| MD | HB593 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a prominent area accessible to employees and library users, provide maintenance for the automated external defibrillator, and ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means 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 | HB597 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB580 | Intro
25% | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Health and Government Operations 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 | HB639 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a sports venue and the governing body of an institution of higher education that operates a sports venue to allow an individual attending a sporting event at the sports venue to bring and use a reusable beverage con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters 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 | HB627 | Intro
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...
[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 | 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 | HB611 | Intro
25% | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students, by July 1, 2026, to prominently display on its publicly accessible prospective student website a link to the U.S. Department of Education Colle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Intro
25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for no less than 5 years, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations 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 | HB638 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person who has been adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a certain sexual offense to register as a juvenile sex offender; requiring a juvenile registrant to remain on the juvenile sex offender...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB607 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal Grant Program to provide grants to certain individuals with the goal of becoming a real estate appraiser in certain communities; providing the purpose of the Program is to assist in clo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB540 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to update, by March 1, 2027, and maintain a certain website; requiring the Association to conduct certain outreach efforts with a certain frequency; requiring the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro
25% | Specifying eligibility for the Child Care Scholarship Program, including that a child shall reside in the State, be under a certain age, and be in a household that meets certain need and income requirements; and prohibiting the State Department of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB536 | 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
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB523 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to investigate, identify, and report on root causes of chronic absenteeism and expulsion in the county; and requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, and each quarter thereafter for 10 years, each county board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB526 | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB531 | Intro
25% | Requiring all public institutions of higher education to establish remote learning accommodations for students with disabilities that impede regular, in-person attendance beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year; authorizing the Maryland Higher Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB498 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB543 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a certain policy requiring certain public schools to disclose a student's directory information or personally identifiable information to a detoxification center or hospital for substance abuse tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB524 | Intro
25% | Increasing the membership of the State Board of Education from 13 to 14 members to include, as a member, an early childhood development professional with extensive experience in the operations of a child care business and early childhood curriculum a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB504 | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB551 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB552 | Intro
25% | Requiring each institution of higher education to provide certain drug detection products to students at no charge; and altering a certain reporting requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB456 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain statute of limitations in certain civil actions relating to child nonsexual abuse and neglect; establishing a limitation of $1,500,000 on noneconomic damages that may be awarded under the Act; providing that a certain party may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB479 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain nonpublic institutions of higher education to submit a certain letter of intent regarding intended new graduate level programs to the Maryland Higher Education Commission in a certain manner and every 6 months; and repealing a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB473 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB478 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a Hagerstown Community College police officer to exercise powers granted to a peace and police officer within Washington County under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB495 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB488 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB458 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, beginning in fiscal year 2027, an appropriation of $350,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park Campus TerpsEXCEED (EXperiencing College through Education and Employment Discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
