| 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 | SB310 | Intro 25% | Altering the requirements of the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to increase pupil awareness of the relationship between gambling and youth suicide. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB644 | Intro 25% | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB430 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB511 | 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] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB517 | Intro 25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB569 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to operate certain schools within the county using a school scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days if the minimum 1,080-hour requirement is met. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm] 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] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Intro 25% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB435 | Intro 25% | Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB468 | Intro 25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | SB588 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and va... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 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 | SB712 | Intro 25% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member, that may be a princip... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB772 | Intro 25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to include a son, daughter, or stepchild or surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who is or was eligible for the Chapter 35 Dependent Education Ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB714 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] 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] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 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 | SB819 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 7 @ 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 | 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] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB814 | Intro 25% | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Governor and General Assembly on the amount and use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB843 | Intro 25% | Adding an adjustment for the local cost-share for school construction projects for certain counties under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Intro 25% | Establishing a minimum wage of $25.00 to be paid by county boards of education to certain education support professionals beginning July 1, 2025; adjusting the minimum wage for education support professionals for inflation each year; and defining "ed... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB988 | Intro 25% | Providing that a general license to practice dental hygiene authorizes the licensee to practice dental hygiene under the general supervision of a dentist in a school or school-based health center; establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Ch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB916 | Intro 25% | Requiring that certain curriculum guides and courses of study established by county boards of education be aligned with certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; requiring the State Department of Education to develop ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB923 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements for local school systems that issue invitations for bids for high school sports officiating services for boys' and girls' high school sports; authorizing the Department of Education to develop guidelines to assist a local sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB662 | Intro 25% | Requiring a memorandum of understanding between a certain licensee and a community association within a certain bounded area in the 46th alcoholic beverages district before the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City may issue a license in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB801 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Dorchester County to issue an alcoholic beverages license to an establishment that is within 300 feet of a place of worship or school with the written consent of the place of worship or school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB828 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at certain sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt policies consistent with the guidelines or provide cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB769 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB534 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB600 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Baltimore City, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a stop sign is subject to a citation and a certain civil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB623 | Intro 25% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB149 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |