| SB20 sent to House |
Vehicle Laws -
School Buses and Former School Buses - Seat Belts |
| Simonaire |
Clarifying
that a Type I school vehicle is not required to be equipped with seat belts
or subject to specified regulations if it is used by specified schools,
camps, day nurseries, or day care centers to transport children; and
establishing that a motor vehicle that was formerly registered as a Type I
school vehicle is not required to be equipped with seat belts or subject to
specified regulations under specified circumstances. First Reading Judicial
Proceedings 1/9 Hearing 1/22 Favorable with Amendments Report by
Judicial Proceedings 2/4 Favorable
with Amendments Report Adopted Second Reading Passed with Amendments 2/5
Third Reading Passed (43-0) SENT TO HOUSE First Reading
Environmental Matters |
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| SB23 |
Teenage Protection
Pilot Program |
| Simonaire,Greenip |
Requiring
specified facilities performing abortions to offer specified options to
specified patients; requiring specified facilities to provide a specified
"Teenage Informational Form"; providing for the information to be
included on the form; requiring the form to be maintained in the medical
record of the patient for a specified time period; providing for a specified
penalty; providing that the Act applies in Anne Arundel County; providing for
the termination of the Act; etc. First Reading Finance 1/9
Hearing 3/5 |
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| SB50 SENT TO HOUSE |
Education - Special
Education Services - Children in a Home School Setting |
| Brochin |
Requiring
that a child with a disability in a home school setting be given the same
consideration as a child with a disability in a private school setting for
the purpose of passing through federal funds for the provision of specified
federally authorized special education services; and defining "child in
a home school setting". First Reading Education Health and Environmental
Affairs 1/11 bill text not yet
available Hearing 1/23 Favorable Report by Education Health and
Environmental AffairsFavorable Report Adopted Second Reading Passed 2/6 Third Reading Passed (45-0) SENT TO HOUSE First Reading Ways and
Means
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NOTE introduced last year as SB116 Brochin and Kittleman- passed in Senate
32-0 Died in the House |
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| SB77 see HB
169sent to hosue |
Education - Children
in Informal Kinship Care Relationships |
| Kelley, Colburn, Conway, Della, Exum, Madaleno, McFadden,
Pinsky, Pugh, Raskin, Rosapepe, and Stone |
Requiring
a superintendent of schools of a county to allow a child to attend a public
school in a school attendance area other than the school in the school
attendance area where the child is domiciled with the child's parent or legal
guardian if the child lives with a relative in the school attendance area in
an informal kinship care relationship due to a serious family hardship;
etc. First Reading Education Health
and Environmental Affairs 1/14 Hearing
1/23 Favorable Report by Education
Health and Environmental Affairs
Favorable Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed Third
Reading Passed (45-0) SENT TO
HOUSE First Reading Ways and Means
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| SB78 see HB 389 |
Task
Force to Study System Variables That Impact Student Achievement in
Underperforming Public Schools |
| Kelley, Colburn, Conway, Currie, Exum, McFadden, Muse, Pugh,
Raskin, Rosapepe, and Stone |
Establishing
the Task Force to Study System Variables That Impact Student Achievement in
Underperforming Public Schools; providing for the membership, purposes, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from
receiving compensation but entitling members to reimbursement for expenses
under the Standard State Travel Regulations in the State budget; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 1/14
Hearing 1/23 |
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| SB92 see HB310 |
Elective Franchise -
Youth Voter Registration and Participation in Elections |
| Raskin, Frosh, Kelley, King, Kittleman, Kramer, Lenett,
Madaleno, Muse, Peters, Pinsky, Pugh, Robey, Simonaire, Stoltzfus, and Zirkin |
Authorizing
specified citizens who are less than 18 years old to register to vote;
authorizing specified citizens who are less than 18 years old to vote in
specified primary or special elections under specified circumstances; making
stylistic changes; and submitting the amendment to the qualified voters of
the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs First reading 1/16 Hearing 2/14
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| SB 96 see HB 285 |
Education
- Truancy Rates - Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Programs and
Behavior Modification Programs |
| Pugh, Conway, Currie, Della, Forehand, Gladden, Klausmeier,
Madaleno, McFadden, Peters, and Stone
Sent to HOUSE |
Requiring
a county board of education to require a school that has a truancy rate that
exceeds specified standards to implement a positive behavioral interventions
and support program or an alternative, research-based, positive, and
effective behavior modification program in collaboration with the State
Department of Education; etc.First Reading Education Health and Environmental
Affairs 1/16 Hearing 2/5 Favorable with Amendments Report by
Education Health and Environmental Affairs Favorable with Amendments Report
Adopted Second Reading Passed with
