Maryland Senator Joanne Benson [D]

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MDSB379Intro
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Repealing the examination requirements for bachelor and master social worker licenses; and altering the number of consumer members on the State Board of Social Work Examiners.
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2025-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB346Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
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2025-01-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB130Intro
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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...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB161Intro
25%
Requiring, for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2032, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill certain appropriations to the State Department of Education for the Coalition for Public Safety Training in Schools, Inc., in Prince George's Cou...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB174Intro
25%
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB58Intro
25%
Requiring certain employers to provide certain employees with at least 12 hours of parental school engagement leave each school year to attend meetings and conferences relating to the schooling of the employee's child; and requiring the State Superin...
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2025-01-14
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB39Intro
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Authorizing an individual serving a term of confinement to petition a court to modify or reduce the sentence under certain circumstances; providing that a certain petitioner is entitled to assistance of counsel and, if indigent, representation by the...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB75Intro
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Requiring the juvenile court to order certain probation for a child found to have committed certain delinquent acts or adjudicated to be a child in need of supervision because of habitual truancy; requiring probation of a child adjudged delinquent fo...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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