MABE’s Education Bill Highlights
February 6, 2014
Number / Chapter
(Cross File / Chapter)
Total: 51
HB0001
(SB0064)
Title
Primary Sponsor
Children in Need of
Assistance Educational Stability
Chair, Judiciary
Committee
HB0015
Public School
Facilities Security
Improvements
Program
Delegate
McDermott
HB0017
Criminal Law Misuse of
Interactive
Computer Service
Delegate Cardin
HB0020
Primary and
Secondary
Education - Security
- School Resource
Officers
Delegate Cluster
HB0026
(SB0151)
Administrative
Procedure Act Fiscal Impact
Statements for
Proposed
Regulations
Delegate
McDermott
HB0037
Employment
Delegate
Synopsis & MABE Position
Requiring the juvenile court to inquire as to the educational stability of a
child at specified hearings and proceedings; and authorizing the juvenile
court to consider specified factors in determining the educational stability
of a child. MABE: No Position
Establishing the Public School Facilities Security Improvements
Program; requiring the Interagency Committee on Public School
Construction to implement and administer the Program and to develop
procedures to provide grants to county boards to improve security in
public school facilities; authorizing the Interagency Committee to award
grants to improve security in public school facilities under specified
circumstances; requiring the Governor to provide a specified amount in
the State budget for the Program in fiscal year 2016; etc. MABE: No
Position
Expanding the prohibition against using an interactive computer service
to maliciously engage in a specified course of conduct that inflicts
serious emotional distress on a minor or places a minor in reasonable
fear of death or serious bodily injury with a specified intent, so as to
prohibit this conduct against any person regardless of age; and providing
penalties for a violation of the Act. MABE: No Position
Requiring that a specified number of school resource officers be
assigned to specified public schools in the State; requiring specified
public schools to hire retired law enforcement officers to serve as school
resource officers for the school; requiring specified school resource
officers to obtain a special police officer commission issued by the
Department of State Police; requiring the county superintendent to
submit an application to the Secretary of State Police for a special police
commission for each school resource officer hired; etc. MABE: Oppose
Altering a specified provision of law to clarify that a promulgating unit is
required to submit a specified fiscal impact statement with a proposed
regulation to the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and
Legislative Review and the Department of Legislative Services; and
altering a specified provision of law to prohibit a unit from adopting a
proposed regulation until after a specified fiscal impact statement is
submitted with the proposed regulation to the Committee for preliminary
review. MABE: No Position
Establishing that the ability of an employer to establish standards
1
Discrimination Dress and
Grooming
Standards
Washington, M.
HB0051
Public Schools Boards of Education
- Bullying Hotlines
and Tip Boxes
Delegate Cardin
HB0053
Public Records Provision of Copies,
Printouts, and
Photographs Required
Delegate Vitale
HB0056
Sales and Use Tax Tax-Free Periods School Supplies and
Textbooks
Family Law - Denial
of Custody or
Visitation - Sexual
Abuse of a Minor
Delegate Vitale
HB0069
Procurement - State
Funds - Energy
Efficient Outdoor
Lighting Fixtures
Delegate Carr
HB0076
Education Implementation of
the Common Core
State Standards Prohibition
Delegate Smigiel
HB0068
Delegate
Haddaway-Riccio
concerning an employee's dress and grooming that are directly related
to the nature of the employment of the employee does not allow the
employer to require or prohibit specific hairstyles or facial hair or prohibit
an employee from wearing clothing or adopting modes of grooming
based on sex. MABE: No Position
Requiring county boards of education to establish a toll-free bullying
hotline and distribute bullying tip boxes to public schools; requiring
county boards of education to publicize the bullying hotline and tip boxes
in specified locations and venues; requiring the completion of a victim of
bullying, harassment, or intimidation report form on receipt of a report of
an act of bullying, harassment, or intimidation on a bullying hotline or
from a tip box; establishing that specified information is confidential; etc.
MABE: Oppose
Requiring a custodian of a public record to provide a copy, printout, or
photograph of a public record to an applicant under specified
circumstances; authorizing a person or governmental unit that is not
provided with a copy, printout, or photograph of a public record to file a
complaint with a specified circuit court; authorizing the court to take
specified action regarding the failure to provide a copy, printout, or
photograph of a public record; etc. MABE: Oppose
Expanding the annual sales and use tax-free period to include specified
school supplies and textbooks if the taxable price of the school supply or
textbook is $500 or less; defining "school supply" and "textbook"; etc.
MABE: No Position
Prohibiting a court, except under specified circumstances or unless good
cause for the award of custody or visitation is shown, from awarding
custody of a child or visitation with a child to a parent who has been
found guilty of sexual abuse of a minor; clarifying that specified
provisions of law may not be construed to require a conviction of a party
for a crime before a determination by the court regarding custody or
visitation under specified circumstances; and applying the Act
prospectively. MABE: No Position
Expanding the prohibition on the use of State funds to install or replace
specified luminaires by applying the prohibition to all permanent outdoor
luminaires unless the luminaires meet specified requirements;
establishing specified requirements for luminaires intended for specified
lighting purposes; etc. MABE: No Position
Prohibiting the State Board of Education and specified county boards of
education from establishing specified educational policies, curriculum,
and guidelines that include or are based on the Common Core State
Standards; prohibiting the State Board from entering into any
agreements or joining any organizations that give control over
educational matters to any entity other than the State; requiring the State
Board to take specified steps to rescind the State Board's adoption of
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HB0086
Education Maryland Seal of
Biliteracy Act Establishment
Delegate Gutierrez
HB0087
Anne Arundel
County Superintendent of
Schools Compensation
Education Geographic Cost of
Education Requirement
Delegate McMillan
HB0117
(SB0165)
Education Maryland School
Assessment Request for Waiver
Delegate Luedtke
HB0123
Program Open
Space - Use of
Funds - Artificial
Turf Surfaces
Vehicle Laws School Vehicles Definition
Delegate Carr
Education - Public
School Holidays Veterans' Day
Juvenile Services Child in Need of
Supervision Pilot
Program Expansion
Delegate
Sophocleus
HB0114
HB0133
(SB0159)
HB0148
HB0151
Delegate Luedtke
Delegate Beitzel
Delegate Jones
the Common Core State Standards; etc. MABE: Oppose
Establishing the Maryland Seal of Biliteracy Program; providing for the
purpose of the Program; providing that participation in the Program by a
local school system is voluntary; providing that beginning with the
graduating class of 2015, specified students shall receive a Seal of
Biliteracy under specified circumstances; requiring the State Board of
Education to establish criteria and requirements on or before October 1,
2014; etc.
Prohibiting the Anne Arundel County Board of Education from paying
monetary compensation to the county superintendent of schools for sick
leave benefits earned in a specified manner. MABE: No Position/Local
Requiring that the county boards of education receive a specified grant
to reflect regional differences in the cost of education that are due to
factors outside of the control of the local jurisdiction; and repealing a
provision that allowed for the reduction of a grant under specified
circumstances. MABE: Support
Requiring the State Department of Education to request a specified
waiver from the U.S. Department of Education within a specified period
of time; prohibiting the Department from administering the Maryland
School Assessment in the spring of 2014 under specified circumstances;
and requiring the Department to administer the Maryland School
Assessment under specified circumstances. MABE: Support
Prohibiting the use of specified funds under Program Open Space to
build new or to replace specified athletic fields with artificial or synthetic
turf surfaces; etc. MABE: No Position
Altering the definition of a "school vehicle"; establishing that a "school
vehicle" includes specified vehicles that meet or comply with specified
standards and requirements, were originally used to transport children,
students, and teachers in another state, and are used only for
transporting children to and from specified locations.
Requiring Veterans' Day to be a public school holiday.
Requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to establish a Department
of Juvenile Services Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program in two
counties each year until the Pilot Program is available in every county in
the State; requiring the Secretary to determine which counties to add to
the Pilot Program based on specified criteria; requiring the Secretary to
submit a specified annual report to the General Assembly and the
Department of Budget and Management on or before July 1 each year;
etc. MABE: No Position
3
HB0157
Open Meetings Act Advance Notice of
Meeting - Agenda
Budget Bill (Fiscal
Year 2015)
Delegate Krebs
HB0165
(SB0042)
Financial Education
and Capability
Commission Membership and
Duties
Delegate Stein
HB0166
State Government Administrative
Procedure Act Effective Date of
Adopted
Regulations
Creation of a State
Debt - Qualified
Zone Academy
Bonds
Delegate Arora
State Capital
Projects - High
Performance
Buildings
Charles County Board of Education Salaries and
Expenses
Chair, Health and
Government
Operations
Committee
Charles County
Delegation
Anne Arundel
County Superintendent of
Schools Compensation for
Unused Leave on
Delegate
McConkey
HB0160
HB0190
(SB0218)
HB0207
HB0209
(SB0203)
HB0216
Speaker
Speaker
Requiring a public body to include an agenda containing specified
information in the advance notice of an open or closed meeting held by a
specified public body.
Making the proposed appropriations contained in the State budget for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, in accordance with Article III,
Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc. MABE: Support
Altering the membership of the Financial Education and Capability
Commission to include the Secretary of Higher Education, or the
Secretary's designee, rather than a member of the Higher Education
Commission; and altering the duties of the Commission to require the
Commission to coordinate specified financial education events and
activities to highlight a specified month as Financial Education Month.
Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the
Administrative Procedure Act. MABE: No Position
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,625,000, the
proceeds to be used as grants to the Interagency Committee on School
Construction and the Maryland State Department of Education for
specified development or improvement purposes; providing for the
disbursement of the loan proceeds and the further grant of funds to
eligible school systems for specified purposes, subject to a requirement
that the grantees document the provision of a required matching fund;
etc. MABE: Support
Altering the definition of a "high performance building" as it applies to
specified provisions of law relating to State capital projects.
Increasing the salary of the chair of the Charles County Board of
Education beginning in the year 2015 to $7,000 annually; increasing the
salary for the vice chair and other nonstudent members of the county
board beginning in the year 2015 to $6,000 and compensation for travel
and other expenses to $800 annually; providing that members of the
county board may be reimbursed for specified expenses after submitting
expense vouchers and supporting receipts; etc. MABE: No
Position/Local
Providing that the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, on
termination of the employment of the county superintendent of schools,
may compensate the county superintendent for specified unused leave
earned while employed as county superintendent only in the manner
applicable to specified other employees of the county board on
termination of employment. MABE: No Position/Local
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HB0222
HB0232
HB0242
(SB0282)
Termination of
Employment
Education Reportable
Offenses - First
Degree Burglary
and Animal Cruelty
County Boards of
Education Spending Reporting
Requirement
Juvenile Law Truancy Reduction
Pilot Program - Kent
County
Delegate Dumais
Adding first degree burglary and animal cruelty to a list of offenses for
which a law enforcement agency that arrests a student for the offense is
required to report the arrest to specified school officials under specified
circumstances. MABE: Support
Delegate Olszewski
Requiring each county board of education to provide a report to the
State Department of Education by specified dates on the amount of
State, local, and federal funds spent per student for specified students at
each school; requiring the Department to submit a specified report to the
General Assembly by specified dates; etc MABE: Oppose
Requiring each county board of education to provide a report to the
State Department of Education by specified dates on the amount of
State, local, and federal funds spent per student for specified students at
each school; requiring the Department to submit a specified report to the
General Assembly by specified dates; etc. MABE: No Position/Local
Establishing the Task Force to Study How to Improve Student
Achievement in Middle School; providing for the composition, chair, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from
receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of
specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study "A New Mission
for the Middle Grades" and make recommendations regarding specified
matters; etc.
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to establish a specified Prison In-Reach
Program; requiring each county board of education to include behavioral
health services with school health services; requiring DHMH to report to
the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2014
on a plan for statewide implementation of the School Health Program;
requiring the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to implement a
specified program throughout the State; etc. MABE: Support with
Amendment
Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for specified
time periods; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the
State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on
the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index; requiring the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry, beginning on a specified date and
each subsequent year, to determine and announce the growth in the
Consumer Price Index, if any, and the new State minimum wage rate;
etc. MABE: No Position
Expanding prekindergarten services to specified 4-year-old children;
establishing the Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Program; identifying
the purpose of the Program; requiring the Department of Education to
Delegate Jacobs
HB0265
Task Force to Study
How to Improve
Student
Achievement in
Middle School
Delegate Hixson
HB0273
(SB0262)
Mental Health and
Substance Use
Disorder Safety Net
Act of 2014
Delegate
Rosenberg
HB0295
(SB0331)
Maryland Minimum
Wage Act of 2014
Speaker
HB0297
(SB0332)
Prekindergarten
Expansion Act of
2014
Speaker
5
HB0311
(SB0265)
Gang-Related
Crimes - Reporting
Delegate Anderson
HB0343
(SB0383)
Allegany County
and Garrett County Boards of Education
- Removal of Ex
Officio Member
Allegany County
Delegation
HB0349
(SB0388)
Education Maintenance of
Effort - Lease
Payment Exclusion
Education - Talbot
County Board of
Education - Lease
of Public School
Facility
Criminal Law - PartTime School
Employees,
Contractors, and
Coaches - Sexual
Contact With Minors
Prohibited
Truant Students System of Active
Intervention Requirements
Delegate Vitale
HB0350
HB0362
HB0363
administer the Program; requiring the Program to be a competitive grant
program for specified providers; establishing specified criteria for priority
consideration of grant funds; establishing specified uses for grant funds;
etc.
Requiring the court, on request of the State's Attorney, to make a finding
as to whether a crime for which a defendant is convicted or receives a
probation before judgment disposition is a gang-related crime;
establishing that the State has the burden of proving by a
preponderance of the evidence that a crime is a gang-related crime;
requiring a finding by the court that a crime is a gang-related crime to
become part of the court record for purposes of reporting to the Criminal
Justice Information System Central Repository; etc.
Repealing the requirement that the Chair of the Board of County
Commissioners of Allegany County or any county commissioner serve
as an ex officio member of the Allegany County Board of Education;
repealing the requirement that the Chair or Vice Chair of the Board of
County Commissioners of Garrett County serve as an ex officio member
of the Garrett County Board of Education; making conforming changes;
and making stylistic changes.
Excluding specified lease payments made by a local school district from
the maintenance of effort calculation.
Delegate
Haddaway-Riccio
Authorizing the Talbot County Board of Education to lease a public
school facility to an organization that operates a community-based
educational and recreational program, subject to a specified
determination and specified limitations. MABE: No Position/Local
Delegate Arora
Altering the definition of a "person in a position of authority" prohibited
from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with
a specified person under a specified age under specified circumstances
to include any employee, contractor, subcontractor, or contractor's
employee, including a part-time employee or coach of a specified age
who exercises supervision of the person. MABE: Support
Delegate Glenn
Requiring the system of active intervention for specified truant students
developed by each county board of education to include an
Individualized Reengagement Plan for each truant student, coordination
and collaboration with State and municipal agencies to deliver services,
creation of a database to track truant students, and a specific plan for
each public school to reengage truant students; requiring the
Individualized Reengagement Plan to be developed by specified
individuals using a specified process; etc.
6
HB0384
(SB0290)
Baltimore County Board of Education Selection of
Members
Delegate Lafferty
HB0413
Special Education Individualized
Education Program
Parental Notice
Requirements and
Service Models List
Education Implementation of
Next Generation
Science Standards Prohibition
Delegate Luedtke
HB0426
Education Concussion Impact
Sensor Pilot
Program
Delegate Cardin
HB0427
Education Maryland Sudden
Cardiac Arrest
Prevention Act
Delegate Hixson
HB0428
Children - Maryland
Infants and Toddlers
Program - Eligibility
Education - School
Vehicles Authorized Riders
Delegate Luedtke
Anne Arundel
County - Board of
Delegate Schuh
HB0423
HB0440
(SB0058)
HB0444
(SB0148)
Delegate Ready
Delegate PenaMelnyk
Establishing procedures for the election and appointment of the
members of the Baltimore County Board of Education; repealing
provisions governing the appointment of members of the county board;
establishing the composition of the county board; requiring members of
the county board to reside in, be a registered voter in, and be elected
from specified districts; providing for a student member of the county
board; providing for the removal of, and hearings and appeal procedures
for, specified members of the county board; etc. MABE: No
Position/Local
Requiring the parents of a child attending their initial individualized
education program evaluation meeting to be provided a specified verbal
and written explanation of their rights and responsibilities and a program
procedural safeguards notice and providing the right for the parents to
request this information at any meeting thereafter; etc.
Prohibiting the State Board of Education and specified county boards of
education from establishing specified educational policies, curriculum,
and guidelines that include or are based on the Next Generation Science
Standards; and requiring the State Board to take specified steps to
rescind the adoption by the State Board of the Next Generation Science
Standards on or before July 1, 2014.
Establishing the Concussion Impact Sensor Pilot Program; requiring the
State Department of Education to develop and implement the Program,
in collaboration with specified entities; requiring specified circumstances
to be met before the Program can be implemented; if the program can
be implemented, requiring each board of education to choose one high
school football team to participate in the Program and to provide
specified team members with a concussion impact sensor; etc.
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with
specified entities, to develop policies and to implement a program to
provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, students, and parents
or guardians of students on the risk of sudden cardiac arrest; requiring a
county board of education to provide information and a notice to
specified students and parents or guardians; requiring a student and
parent or guardian to sign a specified statement; etc.
Altering the eligibility requirements for the Maryland Infants and Toddlers
Program by allowing a child to participate until the beginning of the
school year after the child turns 4 years old.
Prohibiting the driver of a school vehicle from allowing specified
individuals to board or ride on the school vehicle, subject to specified
exceptions; and authorizing specified individuals to board or ride on a
school vehicle under specified circumstances.
Requiring that specified members of the Anne Arundel County Board of
Education be elected at specified elections; requiring that specified
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Education Selection of
Members
HB0461
State Early
Childhood Advisory
Council
Chair, Ways and
Means Committee
HB0469
Speed Monitoring
Systems - School
Zones - Days of
Operation
Joint Committee on
Access to Mental
Health Services Name Change
Delegate Davis
Nancy Grasmick
Teacher Award and
Walter Sondheim Jr.
Public Service
Internship
Scholarship Qualifications
Education - Task
Force to Study the
Suspension of
Prekindergarten
Students in Public
Schools
Delegate
Rosenberg
HB0567
Procurement - State
Vehicle Fleet Biodiesel or Biofuel
Requirements
Delegate Bromwell
HB0571
School Counselors Role Expansion in
Public High Schools
Delegate Kaiser
HB0488
(SB0084)
HB0536
HB0561
Delegate PenaMelnyk
Delegate Robinson,
B.
members of the county board be appointed; providing for the residency,
terms of office, and filling of a vacancy of specified members of the
county board; authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections to
adopt specified regulations; etc. MABE: No Position/Local
Establishing the State Early Childhood Advisory Council; providing for
the composition, chair, and staffing of the Council; requiring the Council
to develop a strategic plan to improve the school readiness of young
children; requiring the Council to provide a statewide strategic report on
or before December 1, 2015; etc.
