| MD | SB68 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Motion Laid Over (Senator A. Washington) Adopted |
| MD | SB429 | 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB350 | 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1385 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1391 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, and the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education to develop or update certain guidance and strategies on artificial intelligence for county...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1447 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program; requiring local school sy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB773 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; and altering the content required to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public schools to develop and implement a system to track and report injury incidents, whether intentional or accidental, to a student, teacher, or school employee on the school campus during the school year; and establishing certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Retirement Agency, on or before December 15, 2025, to report to the General Assembly certain information pertaining to the fiscal impact on employer contribution rates in the Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems from certain t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1388 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Deferred Retirement Option Program for certain members of the Employees' Pension System and the Teachers' Pension System; and requiring the State Retirement Agency to seek a certain determination letter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students and the associated funding; requiring county boards of education to report on per-school funding for certain programs associated with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1303 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education to set minimal experiential standards as qualifications for child care teachers that require a child care teacher to hold a high school diploma or equivalent, have successfully completed certain courses for cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1430 | Intro
25% | Altering certain salary increases for teachers on the career ladder to be annual stipends paid only in certain years; authorizing county boards of education to award a certain stipend to certain teachers on the career ladder based on a certain certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1461 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1462 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB482 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB673 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB791 | Intro
25% | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60 to 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB847 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB852 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students and the associated funding; requiring county boards of education to report on per-school funding for certain programs associated with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB906 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education and the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education, to develop or update guidance on artificial intelligence for county boards of education; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; and establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB732 | Intro
25% | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60% to 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB888 | Intro
25% | Altering the qualifications for an initial teacher certificate to include passing a portfolio-based assessment of a nationally accredited teacher preparation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB750 | Intro
25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for faculty and contingent, contractual, or temporary faculty; and authorizing the bargaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB912 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain institutions of higher education to provide instructors with certain training on institutional obligations toward students with disabilities under certain federal laws; and requiring the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB941 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB795 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB661 | Intro
25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for faculty and contingent, contractual, or temporary faculty; and authorizing the bargaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB29 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB605 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to implement an automatic enrollment arrangement for State employees who are hired on or after January 1, 2026; and requiring an eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations 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
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB118 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB197 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB200 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to be the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans; and providing that the Board of Trustees of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB166 | Intro
25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants and postdoctoral associates at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland; and establishing separate collective bargaining units for the gradu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB270 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to implement an automatic enrollment arrangement for State employees who are hired on or after January 1, 2026; and requiring an eligible...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB144 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to be the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans; and providing that the Board of Trustees of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB71 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Holocaust Education Assistance Grant Program in the State Department of Education to assist local school systems with Holocaust education in public schools; authorizing a local school system to apply to the Department for a grant fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