Amendments Third Reading Passed
(46-1) Sent to
House First
Reading Ways and Means
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| SB167
WITHDRAWN |
Education - Teacher
Certification - National Organization Standards |
| Greenip and Colburn |
Expanding
the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards to include teachers who pursue certification
or renewal by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence;
renaming the Program to be the State and Local Aid Program for Certification
by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or the American
Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence; updating Program
qualifications; etc. First Reading
Education Health and Environmental Affairs 1/18 Hearing 2/5 WITHDRAWN |
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| SB201 SENT TO HOUSE |
Elective Franchise -
Voting by 17-Year-Old Citizens |
| Dyson |
Authorizing
specified citizens who are less than 18 years old to vote in specified
elections under specified circumstances; making stylistic changes; and
submitting the amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for
their adoption or rejection.First Reading Education Health and Environmental
Affairs First Reading 1/18 Hearing
2/14 Favorable with Amendments
Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Favorable with Amendments Report
Adopted Second Reading Passed with
Amendments Third Reading Passed (46-0)
SENT TO HOUSE First Reading
Ways and Means
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| SB229
UNFAVORABLE |
Education - Classroom
Instruction Expenditures - Required Funding |
| Greenip, Colburn, and Mooney |
Requiring
a county board of education to spend revenues in accordance with specified
requirements; requiring each county board to spend a specified percentage of
total operating expenditures on direct classroom expenditures beginning in
fiscal year 2010; requiring a county board to increase direct classroom
expenditures by a specified percentage over a specified period of time until
the county board reaches the required percentage if the county board is
spending less than the required percentage; etc. Hearing 2/13 |
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| SB 230
UNFAVORABLE |
Public School
Collective Bargaining Sunshine Act |
| Greenip, Colburn, Harris, and Mooney |
Requiring
that written collective bargaining agreements be made available to the public
by county boards of education within 10 days following approval of the
agreement; requiring the county boards to submit the agreements to the State
Board of Education; requiring the State Board to store the agreements in a
repository; and requiring the State Board to make the agreements available to
the public.First Reading Finance 1/23
Hearing 2/21 |
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| SB231 |
Public Schools -
Certified Teachers - Flagging Investigative Proceedings |
| Jacobs, Brinkley, Colburn, Forehand, Glassman, Haines, Kelley,
Kittleman, Klausmeier, Kramer, Middleton, Munson, Muse, Simonaire, Stoltzfus,
and Stone |
Requiring
a county superintendent to send a written notice to the State Superintendent
of Schools that an investigative proceeding involving a complaint has been
initiated against a certified teacher if the complaint alleges specified
crimes; requiring that a specified notice be sent within a specified number
of days and include specified information; requiring the State Superintendent
to place immediately a warning flag on a certified teacher's file under
specified circumstances; etc. First
Reading Judicial Proceedings
1/23 Hearing 2/20 |
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| SB238 see HB75 |
Juveniles - Arrests
for Reportable Offenses - Expansion of Notification |
| Stone, Astle, DeGrange, Della, Forehand, Haines, Harris, Jacobs,
Klausmeier, Madaleno, and Muse |
Expanding
provisions relating to the required notification to a local public school
superintendent of the arrest of a public school student for a reportable
offense to apply to the notification to a specified nonpublic school official
of the arrest of a nonpublic school student for a reportable offense; and
providing for the confidentiality of information obtained by the nonpublic
school official. First Reading
Judicial Proceedings 1/23 Hearing
2/19 Favorable with Amendments Report
by Judicial Proceedings Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted Second
Reading Passed with Amendments Third Reading Passed (47-0) NO house action yet |
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| SB264 |
High School Dropouts
- Alternative Education Programs and GED Requirements |
| Pugh, Conway, Currie, Della, Garagiola, Glassman, Kasemeyer,
Lenett, Madaleno, McFadden, Rosapepe, and Stone |
Requiring
representatives of local boards of education to provide information
concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and
testing locations to specified individuals; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 1/24 Hearing 2/13 |
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| SB267 UNFAVORABLE |
Income Tax -
Subtraction Modification - Public School Volunteer Aides |
| Simonaire, Edwards, Glassman, Haines, Jacobs, and Kittleman |
Providing
a subtraction modification under the State income tax for qualifying
volunteer aides; requiring a county superintendent of schools or the
superintendent's designee to provide a statement of certification to a
volunteer aide who volunteers a specified number of hours; requiring the
