2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
Bill Number Title Primary Status Original Opposite (Cross File) Sponsor House House MABE Committee(s) Committee(s) Position and and Hearing Dates Hearing Dates HB0001 / CH000 Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Delegate Approved by the Judiciary Judicial
4 Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act) - Authorizing a court, under Dumais Governor - Chapter 4 1/18/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings (SB0002 / CH0 certain circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted p.m. 003) of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; prohibiting the court No Position from terminating parental rights under certain circumstances; specifying that a termination of parental rights under the Act terminates completely certain rights and the parent's responsibility to support the child, including payment of child support; etc. HB0010 State Lottery - Unclaimed Prizes - Public Prekindergarten Programs - Delegate Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Requiring the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, at the end Walker p.m. 1/17/2018 - 1:00 Support of each fiscal year, to remit money in the unclaimed prize fund to the Comptroller p.m. for distribution to each county board of education in the State on a pro rata basis determined by the total lottery sales made in each county; requiring that a county board of education use distributions from the fund for public prekindergarten programs; etc. HB0016 Community Colleges - Maryland Community College Promise Scholarships - Delegate Third Reading Passed Ways and Means
Establishing a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship program; Turner (93-38) 1/25/2018 - 1:00 No Position requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher p.m. Education Commission to publicize the availability of certain scholarships; requiring the Office to annually select and offer a certain scholarship award to certain eligible applicants; requiring the Higher Education Commission to report to the General Assembly by December 1, 2020 and each December 1 thereafter on certain matters related to the program; etc.
HB0023 Baltimore County - Public Schools - Active Assailant Event Training and Delegate Long Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 Ways and Means Drills - Requiring the Baltimore County Superintendent of Schools to conduct p.m. 2/1/2018 - 2:00 Local active assailant event training for school personnel in Baltimore County each p.m. school year; requiring the Baltimore County Superintendent to require certain public schools to hold an active assailant event drill three times each school year; requiring certain training and drills to comply with guidelines established by the United States Department of Homeland Security or be consistent with available best practices; etc.
HB0030 Domestic Violence - Education and Definition of Abuse - Requiring the State Delegate Angel Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Judiciary Judicial Board of Education to encourage county boards of education to incorporate age- p.m. 1/18/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings No Position appropriate lessons on domestic violence into a certain curriculum; altering the p.m. 3/28/2018 - 1:00 definition of "abuse" for purposes of certain provisions of law relating to domestic p.m. violence to include harassment and malicious destruction of property; and defining harassment and malicious destruction of property. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0049 General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Foster Care Month - Delegate Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 Health and
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim May as Foster Care Month; and Wilson p.m. Government No Position requiring the proclamation to urge residents of Maryland to volunteer their talents Operations and energies on behalf of children in foster care, foster parents, and child welfare 3/14/2018 - 1:00 professionals. p.m.
HB0062 Procurement Contracts - Gender Wage Gap Reporting - Providing for the Delegate Angel Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 Health and application of the Act to certain procurements; requiring bidders or offerors to p.m. Government No Position report the difference between the mean and median wages of male employees Operations and female employees when submitting a bid or an offer on a procurement 1/18/2018 - 1:00 contract to a unit of State or local government; requiring bidders or offerors to p.m. submit the number of employees used for the determination of gender wage gap calculations; etc. HB0074 Education - Career Exploration and Development Activities - Coffee (Java Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health,
Act) - Repealing a certain termination provision relating to prohibiting an Grammer Passed 2/1/2018 - 2:00 and Environmental No Position Executive Branch agency from banning or regulating the sale of coffee in p.m. Affairs conjunction with a career exploration and development activity in certain public 3/28/2018 - 1:00 high schools. p.m.
HB0076 Baltimore County Board of Education - Education Transparency Act Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means
Requiring that certain actions of the Baltimore County Board of Education be Grammer Passed 2/1/2018 - 2:00 Local taken at a public meeting; requiring that any action of the county board be p.m. recorded by a verbal roll call vote of certain members of the county board; requiring the county board to keep a formal record of certain public meetings; requiring that any action of the county board be made publicly available on the county board's website within 12 hours of the time the action was taken; etc. HB0087 Baltimore County Board of Education - Nonstudent Members – Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health,
Compensation and Student Member Scholarships - Increasing from $100 to Ebersole Passed 2/1/2018 - 2:00 and Environmental Local $7,500 the amount of compensation of the nonstudent members of the Baltimore p.m. Affairs County Board of Education; and providing that the Act does not apply to the 3/21/2018 - 1:00 compensation of the nonstudent members of the county board during a term of p.m. office beginning before the effective date of the Act.