Altering the permissible days for the operation of a speed monitoring
system in a school zone to establish that the speed monitoring system
may operate only on days when the school for which the school zone
has been established is scheduled to be in session.
Changing the name of the Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health
Services to the Joint Committee on Access to Behavioral Health
Services; altering the duties of the Committee by requiring it to monitor
access to specified behavioral health services and specified medically
necessary services; and altering the information that must be included in
a specified report to the Governor and the General Assembly.
Requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance to assist in the
repayment of specified higher education loans owed by recipients of a
Nancy Grasmick Teacher Award who receive specified degrees from
specified institutions of higher education; adding specified individuals
who attended specified institutions of higher education and also
graduated from specified high schools in the State to the list of
individuals eligible for a specified repayment program; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Suspension of Prekindergarten
Students in Public Schools; providing for the composition, chair, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from
receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of
specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make
recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the Task Force
to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and
specified committees on or before December 31, 2014; etc.
Altering the requirement that the State ensure that at least 50% of the
vehicles in the State vehicle fleet using diesel fuel use a blend of fuel
containing at least 5% biodiesel or other biofuel; requiring that 100% of
the vehicles in the State vehicle fleet, in specified years, use a blend of
fuel containing at least a specified percentage of biodiesel or other
biofuel; etc.
Stating a goal of the State regarding a ratio of school counselors to
students; requiring each local school system to develop and adopt a
plan on or before December 1, 2016; requiring specified school
counselors to spend a specified percentage of time performing specified
8
HB0577
HB0607
HB0628
(SB0238)
HB0630
(SB0576)
HB0632
(SB0484)
HB0639
Task Force to Study
Housing and
Supportive Services
for Unaccompanied
Homeless Youth Continuation,
Membership,
Stipend, and Duties
Education - Student
Privacy and Cloud
Computing Act
Delegate
Washington, M.
Board of Public
Works - Relocatable
Classrooms - Indoor
Air Quality
Requirements
Teachers'
Retirement and
Pension Systems Reemployment of
Retirees - Penalty
for Failure to Submit
Certification
Delegate Robinson,
S.
Procurement Maryland Funding
Accountability and
Transparency Act Revisions
Task Force on
CommunityPartnered SchoolBased Mental
Health
Delegate PenaMelnyk
Delegate Kaiser
Delegate Griffith
Delegate Luedtke
activities; requiring each local school system to share resources and
technology available for school counselors; requiring specified county
boards of education to develop a transition plan using existing resources
of a local school system; etc.
Altering the membership and duties of the Task Force to Study Housing
and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth;
authorizing youth or young adult members of the Task Force to receive a
specified stipend as compensation for serving on the Task Force;
requiring the Task Force to issue its findings and recommendations to
the Governor and General Assembly in a preliminary report on or before
November 1, 2014 and in a final report on or before June 1, 2015; and
extending to June 30, 2015 the termination date of the Task Force.
Authorizing educational institutions to use cloud computing services to
provide specified individuals access to specified documents; requiring an
educational institution and a cloud computing service provider to enter
into a specified agreement; providing for the content of the agreement;
prohibiting a cloud computing service provider from using or processing
specified student data in a specified manner; etc.
Requiring the Board of Public Works, in consultation with specified
departments, to adopt regulations that include specifications relating to
indoor air quality for the occupants of relocatable classrooms
constructed after July 1, 2014, that are purchased or leased using State
funds. MABE: Support
Altering the amount a local school system or the Maryland School for the
Deaf must pay as a penalty for failing to submit to the Board of Trustees
for the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Department
of Education within a specified period of time a specified certification
regarding retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers'
Pension System who are employed by a local school system or the
Maryland School for the Deaf and are exempt from a specified
retirement allowance offset.
Altering the information regarding State payments that a specified
searchable Web site is required to contain; and requiring the searchable
Web site to allow a user to compare data for multiple fiscal years and
access specified information regarding specified contracts.
Establishing the Task Force on Community-Partnered School-Based
Mental Health; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the
Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving
specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified
expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make
recommendations regarding specified matters; and requiring the Task
Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and
the General Assembly on or before December 15, 2014.
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HB0653
Education - Deaf
Culture Digital
Library
Delegate Luedtke
HB0658
Public Information
Act - State Public
Information Act
Compliance Board Establishment
Delegate Carter
HB0694
Baltimore County Education - Report
on Low-Achieving
Students
Delegate Cluster
HB0722
Baltimore County Education Advancement Via
Individual
Determination Pilot
Program
Delegate Cluster
HB0727
(SB0232)
Procurement Prevailing Wage Applicability
Public Schools and
Institutions of Higher
Education - Artificial
Trans Fat Prohibition
Delegate Olszewski
Education Academic
Standards and
Curriculum Common Core State
Standards
Implementation
Prohibited
Delegate
McDonough
HB0736
(SB0251)
HB0764
Delegate Carter
Requiring the Division of Library Development and Services in the
Department of Education to establish the Deaf Culture Digital Library;
and specifying the mission, duties, and responsibilities of the Deaf
Culture Digital Library.
Establishing the State Public Information Act Compliance Board;
providing for the powers and duties of the Board; authorizing any person
to file a specified complaint with the Board; requiring that the complaint
contain specified information and be signed by the complainant;
requiring the Board to take specified action regarding a complaint;
requiring a custodian who receives a complaint from the Board to file a
specified response within a specified time period; etc.
Requiring the Baltimore County Superintendent of Schools to submit a
specified report on the number of students in specified grades for each
Baltimore County public school with less than a specified grade point
average and the programs that have been established to reduce the
number of students with a low grade point average to the Baltimore
County Board of Education, the Baltimore County Council, and the
Baltimore County Delegation of the General Assembly on or before
December 1, 2014; etc.
Establishing the Advancement Via Individual Determination Pilot
Program in Baltimore County; establishing the purpose of the Program;
requiring the Baltimore County Board of Education to develop and
implement the Program; requiring the Program to require a minimum
number of specified teachers in each Tier 3 high school; requiring that
funds for the Program be provided from the Education Trust Fund;
requiring that money in the Education Trust Fund be used to provide
funds for the Program; etc.
Repealing a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing
Wage Law to the construction of a public work by revising the definition
of "public body".
Prohibiting a public school or public institution of higher education from
storing, distributing, holding for service, using in the preparation of any
menu item, or serving food containing artificial trans fat; and defining
"artificial trans fat" as the specific type of fat formed by adding hydrogen
to liquid vegetable oil to make the oil more solid, and including partially
hydrogenated vegetable shortening, margarine, and vegetable oil.
Prohibiting the State Board of Education from taking any further action to
implement or direct the State Department of Education to implement or
require a local education agency to implement specified State standards
and curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards; requiring
the State Board to implement specified academic standards and
curriculum on or after July 1, 2014; etc.
10
HB0771
Commission to
Study the Impact of
the Common Core
State Standards in
Harford County
Delegate
McDonough
HB0776
Commission to
Study the Impact of
the Common Core
State Standards in
Baltimore County
Delegate
McDonough
HB0777
Baltimore County Board of Education Selection of
Members
Delegate
McDonough
HB0781
(SB0460)
Criminal Law Person in a Position
of Authority - Sexual
Offenses With a
Minor
Delegate Clippinger
HB0783
(SB0717)
Task Force to Study
School-Based
Health Centers
Delegate Cullison
HB0798
(SB0701)
Education - Children
With Disabilities Habilitative Services
Information
Local Government
Tort Claims Act and
Delegate Kelly, A.
HB0809
Delegate
Waldstreicher
Establishing the Commission to Study the Impact of the Common Core
State Standards in Harford County; providing for the composition, chair,
and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to study a
specified impact, hold specified public meetings, evaluate specified
concerns, and make recommendations regarding specified matters;
requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations on
or before January 1, 2015; terminating the Act at the end of June 30,
2015; etc.
Establishing the Commission to Study the Impact of the Common Core
State Standards in Baltimore County; providing for the composition,
chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to study
a specified impact, hold specified public meetings, evaluate specified
concerns, and make recommendations regarding specified matters;
requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations on
or before January 1, 2015; terminating the Act at the end of June 30,
2015; etc.
Requiring that specified members of the Baltimore County Board of
Education be elected; requiring that specified members of the county
board be appointed within a specified period of time; establishing the
composition of the county board; providing for the qualifications, terms of
office, and filling of a vacancy of a member of the county board;
establishing a procedure for the election and appointment of members of
the county board; etc.
Altering a specified prohibition against a specified "person in a position
of authority" from engaging in specified conduct to prohibit a specified
person in a position of authority from engaging in sexual contact, a
sexual act, or vaginal intercourse with a minor who is at least 7 years
younger than the person in a position of authority and who the person in
a position of authority knows is or was enrolled or participating in the
institution, program, or activity at which the person in a position of
authority works; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study School-Based Health Centers;
providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force;
prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified
compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses;
requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding
policies for the integration and sustainability of School-Based Health
Centers in the State; etc.
Requiring a local school system to provide to the parents of a child with
a disability verbal and written information about access to habilitative
services at specified times.
