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

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MDHB1354Engross

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Authorizing public schools to designate Veterans' Day as a public school holiday.
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2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1188Engross

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Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund to be the Information Technology Investment Fund; requiring a certai...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1141Engross

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Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1187Intro

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Authorizing the Governor to suspend State or local law if necessary for the restoration, repair, or replacement of critical infrastructure related to a declared state of emergency for not more than 1 year after the state of emergency is declared; aut...
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2024-03-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB641Engross

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Requiring each local board of elections, at least 6 months prior to each statewide primary election, to designate an outside location for curbside voting, subject to the approval of the State Board; requiring a local board to take into account certai...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1420Engross

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Authorizing the Office of People's Counsel to retain or hire experts in the field of cybersecurity; requiring certain public service companies to engage with a third party to conduct an assessment that analyzes certain critical software; requiring ce...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB568Engross

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Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 8th as Community Health Worker Appreciation Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe community health workers with informative programs and activitie...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB566Engross

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Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB993Engross

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Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge residents of all ages to participate in educational activities that promote awareness of climate change and...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1264Engross

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Altering the conditions under which a person is exempt from obtaining a permit from the Department of the Environment to construct or repair a reservoir, dam, or waterway obstruction.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB961Engross

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Establishing the Commission on New Americans to study and periodically report on the contributions of new Americans and the availability of government services for new Americans; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General ...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1161Intro

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Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1318Engross

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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...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB173Engross

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Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1112Engross

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Establishing that a person that applies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity in response to a certain order is eligible for an expedited review process of the application; requiring the Public Service Commission to give priority to t...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB245Engross

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Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB620Engross

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Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB558Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB627Engross

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Altering the definitions of "automatic voter registration agency" and "applicable transaction" for the purpose of designating the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as an automatic voter registration agency and requiring the Depart...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1189Engross

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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...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB730Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1254Engross

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Requiring certain individuals to submit to a criminal history records check before the individual is authorized to have a position involving direct contact with children in a licensed child care center, registered family child care home, or registere...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB331Engross

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Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1237Engross

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Establishing the Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System; requiring the Task Force to consider the effectiveness, functionality and usability of the Maryland Online Individualized Education Program and the Maryland Online Ind...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1164Engross

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Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB167Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1297Engross

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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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB448Engross

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Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January 13 as Korean American Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge certain organizations to observe Korean American Day properly.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1161Engross

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Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB180Engross

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Authorizing the State Board of Cosmetology to issue a limited license to provide eyelash extension services; altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include providing eyelash extension services; and requiring an applicant for a limi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1174Engross

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Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its activities and recommendations to the Governor and t...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB393Engross

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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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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1257Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB347Engross

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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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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB771Engross

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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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB24Engross

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Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB155Engross

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Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses in the State engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to us...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1140Engross

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Requiring a virtual tutoring service that contracts with a county board of education, including the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, or a nonpublic school to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtual tuto...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB473Engross

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Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB679Engross

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Providing that an applicant for registration to provide security systems services may provide security system services and have access to circumventional information if the applicant applied for registration, received an application number confirming...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB239Engross

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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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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB993Intro

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Requiring the Office of the Inspector General of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to complete a review of a certain facility within 60 days after receiving confirmation that the construction of the facility is complete; requiring the Washi...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB615Engross

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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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2024-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB208Engross

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Prohibiting a county public library from charging a fine for overdue library materials borrowed by a minor or intended for children or teens; prohibiting a county public library from charging a reserve fee for library materials reserved by a minor or...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB234Engross

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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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2024-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB129Intro

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Requiring that each member of the State Board of Elections receive a stipend as provided in the State budget; requiring the State Administrator of Elections or the procurement officer for the State Board to disclose requests for proposals, invitation...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB918Intro

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Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB493Intro

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Requiring that, in the 2028 statewide primary election, each contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States be conducted using ranked-choice voting; and requiring the State Board of Ele...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB695Intro

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Requiring the construction of new multifamily residential buildings with separate garages, carports, or driveways for each residential unit to include certain parking spaces for electric vehicle charging; requiring certain significant renovations of ...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1023Intro

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Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before certain dates and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all water and space heating demands of the building without the use of f...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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