HB0098 Paid Leave Compromise Act of 2018 - Requiring certain employers with at least Speaker Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 Economic (SB0135) a certain number of employees to provide employees with paid time off that is p.m. Matters paid at the same wage rate as the employee normally earns and that may be 3/6/2018 - 1:00 No Position used by the employee for any reason; authorizing an employer to apply to the p.m. Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation for a certain waiver; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to create and make available a certain poster and notice; etc. HB0102 Criminal Gang Offenses – Penalties, Procedure, and Elements - Providing Speaker Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 Judiciary (SB0198) that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a certain child alleged to p.m. 2/6/2018 - 1:00 have committed a certain criminal gang offense under certain circumstances; p.m. No Position altering penalties for certain criminal gang offenses; providing that certain sentences imposed shall be consecutive to certain sentences; altering the elements of a certain criminal gang offense; requiring certain local jurisdictions to use certain divested assets for certain purposes under certain circumstances; altering certain definitions; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0103 Education - County Boards of Education - Removal of County Delegate Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Superintendents - Authorizing certain county boards of education to remove a Atterbeary p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 Oppose county superintendent of schools for immorality, misconduct in office, p.m. insubordination, incompetency, or willful neglect of duty; requiring a county superintendent who has been removed to be compensated subject to the terms of a certain contract or, if no such terms exist, for the remainder of the county superintendent's term; etc. HB0112 Procurement - Responsible Bidders - Petition by Member of General Delegate Unfavorable Report Health and
Assembly - Authorizing a member of the General Assembly, within 60 days after Grammer by Health and Government Oppose a procurement contract is awarded, to petition the Board of Public Works to Government Operations determine whether the person awarded the contract is a responsible bidder and, if Operations; the Board determines the person awarded the contract is not a responsible Withdrawn bidder, to cancel the contract and instruct the procurement officer to award the contract in a certain manner.
HB0117 Baltimore City - Property Tax Credit - School Public Safety Officers - Delegate Glenn Returned Passed Ways and Means Budget and (SB0394) Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide, by law, a 1/30/2018 - 1:00 Taxation certain property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on a dwelling p.m. 3/20/2018 - 1:00 Local located in Baltimore City that is owned by a public safety officer employed by the p.m. Baltimore City Public School System; and applying the Act to taxable years after June 30, 2018. HB0118 Vehicle Laws – Drivers’ Education Schools – Age of Instruction Vehicles - Delegate Unfavorable Report Environment and
Prohibiting the use of a vehicle that is older than 10 model years for instruction in McConkey by Environment and Transportation No Position a drivers' school. Transportation; Withdrawn HB0120 Property Tax Credit - Education Tax Relief for Elderly Individuals - Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of Knotts by Ways and Means; a county to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the portion of the county Withdrawn No Position property tax that is used to fund the county board of education and is imposed on real property that is owned by and used as the principal residence of an individual who is at least 65 years old; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to provide for certain matters relating to the tax credit; etc. HB0138 Assembly Areas - State-Funded Construction or Renovation - Assistive Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations
(SB1080) Listening System Requirement - Requiring certain recipients of State funds to Knotts by Appropriations; install an assistive listening system in an assembly area during construction or Withdrawn No Position renovation of the assembly area under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of General Services to establish a certain waiver process and a certain penalty process relating to the requirement to install an assistive listening system in an assembly area during construction or renovation of the assembly area; authorizing the Department to adopt certain regulations; etc. HB0150 Montgomery County Board of Education Compensation Commission MC 1- Montgomery Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, 18 - Establishing the Montgomery County Board of Education Compensation County 2/1/2018 - 2:00 and Environmental
Local Commission to study the salaries of the members of the Montgomery County Delegation p.m Affairs Board of Education; providing for the membership, appointment, removal, terms, 3/21/2018 - 1:00 chair, meeting requirements, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the p.m. Commission to issue a report and make recommendations to the members of the 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
Montgomery County delegation to the General Assembly regarding the compensation of the members of the Board by September 1, 2019, and every 4 years thereafter; etc. HB0154 State Board of Education - Membership - Teachers and Parent - Altering the Delegate Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 Ways and Means
(SB0739) membership of the State Board of Education to add two regular members who are Ebersole p.m. 2/1/2018 - 2:00 certified teachers and a parent of a student enrolled in a public school in the p.m. Oppose State; authorizing teacher members to be appointed to the State Board although the individuals are subject to the authority of the State Board; requiring the Governor to appoint certain teacher members with the advice and consent of the Senate from a certain list submitted to the Governor by the State Department of Education after election by teachers in the State; etc.
HB0156 Talbot County Board of Education – Start Date of Term for Members - Delegate Mautz Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0171) Altering the date for the start of the term for a member elected to serve on the 2/1/2018 - 2:00 and Environmental Talbot County Board of Education from January 1 to December 1 after the p.m. Affairs Local member's election.
HB0160 Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2019) - Making the proposed appropriations contained Speaker First Reading Appropriations (SB0185) in the State Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, in accordance with Appropriations Article III, Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc. Support w/ Amendments
HB0161 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2018 - Authorizing or altering the Speaker Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Appropriations (SB0187) distribution of certain revenue; altering or repealing certain required p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 appropriations; repealing a requirement that the Comptroller pay certain amounts p.m. from a certain Special Fund for a certain purpose; reducing the maximum amount Oppose of certain teacher or school employee stipends; providing a certain amount of aid to certain institutions of higher education in accordance with a certain action by the Board of Public Works; altering certain rate increases for community service providers; etc.
