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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Maryland Parole Commission - Members and Hearing Examiners [HB-1156]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering the number of members of the Maryland Parole Commission from 10 to at least 15 but not more than 20 members; altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners; and repealing the authority of the Commission to appoint and utilize hearing examiners.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Phillips
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2025
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Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law) [HB-1204]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission; requiring certain schools and individualized education program teams to review and address with relevant stakeholders certain behavior in updating a student's individualized education program or behavior intervention plan; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 339 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Injury Incidents - Requirements for Tracking and Reporting [HB-1194]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 certain reporting requirements for county boards of education, the Juvenile Services Education Program Superintendent, and the State Department of Education regarding certain injury incidents in schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nino Mangione
Hearing Canceled (ways And Means) on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Primary and Secondary Schools - Alternative School Options (Right to Learn Act) [HB-1180]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring that a failing school continue to be designated as a failing school until certain conditions are met; requiring that a student who is attending a failing school be provided the opportunity to attend an alternative school; establishing the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven J. Arentz
Hearing 3/03 At 11:00 A.m. on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Applicants for Positions Involving Direct Contact With Minors - Required Information, Review Process, and Reporting - Alterations [HB-1105]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to certain boundary-violating behavior; requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to follow certain procedures when hiring certain applicants; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Edith Jerry Patterson
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Office of Child Care Advisory Council - Membership - Alterations [HB-1122]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Libraries ]
[Human Services ]
Increasing the maximum number of members of the Office of Child Care Advisory Council from 30 to 31; and adding a representative of the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators to the membership of the Council.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 376 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program - Established [SB-868]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualified substitute child care providers are available to fill short-term staffing needs of child care facilities on a temporary basis; requiring the Department for fiscal years 2027 through 2030, to award a grant of $350,000 to the nonprofit organization selected to administer the Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Individuals With Disabilities - Main Entrance Accessibility and Emergency Planning [SB-851]
[Disabilities ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 accessible for individuals with disabilities and not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; requiring each local school system to send a copy of the local school system's emergency plan to the State Department of Education; requiring a certain report to the General Assembly; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Craig Zucker
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Child Care - Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Modifications and Workgroup [SB-857]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
Altering the use of Prekindergarten Expansion Grants to add slots for additional children and not supplant child care slots for infants and toddlers; requiring applications for the grant to use certain terminology and be accompanied by certain instructions; requiring the State Department of Education to establish a multiyear grant award process; requiring the Department to convene a workgroup to explore and make recommendations on opportunities to incentivize growth in certain child care providers with slots for infants and toddlers; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Student Technology and Social Media Resource Guide [SB-897]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning in the 2027-2028 school year with additional information included in successive years; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year 2027 and $125,000 for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 in the annual budget bill; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Norris Love
Favorable With Amendments Report By Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines, Professional Development, and Task Force [SB-906]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
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; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to develop and update annually a list of approved artificial intelligence tools; requiring each county board to conduct an annual inventory of systems that employ artificial intelligence; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Curriculum Standards - Requirements (Educate to Stop the Hate Act) [SB-916]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
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 certain content standards; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Fred Kramer
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [SB-852]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 certain manner; providing a waiver from the minimum funding per school requirement for schools with 350 or fewer total students; altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly funded prekindergarten to include certain children; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Education Agencies - Educator Screening - Educator Identification Clearinghouse (School Personnel Vetting and Hiring Transparency Act) [SB-845]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to register each local education agency in the State as an associate member of a national organization to utilize the Educator Identification Clearinghouse for screening individuals who apply to be educators; and requiring each local education agency in the State to utilize the Educator Identification Clearinghouse to screen each individual who applies for an educator position with the local school system on or after July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Favorable With Amendments Report By Ways And Means on 03/26/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Middle, High, and Charter Schools - Start Time for Instruction [HB-1015]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 circumstances; and requiring each county board of education and each public charter school to implement a certain public service campaign to raise awareness on sleep deprivation and later school start times.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Department of Education and Department of Information Technology - Evaluation on Artificial Intelligence in Public Schools [HB-981]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
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 systems that use artificial intelligence to assist with student learning; requiring the Department of Information Technology to assist the State Department of Education in performing its review; and requiring the Department to issue a final report on the results of the evaluation by December 15, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Board of Education - Membership - Educational Support and Administrator Members [HB-923]
[Education ]
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 principal, an assistant principal, or any other administrative level professional who is actively working in a public school; and providing for the qualifications, terms, powers, and elections of the new members.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Hearing Canceled on 02/12/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prekindergarten - 3-Year-Olds - Private Providers (Parental Choice for Prekindergarten Act) [SB-780]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 publicly provided prekindergarten; requiring an eligible private provider that elects to enroll a Tier I 3-year-old to enter into a certain memorandum of understanding with the State Department of Education and the county board of education; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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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 T. Brooks
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Board of Education – Membership – Educational Support and Administrator Members [SB-712]
[Education ]
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 principal, an assistant principal, or any other administrative level; and providing for the qualifications, terms, powers, and elections of the new members.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025