Establishing that the limits on liability of a local government under the
Local Government Tort Claims Act do not apply to a tort action for
11
HB0811
(SB0876)
HB0812
Maryland Tort
Claims Act Damages Sustained
on Artificial or
Synthetic Turf
Playing Fields
Education - Summer
Career Academy
Pilot Program
damages sustained by an individual on an artificial or synthetic turf
playing field owned or operated by a local government; providing that the
State, its officers, and its units may not raise sovereign immunity as a
defense in a tort action for damages sustained by an individual on a
State-owned or State-operated artificial or synthetic turf playing field; etc.
Delegate Olszewski
Education - Middle
Schools Automated External
Defibrillators
Education - State
Grant to Counties
With Small and
Declining Student
Enrollment
Task Force to Study
Vocational and
Technical Education
Programs in Harford
County
Delegate Lee
HB0869
(SB0715)
Task Force to Study
Chronic
Absenteeism in
Maryland's Public
Schools
Delegate Cullison
HB0883
(SB0014)
Task Force to Study
Safe and Healthy
School Hours for
Maryland Public
Schools
Delegate Miller, A.
HB0814
(SB0534)
HB0838
Delegate Beitzel
Delegate James
Establishing the Summer Career Academy Pilot Program and identifying
the purpose of the Program; requiring the State Department of
Education to develop criteria for the selection of eligible school systems
and eligible students for participation in the Program; authorizing the
State Superintendent of Schools to select up to four school systems to
participate in the Program; requiring a student selected to participate in
the Program to be assigned a summer career counselor and to receive a
$4,500 stipend; etc.
Altering a requirement that each county board of education develop and
implement an automated external defibrillator program that meets
specified requirements for high schools to include middle schools in the
county.
Establishing eligibility for a county board of education to receive a
specified State grant; requiring a specified grant to be provided to
eligible county boards in specified fiscal years; declaring the intent of the
General Assembly; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study Chronic Absenteeism in Maryland's
Public Schools; requiring the Task Force to collect and analyze specified
data, evaluate local and national strategies and best practices to
address chronic absenteeism, identify responses to chronic absenteeism
that rely on prevention and intervention, and make specified
recommendations; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and
recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or
before December 1, 2014; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study Chronic Absenteeism in Maryland's
Public Schools; requiring the Task Force to collect and analyze specified
data, evaluate local and national strategies and best practices to
address chronic absenteeism, identify responses to chronic absenteeism
that rely on prevention and intervention, and make specified
recommendations; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and
recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or
before December 1, 2014; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study Safe and Healthy School Hours for
Maryland Public Schools; providing for the composition, chair, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting Task Force members from
receiving compensation, but authorizing reimbursement for specified
expenses under the Standard State Travel Regulations; requiring the
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HB0884
Income Tax Credit Nonpublic
Education Expenses
Delegate Schuh
HB0893
Education - Local
School System
Autonomy
Delegate George
HB0903
Baltimore County Truancy Education
Pilot Program Parents and
Guardians of
Students
Delegate Boteler
HB0904
Human Services Local Management
Boards - Study and
Report
Delegate ValentinoSmith
HB0909
Procurement Purchasing
Products Containing
Chicken Processed
in China Prohibition on Use
of State Funds
Task Force to Study
a Funding Formula
for Corollary Athletic
Programs
Delegate Kramer
Education Common Core State
Delegate George
HB0922
(SB0857)
HB0925
(SB0408)
Delegate Luedtke
Task Force to study and make recommendations relating to alternative
school day starting times for Maryland public schools; etc.
Allowing a parent or guardian a credit against the State income tax for
specified nonpublic education expenses; providing that the credit may
not exceed $1,000; providing that the credit may be carried forward to
the 5th taxable year after the taxable year in which the nonpublic
education expense is incurred; requiring the Comptroller to adopt
regulations; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December
31, 2013; etc.
Providing that specified bylaws, rules, and regulations of the State Board
of Education do not apply to a county board of education under specified
circumstances; requiring a county board to provide specified notice to
the public concerning specified grant applications; requiring a county
board to establish specified policies for the county school system; etc.
Authorizing a specified court in Baltimore County to include mandatory
participation in a Truancy Education Pilot Program as a condition under
which the court may suspend a specified fine or prison sentence of a
person who fails to see that a child attends school, subject to a specified
limitation; requiring the Office of Pupil Personnel Services in Baltimore
County to implement a Truancy Education Pilot Program for a specified
number of the parents or guardians of students who are chronically
truant; etc.
Requiring the Department of Legislative Services and the Governor's
Office for Children to conduct a study of local management boards;
providing for the scope of the study; and requiring the Department of
Legislative Services to report on the findings of the study by December
1, 2014.
Prohibiting the use of State funds to purchase a product that contains
chicken that was processed in China; and applying the prohibition to
specified procurements and units of State government that are generally
excluded from State procurement law.
Establishing the Task Force to Study a Funding Formula for Corollary
Athletic Programs; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of
the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving
specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified
expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make
recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the Task Force
to report its findings and recommendations on or before a specified date;
etc.
Requiring each county board of education to determine the
implementation timeline for the Common Core State Standards
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HB0926
HB0944
Standards Implementation
Timeline
Education - Public
Charter Schools Virtual Learning
Programs Authority
Education - Home
Instruction
Programs - Private
Tutors
notwithstanding any other provision of law.
Delegate Smigiel
Altering the definition of public charter school to include the
establishment of a virtual learning program as a public charter school;
defining "virtual learning program"; etc.
Delegate Smigiel
Providing that a child participating in a specified home instruction
program is in compliance with specified provisions of law if the parent or
guardian in charge of the child and in control of the home instruction
program provides or arranges for a private tutor to provide specified
instruction; and requiring a private tutor to meet specified requirements.
Providing that, except under specified circumstances, for specified
provisions of law concerning specified charitable, educational, or
religious property, when any property that was formerly exempt from
property tax is sold and the property is no longer entitled to the
exemption, the property tax is payable for the remainder of the taxable
year from the date of transfer; making the Act applicable to all taxable
years beginning after June 30, 2014; etc.
Requiring the Division of Labor and Industry in the Department of Labor,
Licensing, and Regulation to collect and retain a specified civil penalty
rather than have the penalty paid into the General Fund; requiring a
contractor to pay specified liquidated damages for late submission of
payroll records to the Division and not to the General Fund; requiring a
contractor to pay specified liquidated damages for failing to pay a
specified laborer or employee the prevailing wage to the Division and not
to the General Fund; etc.
Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Juvenile Assessment
Center and Constructive Alternatives to Managing Youth at Risk of
Delinquency in Prince George's County; providing for the composition,
chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task
Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the
reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study,
identify, and report on specified issues, hold specified meetings, and
make specified recommendations; etc.
HB0950
Property Tax Charitable,
Educational, or
Religious Properties
- Tax on Formerly
Exempt Property
Delegate Hogan
HB0956
Prevailing Wage
Enforcement Act
Delegate Mizeur
HB0994
Task Force on the
Creation of a
Juvenile
Assessment Center
and Constructive
Alternatives to
Managing Youth at
Risk of Delinquency
in Prince George's
County PG 306-14
Education - Federal
Elementary and
Secondary
Education Act Waivers
Prince George's
County Delegation
HB1001
(SB0910)
Delegate Hixson
Requiring a waiver from the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act requested by the State Department of Education to the
United States Department of Education to be consistent with State law
and regulations; requiring the Department to adopt regulations
establishing the provisions of a waiver before requesting a waiver;
requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to submit a detailed
description of how a waiver is consistent with State law and regulations;
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etc.
HB1013
HB1017
HB1033
HB1034
(SB0901)
HB1035
HB1053
(SB0210)
HB1055
Prince George's
County Board of
Education - Public
High Schools Outdoor Synthetic
Turf Fields PG 40914
Prince George's
County - Board of
Education - Elected
Member Vacancy Approval of
Appointment PG
422-14
Prince George's
County Delegation
Queen Anne's
County Board of
Education - Filling a
Vacancy in
Membership
Queen Anne's
County - School
Buses - Length of
Operation
Prince George's
County Juvenile
Court and School
Safety Workgroup Continuation,
Membership, and
Duties PG 305-14
Child Abuse Failure to Report Penalties and Task
Force
Queen Anne's
County Delegation
Prince George's
County - Board of
Education -
Prince George's
County Delegation
Prince George's
County Delegation
Queen Anne's
County Delegation
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to install an
outdoor synthetic turf field at each public high school in the county
during a specified period of time; requiring outdoor synthetic turf fields to
be constructed for joint use; requiring specified expenditures to be
deemed eligible public school construction costs or capital improvement
costs by the Interagency Committee on School Construction for
specified purposes; etc.
Requiring the County Executive of Prince George's County to transmit to
the clerk of the Prince George's County Council the name of a specified
individual appointed to fill a vacancy of an elected member of the Prince
George's County Board of Education; and altering a provision relating to
a rejection of a specified appointment to establish that, if the County
Council does not disapprove the appointment within 30 days after the
transmittal of the name of the appointee, the appointment shall be
considered approved.
Altering provisions of law concerning the filling of a vacancy on the
Queen Anne's County Board of Education; providing for the holding of
an election to fill a vacancy on the county board under specified
circumstances; and providing that a member appointed by the Governor
to fill a vacancy on the county board serves only for a specified period.
Altering the length of time a school bus may be operated in Queen
Anne's County.
Prince George's
County Delegation
Altering the membership and duties of the Prince George's County
Juvenile Court and School Safety Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup
to report its findings and recommendations to the Prince George's
County Delegation on or before December 15, 2014; and extending the
termination date of the Act creating the Workgroup to the end of
December 31, 2015.