HB0162 Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of Speaker First Reading Appropriations (SB0186) 2018, and the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 2007, 2010, Appropriations 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 -Authorizing the creation of a Support w/ State Debt in the amount of $1,000,179,000, the proceeds to be used for certain Amendments necessary building, construction, demolition, planning, renovation, conversion, replacement, and capital equipment purchases of the State, for acquiring certain real estate in connection therewith, and for grants to certain subdivisions and other organizations for certain development and improvement purposes, subject to certain requirements; etc. HB0168 State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Chair, Health Returned Passed Health and Education, Health, Speech-Language Pathologists - Inactive Status of Licenses - Requiring the and Government and Environmental No Position State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech- Government Operations Affairs Language Pathologists to place a licensee on inactive status for not more than 2 Operations 2/1/2018 - 1:00 3/22/2018 - 1:00
years under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to provide a certain Committee p.m. p.m. licensee with written notification of certain information; prohibiting a licensee on inactive status from practicing audiology, hearing aid dispensing, or speech- language pathology; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0170 Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 - Public School Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations
(SB0188) Construction Program - Baltimore City Heating and Ventilation Projects - Lewis, R. by Appropriations; Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 to expand a Withdrawn Local statement of intent of the General Assembly requiring that certain funds from the fiscal 2017 Statewide Contingency are to be used for heating and ventilation projects in Baltimore City Public Schools.
HB0174 Election Law - Local Public Campaign Financing – Expansion - Altering a Delegate Moon Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0375) certain provision of law to authorize the governing body of a county to establish, p.m. 1/30/2018 - 1:00 by law, a system of public campaign financing for certain additional elective p.m. Local offices. HB0184 Prince George's County Public Schools - Office of Inspector General - Prince Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health, Establishment PG 508-18 - Establishing the Office of the Inspector General in George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Local the Prince George's County public school system to provide independent County p.m. Affairs
evaluation and recommendations to improve the effectiveness, productivity, or Delegation 3/28/2018 - 1:00 efficiency of local school system programs, policies, practices and operations; p.m. requiring the Prince George's County Council to appoint the Inspector General; requiring the Inspector General to coordinate with the Prince George's County public school system to develop a certain work plan and establish certain goals and priorities; etc. HB0185 Prince George’s County Board of Education – Students With a Disability in Prince Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Prince George’s County Public Schools – Report PG 506–18 - Requiring the George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Local Prince George's County Board of Education to gather certain information about County p.m.
students with a disability in each public school in Prince George's County; Delegation requiring the county board to study certain matters regarding students with a disability in Prince George's County public schools; and requiring the county board to report its findings to the Prince George's County Delegation to the General Assembly on or before January 20, 2019. HB0186 Prince George's County Board of Education - Election of Vice Chair and Prince Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health, Voting Procedures PG 507-18 - Repealing certain authority of the Prince George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Local George's County Executive to appoint a vice chair of the Prince George's County County p.m. Affairs
Board of Education; requiring the elected members of the county board to elect a Delegation 3/28/2018 - 1:00 vice chair of the county board from among the elected members of the county p.m. board; and altering the percentage of the voting members of the county board from two-thirds to three-fifths that is required to take action that is contrary to an action of the Chief Executive Officer of the Prince George's County public school system. HB0193 High School Diploma by Examination - Eligibility Requirements – Exemption Chair, Returned Passed Economic Finance (SB0043) - Exempting an individual from the requirement to not be subject to compulsory Economic Matters 3/28/2018 - 1:00 school attendance and to have withdrawn from school in order to be eligible to Matters 2/13/2018 - 1:00 p.m.
Support obtain a high school diploma by examination if the individual participates in a GED Committee p.m. Education, Health, Option Program administered by the State Department of Education that creates Ways and Means and Environmental a pathway to a high school diploma by examination for certain currently enrolled Affairs high school English language learner students under the age of 21 years. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0195 Prince George's County - School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2018 PG Prince Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0473) 512-18 - Establishing the Prince George's County Public School Facility George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 Construction Innovation Incentive Program to encourage the Prince George's County p.m.
Local County public school system to pursue innovative public school facility Delegation construction projects by certain means; specifying a certain percentage increase in the State share of eligible costs for certain projects that are approved to participate in the Incentive Program; exempting alternative financing methods used in Prince George's County from certain requirements; etc. HB0196 Prince George's County Board of Education - Academic Revitalization and Prince Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means Management Effectiveness Initiative - Repeal PG 511-18 - Revising the George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 Local composition of the Prince George's County Board of Education from an elected County p.m.
and appointed board to an elected board; decreasing the number of members on Delegation the county board from 14 to 10; altering the method by which a vacancy on the county board is filled; repealing certain provisions relating to the position, powers, and responsibilities of the Chief Executive Officer of the Prince George's County public school system; etc. HB0197 Education - State Reimbursement for County Board Payments for Exams for Delegate Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health,
Eligible Students - Requiring the State to reimburse a county board for certain Luedtke p.m. (Education, 2/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental payments on a certain application for reimbursement; requiring a county board to Health, and p.m. Affairs Support pay up to $300 for one certain exam per school year for certain students; Environmental Affairs) 3/28/2018 - 1:00 requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations; etc. p.m. Budget and Taxation HB0207 Prince George's County Board of Education - Governance PG 509-18 - Prince Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to select the chair and George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 Local vice chair of the county board; repealing the authority of the Prince George's County p.m.
