| MD | HB785 | Pass | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 129 |
| 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certain school construction projects that meet certain criteria is 100%; repealing the provision of law that would have repealed the School Safety Grant Program on June 30, 2026; reducing the ap...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 | SB1077 | Pass | Authorizing local school systems to use certain funds for school security employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| MD | HB1167 | Pass | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293 |
| 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 | SB1042 | Pass | Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to mil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| MD | SB122 | Pass | Altering the requirement that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by instead requiring that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 |
| MD | HB284 | Pass | Altering the requirement that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by instead requiring that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 |
| MD | SB366 | Pass | Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offset... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 67 |
| 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 | HB1211 | Pass | Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offset... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 66 |
| MD | SB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education, a nonpublic school, or a contracting agency that has contracted with a virtual tutoring service to require the virtual tutoring service to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Patterson and Fair) |
| MD | HB1354 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing public schools to designate Veterans' Day as a public school holiday. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1090 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1485 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in kindergarten through grade 12; requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB84 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school and college students and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring a sponsor particpating in a teac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB78 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission to publish the names of the candidates for appointment to the Baltimore County Board of Education on the Commission's website before interviewing the candidates; requiring meetings of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | SB762 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1058 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1189 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB167 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to post on the main page of its website a link to the voter registration webpage maintained on the website of the State Board of Elections or the local board of elections of that county and a certain statement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1415 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to submit a report on community schools to the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2024; and requiring the Department to submit a report summarizing the reports received from county boards t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB1394 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law relating to funding and grants to transition to zero-emission vehicle school buses to include propane-powered school buses; and authorizing a county board of education, beginning in fiscal year 2030, to enter into a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| 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 | HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in certain schools in Prince George's County a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to require the curriculum for family life and human sexuality instruction in Prince George's County schools begin no later than grade 6, provide age-appropriate instruction, include certain medi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB1442 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Fiscal and Operational Viability of Public-Private Partnerships for Howard County Public Schools to study the use of public-private partnerships to reduce or increase the speed of school construction, the poten... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Montgomery County Public Schools to require training for school personnel on the prevention of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of religious discrimination. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1493 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |