| 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB298 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to collect certain data regarding the parental status of students from each public institution of higher education in the State using questions developed by the Commission and the institutions; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB307 | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB586 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local board of elections to pay an election judge compensation for completing a certain course of instruction only after the election judge actually serves an election day or early voting day; and authorizing a public school student in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB603 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB840 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1114 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Walter Sondheim Jr. Public Service Internship Scholarship Program to be the Public Service Internship Scholarship Program; adding services in transportation and other fields within State or local government to the list of certain criteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1403 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1032 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning with the general election in 2026, the districts from which certain members of the Wicomico County Board of Education are elected; adding a student member to the county board from the 11th or 12th grade in good standing and regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1524 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning with the general election in 2026, the districts from which certain members of the Wicomico County Board of Education are elected; adding a student member from the 11th or 12th grade in good standing and regularly enrolled in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB68 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-19
To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB552 | Intro
25% | Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education or the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB574 | Intro
25% | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission; and requiring the Commission to study the salaries of the Members of the Howard County Board of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB879 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB704 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB755 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to consider students who are in informal kinship care relationships as independent for the purpose of qualifying for certain student financial assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB783 | Intro
25% | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB821 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to grant certain students temporary admission to schools for a specified time frame if the parent or guardian of a student is unable to provide proof of immunization under certain circumstances; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB8 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB207 | Engross
50% | Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB184 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB774 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2027, to include in the annual budget bill a $225,000 appropriation for the Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program; requiring public institutions of higher education and regional higher education centers to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations 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 | SB879 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB689 | Intro
25% | 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 additional pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB688 | Intro
25% | Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB702 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB725 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB772 | Intro
25% | Directing county boards of education to provide certain funding to local workforce development boards to support the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; and altering a certain reporting requirement of local workforce develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB771 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the State to submit a certain certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; requiring the Maryland Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
25% | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an out-of-state licensed professional counselor to provide clinical professional counseling services to nonresident students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB62 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force on Education Funding and Student Population Growth to analyze the challenges related to the delay in student enrollment counts and its effect on school funding and the connection between growing student populations and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB156 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB386 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB408 | 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; authorizing a youth soccer nonprofit organization to submit a grant prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB526 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students, who are ineligible for transportation services, may use to travel to school using only safe alt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