County Executive to appoint the chair and vice chair of the county board; requiring Delegation the county board to select and appoint the Chief Executive Officer of the Prince George's County public school system; and repealing the authority of the County Executive to select the Chief Executive Officer. HB0211 Prince George's County Board of Education - Teachers and Administrators - Prince Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Child Protective Services Investigation Findings PG 510-18 - Requiring the George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Local Prince George's County Board of Education to require certain public schools or County p.m.
units of the public school system to accept, for employment and work assignment Delegation purposes, a final finding made by Child Protective Services resulting from an investigation of a certain teacher or administrator for the alleged abuse or neglect of a public school student. HB0214 Prince George's County - Equality in Education Act PG 505-18 - Requiring a Prince Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means public charter school in Prince George's County that requires students to wear a George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 school uniform to choose a uniform that may be purchased from more than one County p.m. Local
vendor or store; requiring certain public charter schools to establish a process to Delegation accommodate a family who may require financial assistance in obtaining a school uniform; requiring each public charter school to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to make certain equipment and supplies available and affordable to students; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0215 Prince George’s County – Elementary School – Limit on Class Size PG 501– Prince Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means 18 - Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to limit to 30 or George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Local fewer the number of students assigned to a classroom teacher of students in County p.m.
kindergarten through grade 3 in the public schools in the county. Delegation HB0216 Prince George's County Board of Education - Student Hearing and Vision Prince Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Screenings - Reporting Requirements PG 504-18 - Requiring the Prince George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Local George's County Board of Education to report to the Maryland Department of County p.m.
Health the number of students who did not receive the recommended services Delegation after failing a hearing or vision screening and the reason why; requiring the county board to develop a written strategy to increase the number of students receiving the recommended services after failing a hearing or vision screening; and requiring the county board to report annually on its progress in meeting certain goals to certain county officials and representatives. HB0221 Local Government – School Construction – Permits - Requiring each county Delegate Returned Passed Appropriations Budget and
or municipality to expedite the process for the application and issuance of a Bromwell 2/6/2018 - 1:00 Taxation Support permit related to or required for the construction of public or private school p.m. 3/22/2018 - 1:00 facilities. p.m. HB0223 Howard County - Transfer Tax Exemption and Rate Reduction - Teachers Howard County Returned Passed Ways and Means Budget and
Ho. Co. 13-18 - Exempting from the Howard County transfer tax the sale of Delegation 1/30/2018 - 1:00 Taxation Local residential real property to certain teachers if the teacher is a first-time home p.m. 3/20/2018 - 1:00 buyer in Howard County; establishing a maximum transfer tax rate of 0.7% in p.m. Howard County for the sale of residential real property to certain teachers under certain circumstances; providing for the recapture of the transfer tax exempted or reduced under the Act under certain circumstances; etc. HB0226 Public Schools - Sprinkler Systems – Required - Requiring that a sprinkler Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations
(SB0483) system that meets certain requirements be installed in each public school building Ebersole by Appropriations; 2/6/2018 - 1:00 in the State; and providing for the application of certain provisions of law. Withdrawn p.m. Oppose
HB0228 Child Care Centers - Definition of Child Care - Adding a definition of the term Delegate Rey Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means "child care" to certain provisions of law relating to child care centers in the State; p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position defining "child care" as the care or supervision of a child when the child's parent p.m. has given the child's care over to another individual for some portion of a 24-hour day as a supplement to the parent's primary care of the child; etc. HB0235 Prince George's County - School Facilities Surcharge - Affordable Housing Prince First Reading Senate Environment and Requirement (The Affordable Housing Act of 2018) PG 414-18 - Establishing George's Rules Transportation Local that certain exemptions from and reductions of the school facilities surcharge on County 3/14/2018 - 1:00
certain residential construction in Prince George's County do not apply unless at Delegation p.m. least 20% of the construction is designated as affordable housing for residents whose income does not exceed 80% of the Area Median Income for Prince George's County established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. HB0241 Prince George’s County – Telecommunications Transmission Facility on Prince Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Public School Grounds – Public Hearing and Notification PG 513–18 - George's p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Local Requiring a telecommunications company proposing to install a County p.m.
telecommunications transmission facility on public school grounds owned by the Delegation 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
Prince George's County Board of Education to hold a certain public hearing before the school system's Chief Executive Officer executes a certain notice to proceed; and requiring the telecommunications company to provide, publish, and mail certain notice of the hearing.
