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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements [HB-945]
[Education ]
Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; authorizing a local school system to establish a comprehensive induction program to aid in meeting a certain requirement for initial teacher certification; altering the qualification requirements for a teacher who holds a professional license or certificate from another state; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 188 on 04/25/2024
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Education - Local Share of Major Education Aid - Nonrecurring Costs Exclusion [SB-803]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrecurring costs; and requiring the State Department of Education to submit a certain report to certain county governing bodies under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2024
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Primary and Secondary Students - Vision and Hearing Studies and Evaluations [HB-893]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on vision support treatments and services for students; requiring the workgroup to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 31, 2025; and requiring the Maryland State School Health Council to evaluate certain issues regarding vision and hearing difficulties in primary and secondary students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
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Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication [HB-890]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
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; requiring the Department to maintain a risk ratio and State comparison threshold of 2.0 to be used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices; and requiring the Department to report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel I Rosenberg
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Safety - Missing Persons - Purple Alert Program [SB-817]
[Public Safety ]
[Disabilities ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing a Purple Alert Program to disseminate information to assist in locating a missing person who has a cognitive impairment, mental disorder, intellectual or developmental disability, or brain injury or who is deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or late-deafened and who does not meet the criteria for activation of a Silver Alert; and authorizing the Department of State Police to consult with relevant stakeholders representing citizens with disabilities to develop regulations and procedures to carry out the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/08/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Minimum School Funding - Waiver [SB-856]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/07/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
State Department of Education - Study on Transfer and Awarding of Advanced Placement Course Credits and Military Students [HB-923]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with county boards of education and county superintendents of schools, to conduct a study on the transfer and awarding of credits by local school systems to in the State for successful completion of an AP course by a military student while enrolled in a high school in another state; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations on or before July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael J. Griffith
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established [HB-903]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 171 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education – Local Share of Major Education Aid – Nonrecurring Costs Exclusion [HB-909]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrecurring costs; and requiring the State Department of Education to submit a certain report to certain county governing bodies under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Hinebaugh
Hearing Canceled on 02/27/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Requirements [SB-771]
[Education ]
Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; authorizing a local school system to establish a comprehensive induction program to aid in meeting a certain requirement for initial teacher certification; and altering the qualification requirements for a teacher who holds a professional license or certificate from another state.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 187 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established [SB-797]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 170 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - School Safety and Student Well-Being - Examination of Policies and Funding [SB-756]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Department of Education, and the Interagency Commission on School Construction by July 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, to review and promulgate guidelines on the state of physical security in schools; altering the amount and uses of annual funding relating to school safety; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $20,000,000 to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems to enhance school safety; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/08/2024
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Prince George's County Family Child Care Home Expansion Grant Program - Establishment PG 505-24 [HB-838]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Establishing the Prince George's County Family Child Care Home Expansion Grant Program in the Prince George's County public school system; providing that the purpose of the Program is to increase the number of registered family child care providers, registered family child care homes, and registered large family child care homes in low-income communities in the county; requiring a local school system to develop a certain application process; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 373 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Reform [SB-744]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to include certain programs in a certain plan; requiring the State Board of Victim Services to include certain information about filing a certain complaint in a certain pamphlet; repealing certain provisions relating to the State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Public School Employees - Salaries [HB-789]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/31/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Prince George’s County – Income Tax – Credit for Employers Providing Parental Engagement Leave PG 412–24 [HB-818]
[Taxes ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; requiring a certain qualified employee to obtain the signatures of a certain county board member and certain school personnel under certain circumstances; and making the credit refundable under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/06/2024
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Prince George's County - Income Tax - Credit for Employers Providing Parental Engagement Leave [SB-721]
[Taxes ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; requiring a certain qualified employee to obtain the signatures of a certain county board member and certain school personnel under certain circumstances; and making the credit refundable under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Hearing 2/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/01/2024
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Juvenile Law - Reform [HB-814]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain provisions relating to the taking of a child into custody by a law enforcement officer; expanding certain provisions of law relating to the entry onto certain school or other property by, and the education of, certain sex offender registrants; altering certain provisions relating to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Clippinger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 735 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland Trails Advisory Committee and the Maryland Office of Trails - Establishment (Great Maryland Trails Act) [SB-645]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Recreation ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and collect certain information regarding trails; establishing a Director of the Maryland Office of Trails to oversee the Office and collaborate with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Trails Advisory Commission; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sarah K. Elfreth
Hearing 2/16 At 9:00 A.m. on 02/09/2024
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Education - Public Middle Schools - Instructive Program on Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction [HB-730]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction in a short period of time; and providing for the method of administering the instructive program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Hearing 4/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2024