State Board of Education to create and provide a specified form; applying the
Act to tax years after 2007; etc.Hearing 2/6 |
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| SB283 |
Legislative
Scholarships - Public Announcements and Acknowledgements by Legislator -
Prohibition |
| Kittleman |
Prohibiting,
subject to a specified exception, a legislator from making specified
announcements and participating in specified activities relating to the award
of a legislative scholarship.First Reading Education Health and Environmental
Affairs 1/25 Hearing 2/26 |
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| SB428 |
Education - Military
Recruiters - Student Contact Information - Opportunity to Opt Out |
| Pinsky, Raskin, Conway, Della, King, Lenett, and Madaleno |
Requiring
public schools to provide notice to specified students or the parents or
guardians of the students about the right not to release student contact
information to military recruiters; requiring public schools to include the
notice in a specified format, size, and type on the card requesting emergency
contact information for the student; requesting the student or the parent or
guardian of the student to indicate whether the student's contact information
is to be released to military recruiters; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 1/31 Hearing
2/21 Favorable Report by Education
Health and Environmental Affairs
Favorable Report Adopted Second
Reading Passed
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| SB436 |
Education - Age of
Compulsory Attendance - Exemptions |
| Pugh, McFadden, Conway, Currie, Forehand, Garagiola, Glassman,
Jones, Kasemeyer, Kelley, King, Lenett, Madaleno, Muse, Peters, Raskin, and
Robey |
Requiring
children 5 years old or older and under 18 to attend a public school
regularly during the entire school year, subject to specified exceptions
including being severely ill, being married, being in military service, and
attending an alternative educational program; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 1/31 Hearing 3/5 |
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| SB447 |
Education - High
School Diploma - GED Options Program |
| Pugh, Conway, Currie, Forehand, Jones, King, Lenett, Madaleno,
McFadden, Peters, and Raskin |
Requiring
the State Board of Education to establish a GED Options Program that provides
specified students with an alternative course for obtaining a high school
diploma beginning on August 1, 2009; providing for specified Program
requirements; requiring students enrolled in the GED Options Program to be
counted in the average daily attendance of a local school system; and
requiring the State Board to adopt specified regulations. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 1/31 Hearing 3/5 |
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| SB473 See HB536 |
Public Schools -
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System - Passive Parental Consent |
| Garagiola, Forehand, Lenett, Madaleno, Pinsky, Pugh, and Robey |
Requiring
the State Department of Education to require local school systems to utilize
passive parental consent before administering a specified survey; requiring
local school systems to provide parents with specified statements and forms;
etc. First Reading Education Health
and Environmental Affairs 2/1 Hearing
2/26 |
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| SB519 |
Education
- Student Who Is a Victim of Violent Crime - Option to Require Offender to
Change Schools |
| Stone and Miller |
Requiring
the State Board of Education to adopt specified policies; requiring a local
superintendent to provide specified notice to a student who is the victim of
specified crimes or acts committed by another student upon a specified
conviction or finding; requiring a local superintendent to transfer a
specified student upon a specified determination; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 2/1 Hearing 2/26
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| SB533 |
Task Force to Study
How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State |
| Muse, Frosh, Garagiola, Jones, McFadden, Peters, Pugh, and
Raskin |
Creating
a Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State;
requiring the Task Force to study the ability of consumers to understand
basic financial concepts and the problems created by a lack of financial
literacy or knowledge; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations
regarding how to overcome specified problems and the utility of requiring
financial literacy education as part of primary and secondary education;
etc. First Reading Education Health
and Environmental Affairs 2/1 Hearing 2/26 Favorable with Amendments Report by
Education Health and Environmental Affairs Favorable with Amendments Report
Adopted Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
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| SB582 See HB139 |
Education - Multiple
Suspensions |
| Jones, Exum, McFadden, and Pugh |
Requiring
principals to report suspensions of specified students in writing to county
superintendents within specified periods of time; requiring principals to
refer specified students to pupil services teams and give notice to specified
students and specified parents or guardians that pupil services teams must
meet within a specified period of time; requiring notice to be provided in
specified languages or specified modes of communication; etc. First Reading Education Health and
Environmental Affairs 2/1 Hearing 2/26 |