Delegate McComas
Making it a misdemeanor, subject to specified penalties, for a specified
person to knowingly and willfully fail to report child abuse under specified
circumstances; establishing the Task Force to Study Training for
Mandatory Reporters on the Risk Factors, Prevention, Identification, and
Reporting of Child Abuse; providing for the composition, chair, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from
receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of
specified expenses; etc.
Prohibiting the Prince George's County Board of Education from issuing
a credit card to a member of the county board; and providing for a
delayed effective date.
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HB1058
HB1062
(SB0714)
Issuance of Credit
Cards - Prohibition
PG 415-14
Baltimore City School Closures Consultations
Delegate Carter
Baltimore City - 10Year Plan for Public
School Facilities Neighborhood
Revitalization and
Community
Development
Task Force to Study
Starting Times for
Maryland Public
Schools
Delegate Haynes
SB0030
Educational
Institutions Personal Electronic
Account - Privacy
Protection
Senator Young
SB0042
(HB0165)
Financial Education
and Capability
Commission Membership and
Duties
Senator Klausmeier
SB0058
Education - School
Vehicles Authorized Riders
Senator Pugh
SB0064
(HB0001)
Children in Need of
Assistance Educational Stability
Chair, Judicial
Proceedings
Committee
SB0014
Senator Reilly
Requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to conduct
specified public meetings and consult with the Parent and Community
Advisory Board before a vote to close a specified school that is not
included in a specified 10-Year Plan.
Stating a specified finding of the General Assembly; requiring the
Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to provide specified
information to specified residents and community leaders; requiring the
Board to provide an opportunity to specified individuals to coordinate
specified efforts with a specified design team; requiring a specified
committee to provide an opportunity to specified individuals to
communicate specified efforts to a specified committee; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study Starting Times for Maryland Public
Schools; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task
Force; prohibiting Task Force members from receiving compensation,
but authorizing reimbursement for specified expenses under the
Standard State Travel Regulations; requiring the Task Force to study
and make recommendations relating to a later starting time for Maryland
public schools; requiring the Task Force to submit a report; etc. MABE:
Oppose
Prohibiting an educational institution from requiring, requesting,
suggesting, or causing a student, an applicant, or a prospective student
to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that
allows access to or observation of the individual's personal electronic
account; prohibiting an educational institution from compelling, as a
condition of acceptance or participation in specified activities, an
individual to add individuals to a list of contacts or to change privacy
settings; etc.
Altering the membership of the Financial Education and Capability
Commission to include the Secretary of Higher Education, or the
Secretary's designee, rather than a member of the Higher Education
Commission; and altering the duties of the Commission to require the
Commission to coordinate specified financial education events and
activities to highlight a specified month as Financial Education Month.
MABE: Support w/Amendment to add MABE representative.
Prohibiting the driver of a school vehicle from allowing specified
individuals to board or ride on the school vehicle, subject to specified
exceptions; and authorizing specified individuals to board or ride on a
school vehicle under specified circumstances. MABE: No Position
Requiring the juvenile court to inquire as to the educational stability of a
child at specified hearings and proceedings; and authorizing the juvenile
court to consider specified factors in determining the educational stability
16
SB0084
Joint Committee on
Access to Mental
Health Services Name Change
Senator Benson
SB0091
State Ethics
Commission - Local
Governments and
School Boards Compliance
Enforcement
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
SB0103
Public Health
Programs for
Children Renaming and
Modernization
Chair, Finance
Committee
SB0109
Public Ethics Financial Disclosure
Statements Electronic Filing
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
SB0116
Juvenile Law Committed Facilities
- Repeal of
Termination
Juvenile Law Commitment Placement Visits
Juvenile Law Juvenile Services
Education Facilities
Chair, Judicial
Proceedings
Committee
Education - Children
With Disabilities -
Chair, Education,
Health, and
SB0117
SB0118
SB0120
Chair, Judicial
Proceedings
Committee
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
of a child. MABE: No Position
Changing the name of the Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health
Services to the Joint Committee on Access to Behavioral Health
Services; altering the duties of the Committee by requiring it to monitor
access to specified behavioral health services and specified medically
necessary services; and altering the information that must be included in
a specified report to the Governor and the General Assembly. MABE: No
Position
Requiring the State Ethics Commission to adopt specified model
provisions for school boards; providing that a specified model provision
may be adopted or imposed on a school board under specified
circumstances; authorizing the State Ethics Commission, after making a
specified determination, to issue an order directing a county or municipal
corporation or school board to comply with specified provisions of the
Public Ethics Law; etc. MABE: No Position
Changing the name of the Program for Hearing-Impaired Infants to the
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program; altering the
membership and duties of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
Advisory Council; altering the length of an Advisory Council member's
term; providing for staggered terms for Advisory Council members;
altering the number of times the Advisory Council must meet each year;
etc. MABE: No Position
Requiring that specified financial disclosure statements be filed
electronically with the State Ethics Commission; and requiring the Ethics
Commission to develop and implement specified procedures for the
electronic filing of a financial disclosure statement and for the granting of
exemptions to the mandatory electronic filing requirement. MABE: No
Position
Repealing the termination of specified provisions of law authorizing the
Department of Juvenile Services to transfer a child committed to
residential placement from a specified facility to another facility under
specified circumstances. MABE: No Position
Authorizing the use of video conferencing by a juvenile counselor for
specified commitment placements under specified circumstances.
MABE: No Position
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Juvenile Services adopt
regulations requiring the provision of year-round educational services in
residential programs; repealing a requirement that the State Department
of Education develop and implement an educational program specific to
the Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School; repealing requirements related to the
transmission of specified records under specified circumstances; etc.
MABE: No Position
Adding the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation and the
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to the list of
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Parent Surrogates
Environmental
Affairs Committee
Education
Coordinating
Committee and Lida
Lee Tall Learning
Resources Center Repeal
State-Aided
Educational
Institutions Qualification Criteria
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
Education Compensatory
Education Grants Federal Community
Eligibility Provision
Public Ethics Officials and
Regulated Lobbyists
- Late-Filing
Penalties
Family Law - Foster
Care - Kinship
Parent Age
Requirements
Chair, Budget and
Taxation
Committee
SB0148
Anne Arundel
County - Board of
Education Selection of
Members
Senator Reilly
SB0151
(HB0026)
Administrative
Procedure Act Fiscal Impact
Statements for
Proposed
Regulations
Senator Colburn
SB0124
SB0125
SB0128
SB0129
SB0144
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
public agencies required to request a local school system
superintendent to appoint a parent surrogate to represent a child at any
point in the educational decision making process if it is suspected that
the child may be disabled. MABE: No Position
Repealing the Education Coordinating Committee and the Lida Lee Tall
Learning Resources Center. MABE: No Position
Updating the information required in the documentation supporting an
application for qualification as a State-aided institution; and updating the
criteria on which the State Superintendent of Schools must review and
comment regarding a list of qualified State-aided educational institutions.
MABE: No Position
Altering for specified fiscal years a definition to determine the number of
students used to calculate a grant for schools that participate in a
specified federal program; etc. MABE: HOLD – pending additional
information.
Chair, Education,
Health, and
Environmental
Affairs Committee
Altering specified fees that an official or a regulated lobbyist must pay for
failing to file in a timely manner a required report or financial disclosure
statement form with the State Ethics Commission. MABE: No Position
Senator Kelley
Lowering, from 21 years to 18 years, the age that a person must be to
serve as a kinship parent for a child in need of out-of-home placement;
and repealing a provision authorizing a local department to waive the
age requirement for a potential kinship parent who is at least 18 years of
age and who lives with a spouse who is at least 21 years of age. MABE:
No Position
Requiring that specified members of the Anne Arundel County Board of
Education be elected at specified elections; requiring that specified
members of the county board be appointed; providing for the residency,
terms of office, and filling of a vacancy of specified members of the
county board; authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections to
adopt specified regulations; etc. MABE: No Position/Local
Altering a specified provision of law to clarify that a promulgating unit is
required to submit a specified fiscal impact statement with a proposed
regulation to the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and
Legislative Review and the Department of Legislative Services; and
altering a specified provision of law to prohibit a unit from adopting a
proposed regulation until after a specified fiscal impact statement is
submitted with the proposed regulation to the Committee for preliminary
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SB0159
(HB0133)
Vehicle Laws School Vehicles Definition
Senator Edwards
SB0165
(HB0117)
Education Maryland School
Assessment Request for Waiver
Senator King
SB0170
Budget Bill (Fiscal
Year 2015)
President
SB0171
Creation of State
Debt - Maryland
Consolidated
Capital Bond Loan
of 2014, and the
Maryland
Consolidated
Capital Bond Loans
of 2005, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012, and
2013
Budget
Reconciliation and
Financing Act of
2014
President
SB0194
Anne Arundel
County Board of
Education - Student
Member - Voting
Rights
Senator Reilly
SB0199
State Education Aid
- Real Property
Valuation - Tax
Senator Ferguson
SB0172
President
review. MABE: No Position
Altering the definition of a "school vehicle"; establishing that a "school
vehicle" includes specified vehicles that meet or comply with specified
standards and requirements, were originally used to transport children,
students, and teachers in another state, and are used only for
transporting children to and from specified locations. MABE: Oppose
Requiring the State Department of Education to request a specified
waiver from the U.S. Department of Education within a specified period
of time; prohibiting the Department from administering the Maryland
School Assessment in the spring of 2014 under specified circumstances;
and requiring the Department to administer the Maryland School
Assessment under specified circumstances. MABE: Support
Making the proposed appropriations contained in the State budget for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, in accordance with Article III,
Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc. MABE: Support
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of
$1,166,065,000, the proceeds to be used for specified necessary
building, construction, demolition, planning, renovation, conversion,
replacement, and capital equipment purchases of the State, for acquiring
specified real estate in connection therewith, and for grants to specified
subdivisions and other organizations for specified development and
improvement purposes, subject to specified requirements; etc. MABE:
Support
Authorizing specified funds to be used for specified purposes;
authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or
repealing specified required appropriations; altering the rate of specified
commissions; providing for the transfer of specified funds; altering the
rate of a specified assessment; requiring the Health Services Cost
Review Commission to establish a Community Partnership Assistance
Program; setting limits in increases in payments to specified providers
for a specified fiscal year; etc.