HB0251 Education - Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum - Boundaries and Delegate Kelly Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0402) Consent - Requiring a county board of education to provide age-appropriate 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental instruction on the meaning of "consent" and respect for personal boundaries as p.m. Affairs No Position part of the Family Life and Human Sexuality curriculum in all grades in which the curriculum is taught in public schools in the county beginning in the 2018-2019 school year. HB0281 Education - Computer Science - Curriculum and Professional Development Delegate Miller, Conference Ways and Means Education, Health,
(Securing the Future: Computer Science Education for All) - Requiring county A. Committee Appointed 2/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support w/ boards to require public high schools to offer a certain computer science course p.m. Affairs Amendments beginning in the 2021-2022 school year; establishing the Maryland Center for 3/21/2018 - 1:00 Computing Education; requiring the Center to develop a certain plan, provide p.m. certain professional development and programs, and administer a certain grant program; establishing the Computing Education and Professional Development Fund to support the activities of the Center and provide grants; etc. HB0285 Department of Transportation – Pedestrian and Bicycle Access to Public Delegate Returned Passed Environment and Finance
Schools – Study - Requiring the Department of Transportation to study Luedtke Transportation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 pedestrian and bicycle access to public schools in the State and make 2/8/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position recommendations for addressing the safety concerns identified in the study; p.m. requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2020;
HB0313 Education - Commemoration - Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 - Delegate Mautz Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Requiring public schools to devote a part of the school day to appropriate p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 exercises that commemorate various days, including the terrorist attacks of p.m. No Position September 11, 2001. HB0315 State Department of Education – Breakfast and Lunch Programs – Funding Delegate Passed Enrolled Ways and Means Budget and
(Maryland Cares for Kids Act) - Repealing the requirement that the State Board Hixson 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Taxation of Education adopt and publish standards for the administration of a subsidized p.m. 3/28/2018 - 1:00 Support feeding program; requiring the State to be responsible for the student share of the p.m. costs of breakfasts and lunches provided to students eligible for certain federal Education, Health, reduced price programs; prohibiting a county board of education and nonprofit and Environmental nonpublic school from charging students eligible for reduced price meals; altering Affairs the calculation for the reimbursement for certain meals to county boards of education and to nonprofit nonpublic schools; etc. HB0319 Juvenile Law - Truancy - Affirmative Defense - Altering the application of a Delegate Conference Judiciary Judicial
(SB0160) certain affirmative defense to certain charges relating to truancy to be statewide. Sydnor Committee Appointed 2/1/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings p.m. No Position HB0328 Family Law - Domestic Violence - Definition of Abuse - Altering the definition Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB0121) of "abuse" for purposes of certain provisions of law relating to domestic violence Dumais by Judiciary; 2/1/2018 - 1:00 to include misuse of telephone facilities and equipment, misuse of electronic Withdrawn p.m. No Position 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
communication or interactive computer service, revenge porn, and visual surveillance.
HB0329 Somerset County - Community College - Eligibility of Students to Pay No Delegate Otto Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0007) Tuition or Fees - Providing that certain students residing in Somerset County p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00 may enroll full time in certain community colleges and pay no tuition or fees for up p.m. to 3 years if certain conditions are met; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Local Commission to pay 100% of in-county tuition and fees for certain eligible students; requiring that certain student financial aid be applied to pay an eligible student's tuition and fees before determining the amount required to be paid by the Commission; etc.
HB0348 Commonsense Spending Act of 2018 - Providing that, beginning in fiscal year Speaker Unfavorable Report Appropriations (SB0293) 2020, any appropriation that increases by operation of law is required to have its by Appropriations 3/2/2018 - 1:00 mandated level of spending increased by the lesser of the amount of the existing p.m. Oppose formula calculation or 1% less than the amount of General Fund revenue growth in a certain report submitted by the Board of Revenue Estimates; providing that the General Assembly may not enact certain legislation that creates a certain mandated level of funding except under certain circumstances; etc.
HB0350 Achieving Computer Science Collaborations for Employing Students Speaker Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0300) Statewide (ACCESS) Act of 2018 - Requiring the State Board of Education to p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 develop and adopt content standards for computer science education in p.m. kindergarten through grade 12 by November 30, 2018; requiring the State Board Support w/ Amendments to consult with certain persons in developing certain standards; requiring the State Department of Education to develop a certain implementation plan; requiring high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools to offer certain computer science courses, education, or curricula beginning in certain school years; etc.
HB0351 Protect Our Students Act of 2018 - Requiring a certain educational Speaker Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0301) accountability program to include certain school quality indicators; altering the p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 maximum percentage of certain academic indicators in a certain composite score p.m. Oppose to be 80%; repealing a prohibition that certain indicators be weighted in a certain manner; etc.
