Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Eligible Prekindergarten Provider Data Dashboard [HB-1530]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the State Department of Education to maintain on its website a data dashboard with certain information regarding certain eligible prekindergarten providers in the State; requiring the Department to partner with a nonprofit organization that has experience in maintaining a data dashboard for child care providers; and requiring the Department to establish a process that allows an eligible prekindergarten provider to opt out of being included in the data dashboard.
HB-1530: Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Eligible Prekindergarten Provider Data Dashboard
Sponsored by: Rep. Aletheia McCaskill
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/24/2025
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [HB-1461]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
HB-1461: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. April Fleming Miller
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
State Board of Education - Online Special Education System - Technical Requirements [HB-1383]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations concerning minimum functional and technical requirements to ensure optimal performance of the State's online special education system, including the Maryland Online Individualized Education Program and the Maryland Online Individualized Family Service Plan.
HB-1383: State Board of Education - Online Special Education System - Technical Requirements
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing Canceled on 04/02/2025
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [HB-1245]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[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.
HB-1245: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Greg Wims
Hearing Canceled (appropriations) on 03/05/2025
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.
HB-1204: Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Elopement - Notice and Reporting Requirements (Ace's Law)
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 339 on 05/06/2025
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.
SB-852: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/05/2025
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.
SB-714: Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
Education - Dependent Children of Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures [SB-601]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Military ]
Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a certain child with a disability and the school district in a certain sending state to prevent a delay in transferring the child; requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to publish information on the advance enrollment procedures established by the Act; etc.
SB-601: Education - Dependent Children of Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Third Reading Passed (135-0) on 04/07/2025
County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement [SB-602]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child with a disability enrolled by the parent or guardian of the child in a private elementary or secondary school or facility, including a religious school or facility.
SB-602: County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 543 on 05/13/2025
County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement [HB-702]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child with a disability enrolled by the parent or guardian of the child in a private elementary or secondary school or facility, including a religious school or facility.
HB-702: County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan McComas
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 544 on 05/13/2025
Education - Dependent Children of Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures [HB-596]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Military ]
Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service member or other parent or guardian of a dependent child with a disability to note whether the child has an individualized education program or a 504 plan in the sending state; and requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to publish information on advance enrollment.
HB-596: Education - Dependent Children of Service Members - Advance Enrollment Procedures
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Referred Education, Energy, And The Environment on 03/12/2025
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.
SB-429: Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/02/2025
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.
HB-504: Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 05/06/2025
Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication [HB-488]
[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.
HB-488: Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025