| MD | SB378 | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB753 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Comptroller to conduct a study and report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before June 1, 2026, on the feasibility of a State baby bond account program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1057 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Human Services to review and reallocate a portion of the Department of Human Services' annual budget to be used to provide child care stipends to certain private treatment foster care homes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1480 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the standards established by the Maryland Statewide Organization for Child Advocacy Centers require an individual providing medical or mental health services in a child advocacy center to be licensed or certified and provide services w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1429 | Intro
25% | Authorizing youth services bureaus to request a criminal history records check from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository for employees, volunteers, and interns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1530 | Intro
25% | Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Eligible Prekindergarten Provider Data Dashboard
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB770 | Intro
25% | Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB950 | Intro
25% | Expanding the circumstances under which a report or record concerning child abuse or neglect may be disclosed by the Department of Human Services to include the administrator of a certain child care center, the coach, team administrator, or manager o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB880 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to include $5,000,000 in the annual budget bill each fiscal year to the Governor's Office for Children to provide certain grants for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1209 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB809 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB862 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding obstacles and barriers to child care affordability in the State; requiring the Commission to consider certain economic measures to support working famili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1492 | Intro
25% | Increasing the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to $900,000 for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB359 | Engross
50% | Altering the fiscal years from 2023 through 2025, and for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB516 | Intro
25% | Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to grant, by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB610 | Intro
25% | Increasing the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to $900,000 for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB452 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding child care affordability in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1105 | Intro
25% | Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1121 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Increasing the maximum number of members of the Office of Child Care Advisory Council from 30 to 31; and adding a representative of the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators to the membership of the Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1313 | Intro
25% | Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB687 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB851 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB857 | Intro
25% | Altering the use of Prekindergarten Expansion Grants to add slots for additional children and not supplant child care slots for infants and toddlers; requiring applications for the grant to use certain terminology and be accompanied by certain instru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB765 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB833 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Human Services to review and reallocate a portion of the Department of Human Services' annual budget to be used to provide child care stipends to certain private treatment foster care homes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB400 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is an immediate and serious risk of dangerous or disruptive behavior; prohibiting transportation companies that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to require certain public high schools in the county to offer a certain CTE program in early childhood education; requiring the county board of education to establish child care centers in certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB408 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Prince George's County Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB497 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is an immediate and serious risk of dangerous or disruptive behavior; prohibiting transportation companies that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB95 | Intro
25% | Requiring each unit of State or local government responsible for the construction and maintenance of a playground to ensure that the playground is constructed and maintained in accordance with certain safety standards; and requiring a unit of State o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB389 | Intro
25% | Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to grant, by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB5 | Intro
25% | Defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child pornography.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB185 | Intro
25% | Altering the fiscal years to include fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