HB0355 Accountability in Education Act of 2018 - Establishing the Education Speaker Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0302) Monitoring Unit in the State; providing that the Unit is an independent unit; p.m. (Ways and 3/1/2018 - 1:00 establishing the Investigator General Selection and Review Commission in the Means) p.m. Oppose Unit; requiring the Commission to appoint the Investigator General in accordance Appropriations with certain procedures; requiring the Unit to investigate certain complaints; requiring the Unit to establish an anonymous electronic tip program; requiring the Unit to submit an annual report by December 15 to the State Board, the Governor, and the General Assembly; etc. HB0356 General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Redistricting and Speaker Unfavorable Report Rules and (SB0307) Apportionment Commission - Prohibiting multimember delegate districts; by House Rules and Executive creating the General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Redistricting and Executive Nominations Apportionment Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to Nominations 2/26/2018 - 3:00 No Position create certain General Assembly legislative districts and congressional districts; p.m. establishing exclusive and original jurisdiction for the Court of Appeals to establish legislative districts and congressional districts under certain circumstances; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0363 More Jobs for Marylanders Act 2.0 - Altering the definition of "qualified Speaker Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0305) distressed county" by altering certain income levels in the definition and renaming p.m. 2/28/2018 - 1:00 it to be "Tier I county"; altering the scope of eligible projects for which a business p.m. No Position entity may apply to enroll in the More Jobs for Marylanders Program; altering the types of businesses authorized to receive certain credits and benefits under the Program; authorizing a certain county to select certain activities for eligibility for the Program; etc. HB0365 Income Tax - Personal Exemptions – Alteration - Altering the determination of Delegate Third Reading Passed Ways and Means Budget and (SB0184) the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain Walker (46-0) 2/7/2018 - 1:00 Taxation deduction under the Maryland income tax; and applying the Act to taxable years p.m. 3/20/2018 - 1:00 No Position beginning after December 31, 2017. p.m.
HB0366 Education - PARCC Testing - Children With Disabilities (Ben's Rule) - Delegate Vogt Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Authorizing a parent or guardian of a child with a disability who is nonverbal to p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 refuse to allow the child to participate in a Partnership for Assessment of p.m. No Position Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment or its equivalent in a public school; requiring documentation in the Individualized Education Program of a certain child of a certain refusal to participate in a PARCC assessment or its equivalent; etc.
HB0378 State Department of Education - Social Security Numbers of Students - Delegate Vogt Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Prohibiting the State Department of Education from collecting, holding, or storing by Education, Health, 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Oppose the Social Security numbers of current, former, or prospective students. and Environmental p.m. Affairs HB0387 Public Information Act - Suits Filed by Custodians – Prohibition - Prohibiting Delegate Miller, Unfavorable Report Health and
(SB0167) a custodian that receives a request from a person wishing to inspect a public A. by Health and Government record from filing suit under the Public Information Act against the requesting Government Operations person. Operations; No Position Withdrawn
HB0393 Elementary School Students - Daily Physical Activity (Student Health and Delegate Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Fitness Act) - Requiring a public school student in elementary school to be Walker p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Oppose provided a daily program of physical activity totaling 150 minutes each week to p.m. include physical education and developmentally appropriate, moderate-to-
vigorous activity, including recess; requiring that the program of physical activity for a certain category of student be consistent with the student's Individualized Education Plan; requiring public elementary schools to designate a physical activity leadership team to plan and coordinate certain activities; etc. HB0427 Public Schools – Student Sunscreen Use – Policy - Requiring each county Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0217) board of education to adopt a certain written policy to authorize a student to Young, K. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental possess and use sunscreen on school property or at a school-sponsored activity p.m. Affairs No Position without written permission from a health care provider; requiring a certain policy to allow certain public school employees to apply or assist a student in applying sunscreen under certain circumstances; providing that a student may only use sunscreen provided by the student's parent or guardian; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0428 Office of Legislative Audits - Baltimore County Public School System - Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations Special Audit - Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to conduct a special Grammer by Appropriations; 3/8/2018 - 1:00 Local comprehensive audit of the procurement practices and contracts of the Baltimore Withdrawn p.m. County public school system to determine whether certain acts occurred during the time period from January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2018, both inclusive; and requiring the audit to focus on certain procurement practices, certain contracts, interactions between certain persons and vendors, and compliance with certain ethics standards and requirements. HB0430 Education - Child Care Subsidies - Mandatory Funding Levels - Requiring the Delegate Jones Returned Passed Appropriations Budget and (SB0379) Governor to include in the State budget a certain appropriation to the Child Care 2/13/2018 - 1:00 Taxation Subsidy Program each fiscal year; requiring the Governor to appropriate funds in p.m. 3/28/2018 - 1:00 No Position the State budget to increase the Child Care Subsidy Program reimbursement p.m. rates to a certain amount in certain fiscal years; etc. HB0431 Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment Speaker Returned Passed Appropriations Finance (SB0308) Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018) - Establishing the Fostering 2/15/2018 - 3:00 3/27/2018 - 1:00 Employment Program to provide employment opportunities for certain foster care p.m. p.m. No Position recipients and unaccompanied homeless youth through training leading to certain credentials; requiring the Department of Human Services, in coordination with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, to develop