Bills Pending Maryland Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee

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MDSB401Intro
25%
Requiring a utility owner to submit to the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority, within 60 days after completion, certain information pertaining to the installation or relocation of facilities, infrastructure, or app...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB566Intro
25%
Authorizing a county board of education to authorize a certain employee to transport a public school student in a vehicle if the driver meets certain requirements; and requiring, on or before December 31, 2024, the Career and Technical Education Comm...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB312Intro
25%
Establishing that certain records of elected officials are not personnel records for the purposes of inspection under the Public Information Act; and establishing that certain records of the State Ethics Commission and Joint Committee on Legislative ...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB499Intro
25%
Establishing the School Psychologist Recruitment Program within the State Department of Education to provide professional development programs and aid for a certification fee to school psychologists and individuals seeking to become school psychologi...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB56Intro
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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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB334Intro
25%
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 ...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB455Intro
25%
Prohibiting a county board from charging fees to certain students related to enrollment in or completion of The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program or a comparable program consisting of Advanced Placement courses specified by the College Boar...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB545Intro
25%
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for all public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB512Intro
25%
Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB146Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB200Intro
25%
Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requ...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB523Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB515Intro
25%
Altering, from 16 years old to 15 years and 9 months old, the age at which an individual may register to vote.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB433Intro
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, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB426Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB364Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from willfully or knowingly casting a ballot in a general election in more than one state in the same year.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB381Intro
25%
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB386Intro
25%
Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB572Intro
25%
Requiring a water utility operating in the State to post on its website or provide to the Department of the Environment documents, data, and information required as part of the water utility's annual water quality consumer confidence report; requirin...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB356Intro
25%
Requiring local jurisdictions to establish and implement an expedited development review process for certain proposed affordable housing developments; applying the process to a charitable organization seeking to develop affordable housing on its own ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB12Intro
25%
Increasing the membership of the Board of Trustees of the College of Southern Maryland by two members, from 9 to 11; and requiring the two additional members of the Board of Trustees to be residents of Charles County.
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB127Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, in collaboration with in collaboration with public safety agencies, the State Department of Education, local school systems, the University System of Maryland, and other public institutions of higher e...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB81Intro
25%
Altering the information shown in the budget of the College of Southern Maryland; requiring certain county commissioners to review and approve the budget of the resident campus in certain counties; and authorizing the Board of Trustees of the College...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB5Intro
25%
Requiring the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland to develop admission policies that require the institutions to admit as freshmen applicants who graduate from a public or nonpublic high school i...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB61Intro
25%
Prohibiting an institution of higher education from using an admissions application that contains questions about an applicant's disciplinary record, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing an institution of higher education to make inquiries ...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB140Intro
25%
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, ...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB294Intro
25%
Altering the definitions of "information technology" and "major information technology development project" for the purpose of certain provisions of law governing information processing and security; requiring a unit of State government to submit cer...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB311Intro
25%
Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making qualified nonprofit organizations that operate a farm or community garden that is on at least 250 acres, grows between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of produce...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB249Intro
25%
Altering the composition of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee; and requiring the Committee to monitor the management of certain dredged material, provide input and feedback to the Maryland Port Administration regarding the management of cert...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB278Intro
25%
Altering and establishing renewal and reinstatement processes for horse establishment licenses; establishing certain duties and administrative penalties with respect to beekeeping activities; altering the administrative penalty structure for certain ...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB304Intro
25%
Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer an...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB193Intro
25%
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB152Intro
25%
Exempting residents who are eligible for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or Medicaid from the annual fee for a...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB293Intro
25%
Altering the quorum threshold for the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service; authorizing the Secretary of the Board to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after r...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB306Intro
25%
Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB112Intro
25%
Requiring county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular phone during instructional time unless a teacher expressly directs the student to use a cellular phone for educational purposes; and exem...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB189Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop content standards for inclusive and diverse English language arts to be included in certain State standards for English language arts by December 1, 2025; requiring each county board of education to d...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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