Providing that the student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of
Education may not vote on specified matters; and authorizing the board,
by majority vote of the elected members, to determine whether a matter
is subject to the exclusionary provision under the Act that forbids the
student member from voting on specified matters. MABE: No
Position/Local
Requiring the assessed valuation of specified real property used in
calculating the wealth of a jurisdiction for purposes of education aid to
remain at a specified assessment for a specified period of time; defining
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Increment Financing
SB0200
(HB0263)
terms; and applying the Act to the calculation of specified payments for
fiscal years after June 30, 2014.
Elections - Early
Voting Centers Days of Operation
Charles County Board of Education Salaries and
Expenses
Senator Ferguson
Altering the days on which each early voting center is required to be
open before a primary or general election.
Senator Middleton
SB0204
Prevailing Wage
Rates Reform Act of
2014
Senator Manno
SB0210
Child Abuse Failure to Report Penalties and Task
Force
Senator Kelley
SB0218
(HB0190)
Creation of a State
Debt - Qualified
Zone Academy
Bonds
President
SB0232
Procurement Prevailing Wage Applicability
Board of Public
Works - Relocatable
Classrooms - Indoor
Air Quality
Senator Stone
Increasing the salary of the chair of the Charles County Board of
Education beginning in the year 2015 to $7,000 annually; increasing the
salary for the vice chair and other nonstudent members of the county
board beginning in the year 2015 to $6,000 and compensation for travel
and other expenses to $800 annually; providing that members of the
county board may be reimbursed for specified expenses after submitting
expense vouchers and supporting receipts; etc.
Expanding the applicability of the prevailing wage rate law to political
subdivisions, agencies, and public works on property where the State, a
political subdivision, or an agency is the owner or lessee by altering the
definition of "public body"; altering the dollar amount for public work
contracts at which the prevailing wage rate law applies; requiring that
prevailing wage rates be calculated using wage rates established by
specified collective bargaining agreements; etc.
Making it a misdemeanor, subject to specified penalties, for a specified
person to knowingly and willfully fail to report child abuse under specified
circumstances; establishing the Task Force to Study Training for
Mandatory Reporters on the Risk Factors, Prevention, Identification, and
Reporting of Child Abuse; providing for the composition, chair, and
staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from
receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of
specified expenses; etc.
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,625,000, the
proceeds to be used as grants to the Interagency Committee on School
Construction and the Maryland State Department of Education for
specified development or improvement purposes; providing for the
disbursement of the loan proceeds and the further grant of funds to
eligible school systems for specified purposes, subject to a requirement
that the grantees document the provision of a required matching fund;
etc.
Repealing a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing
Wage Law to the construction of a public work by revising the definition
of "public body".
Requiring the Board of Public Works, in consultation with specified
departments, to adopt regulations that include specifications relating to
indoor air quality for the occupants of relocatable classrooms
constructed after July 1, 2014, that are purchased or leased using State
SB0203
(HB0209)
SB0238
Senator King
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Requirements
SB0251
funds; and generally relating to indoor air quality requirements for
relocatable classrooms,etc.
Public Schools and
Institutions of Higher
Education - Artificial
Trans Fat Prohibition
Baltimore City
Public School
System - Chief
Executive Officer Advice and Consent
of the Senate
Mental Health and
Substance Use
Disorder Safety Net
Act of 2014
Senator Muse
Prohibiting a public school or public institution of higher education from
storing, distributing, holding for service, using in the preparation of any
menu item, or serving food containing artificial trans fat; and defining
"artificial trans fat".
Senator Conway
Requiring the employment contract of the Chief Executive Officer of the
Baltimore City Public School System to be contingent on the advice and
consent of the Senate.
Senator Madaleno
SB0265
(HB0311)
Gang-Related
Crimes - Reporting
Senator JonesRodwell
SB0271
Income Tax Credit Home Instruction
Expenses
Senator Jacobs
SB0275
(HB0046)
State Government Maryland Uniform
Electronic Legal
Materials Act
Senator Kelley
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) to establish a specified Prison In-Reach
Program; requiring each county board of education to include behavioral
health services with school health services; requiring DHMH to report to
the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2014
on a plan for statewide implementation of the School Health Program;
requiring the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to implement a
specified program throughout the State; etc.
Requiring the court, on request of the State's Attorney, to make a finding
as to whether a crime for which a defendant is convicted or receives a
probation before judgment disposition is a gang-related crime;
establishing that the State has the burden of proving by a
preponderance of the evidence that a crime is a gang-related crime;
requiring a finding by the court that a crime is a gang-related crime to
become part of the court record for purposes of reporting to the Criminal
Justice Information System Central Repository; etc.
Allowing a parent or guardian a credit against the State income tax for
specified home instruction expenses; providing that the credit may not
exceed $1,000; providing that the credit may be carried forward to the
fifth taxable year after the taxable year in which the expenses were
incurred; requiring the Comptroller, in consultation with the State
Department of Education, to adopt specified regulations; defining
specified terms; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 2013; etc.
Requiring an official publisher that publishes legal material in an
electronic record to designate the electronic record as official, under
specified circumstances, and authenticate the electronic record in a
specified manner; providing that specified legal material in an electronic
record is presumed to be an accurate copy of the legal material;
requiring an official publisher of specified legal material in an electronic
SB0253
SB0262
(HB0273)
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record to provide for the preservation and security of the record; etc.
SB0282
(HB0242)
Juvenile Law Truancy Reduction
Pilot Program - Kent
County
Public Schools Smoking on School
Property Prohibition
Baltimore County Board of Education Selection of
Members
Senator Hershey
SB0331
(HB0295)
Maryland Minimum
Wage Act of 2014
President
SB0332
(HB0297)
Prekindergarten
Expansion Act of
2014
President
SB0350
Motor Vehicles Speed Monitoring
Systems - Local
Jurisdictions
Senator Brochin
SB0288
SB0290
(HB0384)
Senator Zirkin
Senator Brochin
Authorizing the Circuit Administrative Judge of the Second Circuit to
establish a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in the juvenile court in Kent
County; and making specified provisions relating to a Truancy Reduction
Pilot Program in specified counties applicable to Kent County.
Prohibiting an individual from smoking a tobacco product at any time on
public school property; establishing a civil penalty of $50 for each
violation of the Act; and defining "smoking".
Establishing procedures for the election and appointment of the
members of the Baltimore County Board of Education; repealing
provisions governing the appointment of members of the county board;
establishing the composition of the county board; requiring members of
the county board to reside in, be a registered voter in, and be elected
from specified districts; providing for a student member of the county
board; providing for the removal of, and hearings and appeal procedures
for, specified members of the county board; etc.
Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for specified
time periods; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the
State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on
the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index; requiring the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry, beginning on a specified date and
each subsequent year, to determine and announce the growth in the
Consumer Price Index, if any, and the new State minimum wage rate;
etc.
Expanding prekindergarten services to specified 4-year-old children;
establishing the Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Program; identifying
the purpose of the Program; requiring the Department of Education to
administer the Program; requiring the Program to be a competitive grant
program for specified providers; establishing specified criteria for priority
consideration of grant funds; establishing specified uses for grant funds;
etc.
Altering the standards and requirements for the required warning period
for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; establishing that
speed monitoring systems placed in specified areas may only be placed
on highways with a specified minimum speed limit; applying notice and
signage standards for unmanned local stationary speed monitoring
systems to all local speed monitoring systems; establishing that a speed
monitoring system in a school zone may operate only during the regular
school year; etc.
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SB0353
Criminal Law Deadly Weapons on
School Property Public and Private
Schools
Allegany County
and Garrett County Boards of Education
- Removal of Ex
Officio Member
Senator Manno
Prohibiting a person from carrying or possessing a deadly weapon on
public or private school property; and extending specified exceptions
that allow the carrying or possession of a deadly weapon on public
school property to private school property.
Senator Edwards
Education Maintenance of
Effort - Lease
Payment Exclusion
Education Common Core State
Standards Implementation
Timeline
Libraries - Maryland
Library for the Blind
and Physically
Handicapped Funding
Senator Reilly
Repealing the requirement that the Chair of the Board of County
Commissioners of Allegany County or any county commissioner serve
as an ex officio member of the Allegany County Board of Education;
repealing the requirement that the Chair or Vice Chair of the Board of
County Commissioners of Garrett County serve as an ex officio member
of the Garrett County Board of Education; making conforming changes;
and making stylistic changes.
Excluding specified lease payments made by a local school district from
the maintenance of effort calculation.
SB0430
Libraries - Regional
Resource Centers
and County Public
Libraries - Funding
Senator King
SB0431
Education - Bridge
to Excellence State HoldHarmless
Requirement
Senator Getty
SB0449
(HB0166)
State Government Administrative
Procedure Act Effective Date of
Adopted
Senator Young
SB0383
(HB0343)
SB0388
(HB0349)
SB0408
SB0419
Senator Reilly
Requiring each county board of education to determine the
implementation timeline for the Common Core State Standards
notwithstanding any other provision of law.
