| MD | SB59 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 |
| MD | HB398 | Pass | Authorizing the Prince George's County Council to impose an excise tax on certain telecommunications service in Prince George's County in addition to, or instead of, a sales and use tax; altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 970 |
| MD | SB362 | Pass | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| MD | HB396 | Pass | Altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of certain revenue from the sales and use tax on energy and fuel in Prince George's County by allowing the revenue to be used to meet certain education funding requirements for the county; and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 969 |
| MD | SB170 | Pass | Requiring county boards of education to post certain hearing notices and bid advertisements on the websites of certain local school systems; increasing the threshold amount of costs of school buildings, improvements, supplies, and equipment that requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 275 |
| MD | HB200 | Pass | Altering certain requirements for community schools and community school coordinators; requiring the Director of Community Schools to create a common needs assessment tool and an evaluation form; requiring a community school coordinator to complete a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229 |
| MD | SB161 | Pass | Altering certain requirements for community schools and community school coordinators; requiring the Director of Community Schools to create a common needs assessment tool and an evaluation form; requiring a community school coordinator to complete a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 230 |
| MD | HB291 | Pass | Requiring county boards of education to post on the websites of certain local school systems hearing notices related to preliminary approval of a school site and advertisements for bids for school buildings, improvements, supplies, or equipment that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| MD | HB472 | Pass | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| MD | SB540 | Pass | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school in the county, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 |
| MD | SB500 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | SB581 | Pass | Altering the State and local cost-share formula for the Public School Construction Program for the Maryland School for the Blind to set the State share at 100%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 |
| MD | HB838 | Pass | Establishing the Prince George's County Family Child Care Home Expansion Grant Program in the Prince George's County public school system; providing that the purpose of the Program is to increase the number of registered family child care providers, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 373 |
| MD | HB902 | Pass | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 |
| MD | SB882 | Pass | Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 184 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | SB1026 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt a process for the uniform and timely reporting of certain county board of education budget information to a county governing body; requiring a county board to post certain budget information on the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| MD | HB1115 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt a process for the uniform and timely reporting of certain county board of education budget information to a county governing body; requiring a county board to post certain budget information on the coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | HB1139 | Pass | Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 |
| MD | HB1082 | Pass | Requiring for each fiscal year each county board of education to provide $150,000 for the salary and benefits of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future implementation coordinator in the county; and requiring the implementation coordinator's salary and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| MD | HB1195 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education and Maryland Department of Health to develop guidelines to reduce the risk of exposure to anaphylactic major food allergens in child care settings; requiring the State Department of Education to create a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 |
| MD | HB1426 | Pass | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; requiring the State Board to approve certain specifications for teachers and admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164 |
| MD | HB1441 | Pass | Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for funding to lease space for prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder; requiring the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| MD | HB1390 | Pass | Establishing that the State share of eligible costs for certain school construction projects that meet certain criteria is 100%; repealing the provision of law that would have repealed the School Safety Grant Program on June 30, 2026; reducing the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| MD | HB1440 | Pass | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| MD | HB662 | Pass | Requiring that certain regulations governing the registration and operation of large family child care homes and the licensing and operation of child care centers require that child care teachers be at least 18 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 |
| MD | HB760 | Pass | Requiring each local school system, on or before November 1 of the third year of a 6-year audit cycle, to submit a report to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee on the status of implementation of corrective actions to address repeat findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| MD | SB21 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to conduct a comprehensive study analyzing the current condition of public high school athletic and physical education facilities in the State and to report to the Governor and the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Foster Care Families Child Care Assistance Program in the State Department of Education to provide child care assistance through subsidies and scholarships to eligible foster care families; requiring the Department to establish a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1381 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board regarding conflicts between a decision or policy of the Board and another entity responsible for implementing an element of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1403 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the age of children in family child care homes and large family child care homes, from under the age of 2 years to under the age of 15 months, under which certain limitations on the number of children in care and certain adult to child ratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain definitions relating to student enrollment that are generally used for the calculation of funding for general education programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to waive the filing fee for certain annual reports for the first year that certain business entities are in existence; requiring that 25% of the fees collected be credited to the Child Care S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1432 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1317 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide certain positi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring a failing school to retain the failing school designation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