and implement the Program and coordinate with local departments of social services and local workforce development boards; establishing certain eligibility requirements; etc. HB0432 Public Safety - Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Delegate Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 Appropriations Budget and (SB0545) Fund – Establishment - Establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Lierman p.m. 2/6/2018 - 1:00 Taxation Prevention Program Fund to provide funds to local governments to implement p.m. 3/27/2018 - 1:00 evidence-based or evidence-informed health programs and to evaluate the p.m. No Position efficacy of evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $5,000,000 to the Fund; establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Council; etc. HB0437 Baltimore City - Red Light and Speed Camera Fines - Grants to Schools Delegate Ali First Reading Environment and (Baltimore City Technology and Resource Act of 2018) - Requiring Baltimore Environment and Transportation City to use certain fines collected from violations enforced by certain traffic control Transportation and Ways and Means Local signal monitoring systems or speed monitoring systems to make grants to certain Ways and Means low-performing schools and schools that have not met certain academic standards; requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to establish a need-based formula for distributing grants; providing that after making grants of at least $25,000,000 in the aggregate, Baltimore City is not required to make additional grants; etc. HB0442 Education - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Instruction in Public Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Education, Health, Schools - Encouraging a county board of education to provide age-appropriate Queen by Education, Health, 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support as instruction on organ and tissue donation and registration in the public high and Environmental p.m. Affairs Amended schools in the county; specifying the purposes and goals of the instruction are to Affairs 3/21/2018 - 1:00 describe certain benefits, address the myths and misconceptions, and explain the p.m. options available to minors and adults related to organ and tissue donation; and encouraging nonpublic high schools to provide certain instruction on organ and tissue donation. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0454 Child Abuse and Neglect - Disclosure of Identifying Information and Delegate Moon Returned Passed Judiciary Judicial (SB0490) Investigations - Requiring a court to provide the Secretary of Health with 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings identifying information regarding an individual who has been convicted under p.m. No Position certain provisions of law of the murder, attempted murder, or manslaughter of a child; requiring a local department to open an investigation of child abuse or neglect if the local department is prevented from accessing a certain child while providing a certain assessment; etc. HB0462 Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Public School System – Delegate Ali Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means Reports - Requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to report p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 Local certain information relating to the Baltimore City Public School System to the p.m. Mayor of Baltimore City, the City Council of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Delegation to the General Assembly on or before December 1 each year. HB0479 Juvenile Law - Lead Testing and Behavioral Health Assessment - Requiring, Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB1066) instead of authorizing, the juvenile court to order a child to undergo blood lead Mosby by Judiciary 2/8/2018 - 1:00 level testing if the child's parent or guardian consents; requiring, instead of p.m. No Position authorizing, the juvenile court to direct the Department of Juvenile Services or another qualified agency to make a certain study concerning the child; requiring that, as part of the study, the Department conduct a comprehensive behavioral health assessment of the child; etc. HB0493 Teachers and Teacher Preparation Programs - Research-Based Reading Delegate Stein Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0638) Instruction - Requiring the Professional Standards and Teacher Education p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Board, on or before January 1, 2022, to require certain candidates for certification Oppose to pass a test of research-based reading instruction; requiring the Board and the State Board of Education jointly to select the test and set the passing score for the test, subject to a certain condition; requiring the Board and the State Board jointly to set standards for the delivery of research-based reading instruction by teacher preparation programs in the State; etc. HB0497 Health Occupations – Athletic Trainers Act – Revisions - Altering the Delegate Unfavorable Report Health and (SB0151) definition of "practice athletic training"; altering the composition of the Athletic Wilson by Health and Government Trainer Advisory Committee; specifying that certain members of the Committee Government Operations may be appointed from a certain list of individuals submitted to the State Board of Operations; 2/7/2018 - 1:00 No Position Physicians by a certain successor organization; requiring a licensed athletic Withdrawn p.m. trainer to practice athletic training in accordance with standards of practice established by certain organizations; etc. HB0500 Crimes - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Establishing that Delegate Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Judiciary (SB0132) certain persons who are required to provide certain notice or make certain reports Sanchez p.m. 2/8/2018 - 1:00 of suspected child abuse or neglect may not knowingly fail to give the notice or p.m. Support make the report if the person has actual knowledge of the abuse or neglect or witnesses the act of the abuse or neglect; establishing the misdemeanor of knowing failure to report child abuse or neglect under certain circumstances; and providing certain penalties for a violation of the Act. HB0503 State Department of Education - Translation Grant Program – Established - Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Education, Health, Establishing the Translation Grant Program in the State Department of Education Wilkins by Education, Health, 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental No Position to provide grants to public schools that are experiencing a significant number of p.m. Affairs requests to translate educational materials into a student's or parent's native 3/28/2018 - 1:00 language; requiring the Program to be a competitive grant program; requiring the p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
Department to establish application procedures and supervise the use of certain and Environmental funds; requiring the Governor to include at least $250,000 annually for the Affairs program beginning in fiscal year 2020; etc.
