| 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] | 2025-01-31 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB780 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly provided prekindergarten to not include 3-year-olds and only include certain 4-year-olds; authorizing an eligible private prekindergarten provider to elect to enroll 3-year-olds in pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-01-30 To House Ways and Means 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 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means 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 | HB524 | Intro 25% | Increasing the membership of the State Board of Education from 13 to 14 members to include, as a member, an early childhood development professional with extensive experience in the operations of a child care business and early childhood curriculum a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro 25% | Specifying eligibility for the Child Care Scholarship Program, including that a child shall reside in the State, be under a certain age, and be in a household that meets certain need and income requirements; and prohibiting the State Department of Ed... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB462 | Intro 25% | Increasing the membership of the State Board of Education from 13 to 14 to include an early childhood development professional as a member; requiring the early childhood development professional to have extensive experience in the operations of a chi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB380 | Intro 25% | Repealing the prohibition on and criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives and contraceptive devices by means of a vending machine or other automatic device at a kindergarten, nursery school, or elementary or secondary school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17 [Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary 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 |