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| SB714
UNFAVORABLE |
State Board of
Education - Development of Curriculum Content - Financial Literacy |
| Klausmeier, Brochin, Colburn, Currie, Rosapepe, and Stone |
Requiring
the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a
semester-long course in financial literacy; requiring the curriculum content
to include instruction in choosing a career, earning an income, saving and
investing money, credit, and budgeting; requiring each county board of
education to implement the curriculum content in every high school in the
county; requiring students to complete a course in financial literacy in
order to graduate; etc. First Reading
Education Health and Environmental Affairs
2/1 Hearing 2/26 Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
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| SB787 |
Education - High
School Assessment Requirement |
| Muse |
Prohibiting
the State Board of Education from including the passing of statewide,
mandatory, curriculum-based examinations or assessments in public high school
graduation requirements; etc. First
Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs 2/5
Hearing 3/11 |
| SB813 |
Education -
Scholarship Program for Children with a Disability |
| Pipkin |
Establishing
a Scholarship Program for Children with a Disability to attend a private
noncollegiate educational institution; authorizing parents or legal guardians
to enroll a child with a disability in an eligible private institution and
use scholarship funds to offset costs relating to the attendance of the child
with a disability at the eligible private institution; providing for the
administration of funds for the program; establishing the amount of a
scholarship; etc. First Reading Senate
Rules 2/7 Re-referred Education Health and
Environmental Affairs Hearing 3/11 |
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| SB824 |
Education - Alcohol
and Drug Testing for Pupils in Public or Private Schools |
| Conway |
Requiring
specified public school and private or parochial school officials to
implement a policy of alcohol and drug testing, under specified conditions,
for high school pupils; specifying that the testing is permitted only on the
basis of a reasonable suspicion of unlawful use; requiring school officials
to provide notice to specified persons of the alcohol and drug testing
policy, to maintain specified test results as confidential medical records,
and to grant access to the records only to specified persons; etc. First Reading Senate Rules 2/8
Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs Hearing 3/11 |
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| SB849 See HB1411 |
Fitness and Athletics
Equity for Students with Disabilities Act |
| Rosapepe |
Requiring
county school systems to ensure the participation of students with
disabilities in specified physical education and athletic programs; requiring
county school systems to provide specified accommodations; requiring county
school systems to develop specified programs, policies, and procedures;
requiring county school systems to provide opportunities meeting specified
criteria to students; etc. First
Reading Senate Rules 2/11 Hearing
3/11 Re-referred Education Health and
Environmental Affairs |
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| SB850 |
Education -
Collective Bargaining - Public School Labor Relations Board |
| Pugh, Brochin, Della, Dyson, Exum, King, Klausmeier, Lenett,
Madaleno, McFadden, Peters, Pinsky, Raskin, Robey, Rosapepe, and Stone |
Establishing
a Public School Labor Relations Board; providing for the appointment,
membership, duties, responsibilities, and staff of the Board; authorizing the
Board to adopt and enforce regulations, guidelines, and policies, as
specified; permitting the Board to petition a circuit court to seek
enforcement of an order of the Board; providing that a hearing and
determination under the Act is a contested case; specifying requirements and
procedures for the use of mediation, fact-finding, and arbitration in dispute
resolution; etc. First Reading Senate
Rules 2/11 |
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| SB933 See HB519 |
Public High Schools -
Graduation Requirements - Weighted Numerical Assessment System |
| Harrington, Exum, and Muse |
Requiring
the State Board of Education to establish a weighted numerical assessment
system to calculate a total score that students are required to achieve to
graduate from a public high school in the State; requiring the weighted
numerical assessment system to include specified categories; requiring that
the weighted values of specified categories may not be outside specified
ranges of specified percentage values of a specified total score; etc First Reading Senate Rules 2.21
Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
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| SB955 |
Brian Moore Student
Health and Fitness Act of Maryland |
| Harrington |
Requiring
that public school students in kindergarten through a specified grade be
provided specified minimum levels of a program of physical activity each
week; requiring that the program of physical activity for a specified
category of student be consistent with a specified plan for the student;
requiring students in public high schools to complete a specified amount of
physical education in order to graduate; etc.First Reading Senate
RulesRe-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
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