Senator Manno
Authorizing the State Department of Education to include operating
funds for the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
in its budget; requiring the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped to receive a specified amount of funding each year;
requiring the Department to disburse funds to the Maryland Library for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped; etc.
Authorizing the State Department of Education to include operating
funds for the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
in its budget; requiring the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped to receive a specified amount of funding each year;
requiring the Department to disburse funds to the Maryland Library for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped; etc.
Providing a grant to specified county boards of education in specified
fiscal years if total direct education aid in the current fiscal year is less
than in the prior fiscal year; and declaring it is the intent of the General
Assembly that no county board of education receive less State direct
education aid in the current fiscal year than in the prior fiscal year until
after the completion of a specified study.
Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the
Administrative Procedure Act.
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Regulations
SB0460
Criminal Law Person in a Position
of Authority - Sexual
Offenses With a
Minor
Senator Raskin
SB0463
Community
Colleges Developmental
Education Courses Student Credit
Hours
Senator Ferguson
SB0470
(HB0015)
Public School
Facilities Security
Improvements
Program
Senator Muse
SB0477
(HB0350)
Education - Talbot
County Board of
Education - Lease
of Public School
Facility
Procurement Maryland Funding
Accountability and
Transparency Act Revisions
Juvenile Law Prohibition Against
Continued Detention
Speech-Language
Pathologists License Renewal
Senator Colburn
SB0484
(HB0632)
SB0485
(HB0407)
SB0514
Altering a specified prohibition against a specified "person in a position
of authority" from engaging in specified conduct to prohibit a specified
person in a position of authority from engaging in sexual contact, a
sexual act, or vaginal intercourse with a minor who is at least 7 years
younger than the person in a position of authority and who the person in
a position of authority knows is or was enrolled or participating in the
institution, program, or activity at which the person in a position of
authority works; etc.
Altering the defined term of "student credit hours" as used in the
calculation of State aid for community colleges and Baltimore City
Community College; defining "developmental education course"; and
declaring that it is the intent of the General Assembly that any reduction
of State aid to the community colleges that results from the Act may not
be recouped by the community colleges through an increase in tuition or
fees charged for developmental education courses.
Establishing the Public School Facilities Security Improvements
Program; requiring the Interagency Committee on Public School
Construction to implement and administer the Program and to develop
procedures to provide grants to county boards to improve security in
public school facilities; authorizing the Interagency Committee to award
grants to improve security in public school facilities under specified
circumstances; requiring the Governor to provide a specified amount in
the State budget for the Program in fiscal year 2016; etc. MABE: No
Position
Authorizing the Talbot County Board of Education to lease a public
school facility to an organization that operates a community-based
educational and recreational program, subject to a specified
determination and specified limitations. MABE: No Position/Local
Senator Madaleno
Altering the information regarding State payments that a specified
searchable Web site is required to contain; and requiring the searchable
Web site to allow a user to compare data for multiple fiscal years and
access specified information regarding specified contracts.
Senator Forehand
Prohibiting the continued detention, beyond emergency detention, of a
child under the age of 14 years except under specified circumstances.
Senator Gladden
Requiring the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid
Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists to waive specified
continuing education requirements for the purpose of renewing a license
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Requirements National
Certification
SB0523
Task Force to Study
a Program for
Interest-Free Loans
to STEM College
Students in
Maryland
Senator Feldman
SB0534
Education - State
Grant to Counties
With Small and
Declining Student
Enrollment
Teachers'
Retirement and
Pension Systems Reemployment of
Retirees - Penalty
for Failure to Submit
Certification
Senator Edwards
Education Partnership for
Assessment of
Readiness for
College and
Careers (PARCC) Implementation
Timeline
Education Evaluation of
Teachers and
Principals Implementation
Timeline
Child Abuse and
Neglect - Failure to
Report and Training
Senator Reilly
SB0576
(HB0630)
SB0578
SB0579
SB0607
Senator JonesRodwell
to practice speech-language pathology for a licensee who holds a
license to practice speech-language pathology and a specified national
certification that is determined to be in good standing by the issuing
organization.
Establishing the Task Force to Study a Program for Interest-Free Loans
to STEM College Students in Maryland; providing for the composition,
cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the
Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the
reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study
and make recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the
Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor
and the General Assembly; etc.
Establishing eligibility for a county board of education to receive a
specified State grant; requiring a specified grant to be provided to
eligible county boards in specified fiscal years; declaring the intent of the
General Assembly; etc.
Altering the amount a local school system or the Maryland School for the
Deaf must pay as a penalty for failing to submit to the Board of Trustees
for the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Department
of Education within a specified period of time a specified certification
regarding specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the
Teachers' Pension System who are employed by a local school system
or the Maryland School for the Deaf and are exempt from a specified
retirement allowance offset.
Requiring each county board of education to determine the
implementation timeline for the Partnership for Assessment of
Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), notwithstanding any other
provision of law; and making the Act an emergency measure.
Senator Reilly
Requiring the State Board of Education to determine the implementation
timeline for the evaluation of teachers and principals in public schools in
the State, notwithstanding any other provision of law; and making the
Act an emergency measure.
Senator Shank
Requiring an agency that is participating in a child abuse or neglect
investigation and that has reasonable grounds to believe that a person
has failed to report child abuse as required under a specified provision of
law to file a specified complaint with a specified board, agency,
institution, or facility; requiring each health occupation board authorized
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SB0633
Maryland Education
Credit
Senator DeGrange
SB0635
Anne Arundel
County - School
Board - Membership
Senator Simonaire
SB0636
Anne Arundel
County Board of
Education - Method
for Selection of
Members (Listen to
the People Act of
2014)
Anne Arundel
County - Board of
Education Member Limitation on
Candidacy for Other
Elective Office
Teaching Fellows
for Maryland
Scholarship
Program
Senator Simonaire
Teachers and
Principals Performance
Evaluation Criteria -
Senator King
SB0637
SB0666
SB0676
to issue a license or certificate to adopt specified regulations regarding
training on the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect;
etc.
Providing a tax credit against the State income tax for contributions
made to specified student assistance organizations; requiring the
Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the
tax credit; requiring specified entities to submit an application to be a
student assistance organization on or before December 1 of each year;
establishing the Maryland Education Tax Credit Reserve Fund; applying
the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013; etc. MABE:
Oppose
Requiring that members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education
be elected and appointed, as specified; repealing provisions relating to a
retention election for specified appointed members of the county board;
establishing procedures for the election and appointment of members of
the county board; providing for a nonpartisan election for specified
members of the county board; providing for the termination of the terms
of specified members of the county board; providing for a delayed
effective date of the Act; etc. MABE: No Position/Local
Requiring that a question be placed on the ballot in Anne Arundel
County at the November general election of 2014 to determine the
sense of the voters of the County on the issue of changing the method of
selecting members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education; and
providing for the carrying out of the straw ballot. MABE: No
Position/Local
Senator Simonaire
Prohibiting a member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education
from being a candidate for election to a municipal, county, or State office
during the 2-year period immediately following the conclusion of the term
to which the member was appointed; and applying the Act prospectively.
Senator Pinsky
Renaming the Maryland Teacher Scholarship to be the Teaching
Fellows for Maryland scholarship and altering specified elements of the
scholarship program; altering the eligibility criteria and service obligation
associated with the scholarship; altering the amount of the award for a
scholarship to be 100% of the annual tuition, mandatory fees, and room
and board at specified institutions; requiring institutions that enroll at
least 15 scholarship recipients to develop and implement a specified
honors program; etc.
Renaming specified model performance evaluation criteria; prohibiting
specified performance evaluation criteria from requiring the use of
specified student growth data before the 2016-2017 school year; and
prohibiting a county board of education from being required to adopt
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Use of Student
Growth Data
specified model performance evaluation criteria.
SB0679
Task Force on
CommunityPartnered School
Mental Health
Senator Conway
SB0685
Family Law - Child
Abuse and Neglect Provision of
Information to
Health Care
Provider
Education - Children
With Disabilities Habilitative Services
Information
Baltimore City - 10Year Plan for Public
School Facilities Neighborhood
Revitalization and
Community
Development
Task Force to Study
Chronic
Absenteeism in
Maryland's Public
Schools
Senator Zirkin
Child Care Centers Healthy Eating and
Physical Activity Act
Senator Ferguson
SB0701
(HB0798)
SB0714
(HB1062)
SB0715
(HB0869)
SB0716
Senator Madaleno
Senator Ferguson
Senator Ferguson
Establishing the Task Force on Community-Partnered School Mental
Health; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task
Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving certain
compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses;
requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding
the provision and financing of community-partnered school mental health
programs and services; etc.
Requiring the State Department of Human Resources or a local
department of social services to notify the primary care physician of a
child or a health care provider who is providing ongoing care to a child of
specified information; requiring the Department or local department to
provide to the physician or provider specified information if requested by
the physician or provider; etc.
Requiring a local school system to provide to the parents of a child with
a disability verbal and written information about access to habilitative
services at specified times.
Stating a specified finding of the General Assembly; requiring the
Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to provide specified
information to specified residents and community leaders; requiring the
Board to provide an opportunity to specified individuals to coordinate
specified efforts with a specified design team; requiring a specified
committee to provide an opportunity to specified individuals to
communicate specified efforts to a specified committee; etc.
