Discipline

State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions [SB-854] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Children and Youth ]
Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed direct-entry midwives report certain information to the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; altering the disciplinary actions that may be taken against a licensed direct-entry midwife or an applicant for a license; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young Approved By The Governor - Chapter 644 on 05/20/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law - Restrictions on Access to Information (Maryland Data Privacy Act) [SB-977] [Immigration ] [Data Privacy ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ]
Prohibiting a certain person in possession of certain data, information, and records from sharing or otherwise making the data, information, and records available under certain circumstances; altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases, facilities, or buildings by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certain circumstances; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam Hearing Canceled on 03/26/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Schools – Student Fights – School Investigation and Discipline [SB-783] [Education ] [Children and Youth ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
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 protect the student or to escape the attack; and requiring a principal or school administration to expunge certain documentation from a student's disciplinary record under certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Police Discipline - Administrative Charging Committees - Additional Charging Committee [HB-985] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing the local governing body of a county to authorize the use of a second administrative charging committee if the local governing body determines that one administrative charging committee is insufficient to serve the countywide law enforcement agencies and local law enforcement agencies within the county.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Crutchfield Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication [SB-714] [Education ] [Data Privacy ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ]
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 each year; and requiring the Department to maintain a certain risk ratio and State comparison threshold used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices and report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact [HB-959] [Education ] [Healthcare ] [Mental Health ] [Children and Youth ]
Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact Commission; providing for the withdrawal from the Compact; and providing the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in seven other states.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Bernice Mireku-North Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Education - Maryland STEM Program - Established [SB-673] [Education ] [Funding ] [Budget and Spending ] [Science ]
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 the Program; requiring local school systems to inform current teachers about the Program; requiring participating nonpublic schools to report certain information to the Department each year; requiring the Governor to include a $250,000 appropriation in the annual budget bill; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman Favorable With Amendments Report By Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/07/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) [HB-773] [Education ] [Children and Youth ] [Public Safety ]
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 taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions [HB-776] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Law Enforcement ]
Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; altering certain licensure requirements; altering the grounds for discipline for physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; authorizing the Board to impose a civil penalty for a certain report made in bad faith; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser Approved By The Governor - Chapter 676 on 05/20/2025

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions [HB-838] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Children and Youth ]
Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed direct-entry midwives report certain information to the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; altering the disciplinary actions that may be taken against a licensed direct-entry midwife or an applicant for a license; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke Approved By The Governor - Chapter 645 on 05/20/2025

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State (Arizona)
Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

Noncertificated school personnel; disciplinary action [SB-1292] [Education ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Children and Youth ]
Noncertificated school personnel; disciplinary action

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Catherine Miranda House Ed Committee Action: Do Pass, Voting: (12-0-0-0-0-0) on 03/25/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Safety - Law Enforcement - Quotas (Community-Oriented Policing Act) [HB-687] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Criminal Justice ]
Altering a prohibition against using the number of arrests made, investigations conducted, citations issued, or warrants served or executed by a law enforcement officer as a criterion for the evaluation, compensation, discipline, promotion, demotion, dismissal, or transfer of the officer; and prohibiting law enforcement agencies from requiring, suggesting, requesting, or directing an officer to act for the purpose of increasing the number of investigations, warrants served or executed, or citations or arrests delivered.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Disciplinary Actions [HB-664] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ]
Clarifying that the State Board of Nursing may deny a license or grant a license, including a license subject to a reprimand, probation, or suspension, if an applicant for a license to practice direct-entry midwifery or a licensed direct-entry midwife violates a ground for discipline.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Terrasa Approved By The Governor - Chapter 392 on 05/06/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) [SB-482] [Education ] [Children and Youth ] [Public Safety ]
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 taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence [HB-635] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Crime ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 01/27/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

County Boards of Education - Student Cellular Phone Use Policy - Establishment (Maryland Phone-Free Schools Act) [HB-630] [Education ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Children and Youth ] [Public Health ]
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use of a cellular phone for any purpose documented in the student's individualized education program, to monitor or address a student's documented health issue, during an emergency event, or when directed by an educator or administrator for educational purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

County Boards of Education - Root Causes of Chronic Absenteeism and Expulsion - Investigation and Reporting [HB-523] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
Requiring each county board of education to investigate, identify, and report on root causes of chronic absenteeism and expulsion in the county; and requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, and each quarter thereafter for 10 years, each county board to report its findings to each applicable county delegation to the General Assembly and certain committees in the General Assembly.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Health Occupations - State Board of Chiropractic Examiners - Revisions [HB-514] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ]
Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses to applicants; authorizing the Board to inspect chiropractor offices under certain circumstances; and requiring the Board to require a licensee or applicant to submit to an examination by a health care provider under certain circumstances.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser Approved By The Governor - Chapter 21 on 04/08/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [SB-429] [Education ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Funding ] [Budget and Spending ] [Children and Youth ] [Economic Development ]
Altering the definitions of "target per pupil foundation amount", "collaborative time per pupil amount", "compensatory education per pupil amount", "English learner per pupil amount", "special education per pupil amount", "growth in the target per pupil foundation amount", and "change in the per pupil amount"; 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; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/02/2025

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [HB-504] [Education ] [Taxes ] [Funding ] [Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring local school systems to develop certain countywide community school implementation plans; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 05/06/2025

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