to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from a full-time public or private high school to enlist in the armed forces of the United States during an armed co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB113 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing that the initial term of the principal member of the State Board begins July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular device during instructional time during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from preventing a student from using a cellula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB294 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Common Ownership Communities to study the education and training needs of common ownership community boards and new and prospective owners of homes and dwelling units in common ownership communities; and requiring the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB293 | Intro
25% | Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB283 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a county board of education, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, from charging students with financial need exam fees related to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, the Cambridge AICE Diploma Program, or a program consist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB310 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirements of the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to increase pupil awareness of the relationship between gambling and youth suicide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB307 | Intro
25% | Increasing the scholarship award for a student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who completes a full term on the county board from $8,000 to $15,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB350 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB386 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "reportable offense" to remove the requirement that the offense occurred off school premises and did not occur at an event sponsored by the school; and requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the local su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB368 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB429 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB451 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the language of their choice; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB456 | Intro
25% | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment; and requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to submit a report, by December 1, 2025, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB587 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain individuals honorably discharged from military service to obtain a high school diploma if the individuals withdrew from a full-time public or private high school to enlist in the armed forces of the United States during an armed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB583 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a virtual school; encouraging a county board that is unable to offer a virtual school on its own to collaborate with one or more other county boards to jointly establish a school; requiring that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB600 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing education to apply to all uniformed services, rather than o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB596 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB630 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB608 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to grant certain students temporary admission to schools for a certain time frame if the parent or guardian of a student is unable to provide proof of immunization under certain circumstances; and requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB609 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of a reportable offense to include only references to offenses defined as crimes of violence in relation to reporting arrests of students attending public and nonpublic schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB612 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Lifesaver Schools Program to recognize public schools that provide health and safety training to students and school personnel; establishing requirements and prohibitions for Lifesaver Schools; authorizing a public school to partner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB468 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB482 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB588 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to notify of a certain student's arrest a local superintendent of schools or school principal of a school in which the student has enrolled or to which the student has been transferred; and requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB621 | Intro
25% | 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 a political subdivision of the State to deny the person's ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SJ3 | Intro
25% | Affirming Maryland's commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as a foundation of the American Dream; and encouraging certain individuals and groups to adopt and uphold DEI principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB602 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB597 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB583 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB588 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB129 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing that the initial term of the principal member of the State Board begins July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB384 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities to refer eligible individuals to certain training entities, provide additional funding mechanisms to assist eligible individuals, and encourage participants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB402 | Intro
25% | Increasing the scholarship award for a student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who completes a full term on the county board from $8,000 to $15,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB391 | Intro
25% | Requiring that members of county boards of education from Calvert, Cecil, Garrett, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester counties that represent certain districts be elected only by the voters of that district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB420 | Intro
25% | Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB358 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Soccer Opportunities Program in the State Department of Education to increase opportunities for minority students to participate in soccer in their communities; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fisc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB369 | Intro
25% | Altering the process by which the County Superintendent of the Prince George's County public school system is selected; requiring that the County Superintendent be selected by a majority of the members of the county board from among the candidates co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB370 | Intro
25% | Specifying the purpose of the Office of Integrity and Compliance in the Prince George's County public school system; requiring the County Executive of Prince George's County, rather than the County Council, to select and appoint an Integrity and Comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB379 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide, at no charge to the students, drink spiking detection products and drug detection strips to public middle and high school students in the county beginning in the 2025-2026 school yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB415 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB477 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 4 to 5 the number of children under the age of 2 years that are authorized to be in care in a family child care home; and altering certain ratios for adults to children of certain ages in family child care homes and child care centers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB457 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local school system to provide information regarding certain secondary transition services to the parents of a child with a disability at certain individualized education program meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB423 | Intro
25% | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