Establishing the Task Force to Study Chronic Absenteeism in Maryland's
Public Schools; requiring the Task Force to collect and analyze specified
data, evaluate local and national strategies and best practices to
address chronic absenteeism, identify responses to chronic absenteeism
that rely on prevention and intervention, and make specified
recommendations; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and
recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or
before December 1, 2014; etc.
Requiring the rules and regulations for licensing and operating child care
centers to require child care centers providing care to children under the
age of 1 year to have in attendance an individual who has had specified
breast-feeding education and training; requiring the regulations to
contain specified provisions as to beverages served by a child care
center to children in the child care center's care; requiring the regulations
to require a child care center to adopt limits on screen time; etc.
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SB0717
(HB0783)
Task Force to Study
School-Based
Health Centers
Senator Ferguson
SB0719
County Boards of
Education Professional
Development
Evaluation Systems
Senator Ferguson
SB0726
Education - State
Funding - Operating
and Capital Funds
Senator Madaleno
SB0738
Open Meetings Act Public Body Definition
Education - General
Assembly
Scholarships Modification of
Programs
Senator Kittleman
Anne Arundel
County Superintendent of
Schools Compensation
Food Service
Facilities - Meals for
Children
Juveniles - Transfer
Determinations Confinement in
Juvenile Facilities
Senator Astle
SB0739
SB0747
(HB0087)
SB0750
SB0757
Senator Kittleman
Senator Pugh
Senator McFadden
Establishing the Task Force to Study School-Based Health Centers;
providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force;
prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified
compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses;
requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding
policies for the integration and sustainability of School-Based Health
Centers in the State; etc.
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement
professional development evaluation systems that are based on teacher
feedback and will enable the county board to assess teacher satisfaction
and measure the effectiveness and relevancy of the activity; requiring
each county board to report annually the results to the State Department
of Education; requiring the Department to report annually to the
Governor and General Assembly; etc.
Requiring that specified county boards of education receive the
Geographic Cost of Education Index adjustment; repealing specified
provisions that phased in a specified adjustment in specified fiscal years
and allowed for the reduction of a specified adjustment under specified
circumstances; establishing a specified amount of capital funding for the
public school construction or capital improvement program in specified
fiscal years; etc.
Altering the definition of "public body" for the purposes of the Open
Meetings Act to include a multimember subcommittee of a standing
committee of either house of the General Assembly.
Altering the Senatorial and Delegate Scholarship Programs to require
that the money appropriated under the programs be awarded by the
Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education
Commission; requiring the Office to ensure that the awards are
distributed in a specified manner and that specified student populations
are served; requiring the Office to adopt specified guidelines; etc.
Prohibiting the Anne Arundel County Board of Education from paying
monetary compensation to the county superintendent of schools for sick
leave benefits earned in a specified manner.
Limiting the types of beverages that a food service facility may include in
the price of specified menu options or meals; and authorizing a food
service facility to offer specified beverages to minors for a charge.
Requiring a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a
child, or the District Court at a bail review or preliminary hearing, to order
a child to be held in a secure juvenile facility pending a transfer
determination except under specified circumstances; and requiring the
District Court at a bail review or preliminary hearing to order that a
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specified study be made under specified circumstances.
SB0766
(HB0854)
Higher Education College Admissions
Outreach Program
for High-Achieving
Students Establishment
Senator Madaleno
SB0777
Driver's Education Income Tax Credit Assessment of Fees
for Driving Offenses
Senator
Montgomery
SB0779
Education - Due
Process Hearings
for Children With
Disabilities - Burden
of Proof
Senator
Montgomery
SB0794
(HB0794)
Department of
Planning - Maryland
Unaccompanied
Homeless Youth
and Young Adult
Count
Demonstration
Project
Digital Equity for All
Maryland Students
Act of 2014
Senator Reilly
Early-In Early-Out
Education Act of
2014
Senator Rosapepe
SB0821
SB0822
Senator Rosapepe
Establishing the College Admissions Outreach Program for HighAchieving Students; requiring the Maryland Higher Education
Commission and the Maryland State Department of Education, in
collaboration with specified educational officials, agencies, and
organizations, to jointly administer the Program; providing that the
Program shall provide specified information on the college admissions
process to specified students free of charge; etc.
Allowing an individual to claim a specified credit against the State
income tax for specified driver education costs paid for a child, stepchild,
or legal ward who is eligible to receive free meals at school; requiring the
Motor Vehicle Administration to assess specified fees on specified
licensees convicted of specified driving offenses; establishing the
Driver's Education Fund to pay for the tax credit under the Act; etc.
Requiring specified public agencies to bear a specified burden of proof
in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the
provision of a free appropriate public education to children with
disabilities; and establishing that a specified provision of law is not
intended to change specified record keeping requirements or what
constitutes a free and appropriate public education under federal law.
Requiring the Department of Planning to select a coordinating entity to
oversee the Maryland Unaccompanied Homeless Youth and Young
Adult Count Demonstration Project; establishing the purpose of the
Project; requiring the coordinating entity to be selected through a
competitive request for proposal or by sole source contract; requiring the
coordinating entity to determine the number and characteristics of
unaccompanied homeless youth and young adults in specified
jurisdictions using specified methods; etc.
Requiring all students to have specified access to digital technology in
the classroom on or before the 2016-2017 school year; establishing a
Technology Infrastructure Improvement Program to be administered by
the Interagency Committee on School Construction; requiring the State
to distribute grants from a specified source to county school boards;
authorizing the grant amount to be apportioned between specified
sources; requiring the Interagency Committee to make specified
considerations when allocating a specified grant; etc.
Including students who graduated from high school before grade 12 in
the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" for the purpose of
specified State education aid calculations; restricting the use of specified
funds for the purpose of expanding prekindergarten programs for
specified children; etc.
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SB0847
(HB0157)
SB0857
(HB0922)
SB0866
SB0870
SB0876
(HB0811)
SB0901
(HB1034)
SB0910
(HB1001)
Open Meetings Act Advance Notice of
Meeting - Agenda
Task Force to Study
a Funding Formula
for Corollary Athletic
Programs
Senator Kittleman
Education Suspension and
Expulsion Restrictions and
Alternative
Disciplinary Options
Criminal Law - Drug
Paraphernalia Near
School Property Penalties
Education - Summer
Career Academy
Pilot Program
Senator Benson
Queen Anne's
County - School
Buses - Length of
Operation
Education - Federal
Elementary and
Secondary
Education Act Waivers
Senator Hershey
Senator Kasemeyer
Senator Benson
Senator Klausmeier
Senator Madaleno
Requiring a public body to include an agenda containing specified
information in the advance notice of a meeting held by a specified public
body.
Establishing the Task Force to Study a Funding Formula for Corollary
Athletic Programs; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of
the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving
specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified
expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make
recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the Task Force
to report its findings and recommendations on or before a specified date;
etc.
Prohibiting specified school principals from suspending specified
students or recommending specified students for expulsion unless the
student commits a specified act or a specified offense under specified
circumstances; requiring specified principals to use specified alternative
disciplinary options in lieu of suspensions unless the student committed
a specified act or a specified offense; etc.
Prohibiting a person from committing a specified crime relating to the
delivery or sale of drug paraphernalia in a specified school vehicle or in,
on, or within 1,000 feet of specified real property used for elementary or
secondary education; establishing a penalty; etc.
Establishing the Summer Career Academy Pilot Program and identifying
the purpose of the Program; requiring the State Department of
Education to develop criteria for the selection of eligible school systems
and eligible students for participation in the Program; authorizing the
State Superintendent of Schools to select up to four school systems to
participate in the Program; requiring a student selected to participate in
the Program to be assigned a summer career counselor and to receive a
$4,500 stipend; etc.
Altering the length of time a school bus may be operated in Queen
Anne's County.
Requiring a waiver from the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act requested by the State Department of Education to the
United States Department of Education to be consistent with State law
and regulations; requiring the Department to adopt regulations
establishing the provisions of a waiver before requesting a waiver;
requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to submit a detailed
description of how a waiver is consistent with State law and regulations;
etc.
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SB0911
Education Performance
Evaluation Criteria Default Model
Senator Madaleno
SB0914
Family Law Protecting the
Resources of
Children in State
Custody
Senator Raskin
SB0927
Supplemental Public
School Construction
Matching Fund
Program
Senator Raskin
SB0933
Public School
Employees Service or
Representation
Fees - Local
Discretion
Senator Getty
Clarifying that the model performance evaluation criteria adopted by the
State Board of Education for the evaluation of teachers and principals
are the default criteria to be used in the instance that a local school
system and the exclusive employee representative fail to mutually agree
to performance evaluation criteria.
Requiring the Department of Human Resources to serve in a fiduciary
capacity for children in its custody; requiring the Department, in any
action, service, or decision on behalf of a child in its custody, to protect
and serve the best interest of the child; prohibiting the Department from
imposing a debt obligation on a child in its custody or taking any other
action that requires the child to pay for the child's own care or custody;
etc.
Establishing the Supplemental Public School Construction Matching
Fund Program; providing for the purpose of the Program and requiring
the Department of Budget and Management to implement and
administer the Program; establishing specified requirements a county
must meet to be eligible for the Program; requiring the Department to
provide to each county that is eligible for the Program up to $20,000,000
of State funding each fiscal year to be used to fund the cost of public
school construction projects; etc.
Repealing specified provisions requiring public school employers in all
jurisdictions of the State to negotiate with specified employee
organizations regarding service or representation fees charged to
nonmembers; and limiting the application of specified provisions of law
regarding the negotiation and charging of service or representation fees.
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