State Department of Education - Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System [HB-1237]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System; requiring the Task Force to consider the effectiveness, functionality and usability of the Maryland Online Individualized Education Program and the Maryland Online Individualized Family Service Plan and make recommendations to maintain and upgrade the system or to replace it with another platform; and requiring the Task Force to report its recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by June 1, 2025.
HB-1237: State Department of Education - Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus R Kipke
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2024
Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established [HB-1157]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Program and to take certain actions to develop and implement the Program; establishing the eligibility for certain teacher candidates in the Program and requiring teacher candidates to be paid a certain rate and offered certain benefits under the Program; etc.
HB-1157: Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle K. Wilkins
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 228 on 04/25/2024
Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program – Permanent Establishment [HB-1139]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
HB-1139: Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program – Permanent Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Scott Solomon
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 183 on 04/25/2024
Education - Blind and Visually Impaired Students - Textbook Equity [HB-1076]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year for students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide the materials in a specialized format to blind or visually impaired students; requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, certain textbook publishers to provide an electronic file of pupil edition textbooks; etc.
HB-1076: Education - Blind and Visually Impaired Students - Textbook Equity
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 749 on 05/16/2024
State Department of Education - Division of Rehabilitation Services - Funding [HB-1163]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Education ]
[Human Services ]
Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Division of Rehabilitation Services in the State Department of Education to ensure the State match amount for the Division is met as required by certain federal acts.
HB-1163: State Department of Education - Division of Rehabilitation Services - Funding
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Atterbeary
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 168 on 04/25/2024
Green Schools - Model Professional Development Facilities - Designation [HB-997]
[Environmental ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Department of Education and in consultation with other relevant parties, to establish criteria for designating green schools in the State as model professional development facilities; requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to use a fiscal year 2026 appropriation of $5,000 to update its recertification application on or before September 1, 2025; etc.
HB-997: Green Schools - Model Professional Development Facilities - Designation
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark S. Chang
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products, and Electronic Smoking Devices - Revisions (Tobacco Retail Modernization Act of 2024) [SB-1056]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain licensed retailers to verify an individual's date of birth before selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices in a certain manner; altering the application fee for a county license to sell cigarettes or tobacco products at retail; etc.
SB-1056: Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products, and Electronic Smoking Devices - Revisions (Tobacco Retail Modernization Act of 2024)
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Fred Kramer
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 462 on 05/09/2024
Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity [SB-1091]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year by students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide instructional materials in a specialized format to blind or visually impaired students; requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, certain textbook publishers to provide an electronic file of pupil edition textbooks to a certain entity; etc.
SB-1091: Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 750 on 05/16/2024
Public Schools – Restorative Practices Schools – Establishment [SB-917]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan to implement requirements for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; and requiring the Department to annually report to the General Assembly on the implementation of Restorative Practices Schools beginning December 1, 2026.
SB-917: Public Schools – Restorative Practices Schools – Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2024
Education - Curriculum Standards - Antihate and Holocaust Education (Educate to Stop the Hate Act) [SB-1058]
[Education ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain funds from county boards that fail to do so; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
SB-1058: Education - Curriculum Standards - Antihate and Holocaust Education (Educate to Stop the Hate Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Hearing Canceled on 03/27/2024
Focusing Federal Career and Technical Education Act Funds on Blueprint School-to-Work Apprenticeship Goals Act [SB-1035]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
Requiring the State Board of Education to collaborate with the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Committee to develop and jointly approve a plan for career and technical education in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act; requiring the CTE Committee, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to review a certain proposal of the Department; requiring the CTE Committee to review the allocation of funds received under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act;
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SB-1035: Focusing Federal Career and Technical Education Act Funds on Blueprint School-to-Work Apprenticeship Goals Act
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled (ways And Means) on 03/27/2024
Division of Children and Youth - Student Truancy From School - Unit, Policies, and Report [SJR-4]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Encouraging the State Department of Education to add a section or unit dedicated to addressing student truancy from school to further the purposes and goals of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future; and requiring the Division of Children and Youth in the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to develop certain strategies relating to student truancy from school.
SJR-4: Division of Children and Youth - Student Truancy From School - Unit, Policies, and Report
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill P Carter
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
Education – Blueprint for Maryland’s Future – Alterations [SB-1102]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and submit an independent evaluation to December 1, 2026; requiring a nonclassroom teacher who pursues National Board Certification to receive certain funding from the State under certain circumstances; altering requirements for the Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Program; etc.
SB-1102: Education – Blueprint for Maryland’s Future – Alterations
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 3/27 At 1:30 P.m. (ways And Means) And Hearing Canceled (appropriations) on 03/27/2024
Education – Prekindergarten and Withholding of County Board Funding (Blueprint Accountability and Flexibility Act of 2024) [SB-1062]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State Department of Education to exclude by annual waiver Tier I children who are 4 years old from a certain prekindergarten slot calculation; establishing a process for the Accountability and Implementation Board to withhold certain funding from a county board under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-1062: Education – Prekindergarten and Withholding of County Board Funding (Blueprint Accountability and Flexibility Act of 2024)
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/08/2024
Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines and Pilot Program [SB-979]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to support the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council; requiring the Department to develop certain strategies to coordinate and assist county boards to provide certain recommendations for integrating artificial intelligence into certain college and career readiness standards; etc.
SB-979: Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines and Pilot Program
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2024
Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established [SB-937]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Program and to take certain actions to develop and implement the Program; establishing the eligibility for certain teacher candidates in the Program and requiring teacher candidates to be paid a certain rate and offered certain benefits under the Program; etc.
SB-937: Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program - Established
Sponsored by: Sen. Malcolm L. Augustine
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 227 on 04/25/2024
Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program – Permanent Establishment [SB-882]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Education ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
SB-882: Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program – Permanent Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 184 on 04/25/2024
State Department of Education - Division of Rehabilitation Services - Funding [SB-859]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Education ]
[Human Services ]
Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Division of Rehabilitation Services in the State Department of Education to ensure the State match amount for the Division is met as required by certain federal acts.
SB-859: State Department of Education - Division of Rehabilitation Services - Funding
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy J Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 169 on 04/25/2024