HB0505 Use of Public Funds - Playground and Athletic Field Surfaces - Preferences Delegate Miller, Hearing 2/08 at 2:00 (SB0763) and Prohibitions - Establishing a preference for the use of state-of-the-art A. p.m. Appropriations natural surface materials in any projects to construct playgrounds or athletic fields 2/8/2018 - 2:00 using public funds; prohibiting the use of State funds to finance any portion of a p.m. Oppose project to build a new, or replace an existing, playground or athletic field with a synthetic surface; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
HB0538 Environment - Expanded Polystyrene Food Service Products – Prohibition - Delegate Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Environment and (SB0651) Prohibiting a person from selling in the State a certain expanded polystyrene food Lierman p.m. (Environment Transportation service product on or after January 1, 2019; prohibiting certain food service and Transportation) 2/21/2018 - 1:00 No Position businesses and certain schools from selling or providing food in certain expanded p.m. polystyrene food service products on or after January 1, 2019; requiring a county Economic health department to impose certain penalties for violations of the Act; requiring a Matters county health department to notify the Department of the Environment of certain violations; etc. HB0544 Public and Nonpublic Schools - Classwork and Assessment Involving Live Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means (SB0369) and Dead Animals - Student Choice Policy - Authorizing a student in a public Robinson by Ways and Means; 2/15/2018 - 1:00 school or nonpublic school to choose not to participate in or observe, in whole or Withdrawn p.m. in part, classwork or an assessment that includes certain actions conducted on a Oppose certain animal; authorizing a student to choose not to participate in or observe the classwork or assessment at a certain time; requiring a certain student to complete the required classwork or assessment by a certain alternative educational method that meets certain requirements; etc. HB0547 Education - Head Start Program - Annual Appropriation - Requiring the Delegate First Reading Senate Appropriations (SB0373) Governor to include an appropriation of at least $3,000,000 for the Head Start Barron Rules 2/8/2018 - 2:00 Program in each annual budget submission. p.m. Support HB0552 Youth Sports Programs - Concussion Risk and Management Training – Delegate Hill Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0840) Requirements - Requiring the State Department of Education to educate, p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 instead of provide awareness to, coaches, school personnel, students, and the p.m. Oppose parents or guardians of students on certain matters relating to concussions and head injuries; requiring an individual who has completed concussion risk and management training or is a licensed health care provider to be responsible for on-site management of all concussion and head injuries during each practice and game, including certain decisions; etc. HB0553 County Boards of Education - Length of School Year – Adjustments - Delegate Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0729) Authorizing a county board of education to extend the length of the school year for Chang p.m. 2/15/2018 - 1:00 up to 5 days without approval from the State Board of Education; and requiring a p.m. Support county board to submit a written application to the State Board for permission to increase the length of the school year for more than a certain number of school days in accordance with a certain provision of law or to decrease the length of the school year. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0555 Juvenile Law - Records - Juveniles Charged as Adults - Establishing that, Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB0257) pending a determination by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case Sydnor by Judiciary; 2/8/2018 - 1:00 p.m. involving a child whether to transfer its jurisdiction to the juvenile court, provisions Withdrawn No Position of law relating to the confidentiality of juvenile records apply to all police records and court records concerning the child; and repealing provisions of law relating to the expungement of criminal charges transferred to the juvenile court. HB0557 Primary and Secondary Education - Education Trust Fund - Use of Fund - Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Appropriations Altering the allowable uses of the Education Trust Fund; defining "direct education Washington, M. p.m. (Appropriations) 3/8/2018 - 1:00 Support aid" as the total financial assistance provided by the State to a county board of p.m. education under certain programs; requiring the Governor to provide a certain Ways and Means annual appropriation to county boards of education from the Education Trust Fund beginning in fiscal year 2020; prohibiting money in the Education Trust Fund from being used to supplant required funding for certain programs and formulas; etc. HB0568 Education - Student Data Governance - Requiring the State Department of Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, Education, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology and Kaiser 2/22/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support county boards of education, to develop and update certain best practices for p.m. Affairs certain county boards on data governance policies and procedures and for certain 3/21/2018 - 1:00 professional development; requiring the State Department of Education to p.m. develop certain strategies to coordinate and assist certain data governance staff to implement certain practices; etc. HB0600 Child Abuse and Neglect – Training - Requiring that each health practitioner, Delegate First Reading Judicial Judiciary Judicial (SB0131) police officer, educator, and human service worker in the State receive periodic McComas Proceedings 2/8/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings training on the obligation to report child abuse and neglect and on the p.m. Support identification of abused and neglected children; etc. HB0617 Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees - Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0562) Authorizing the principal of a public school to select any employee to administer Ebersole 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental certain assessments. p.m. Affairs No Position as Amended HB0621 Carroll County - Board of Education - Student Representative - Providing a Carroll County Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0359) scholarship for the student representative of the Carroll County Board of Delegation 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Education; specifying that a student who completes a full term on the county p.m. Affairs Local board is entitled to a scholarship of $3,500; requiring the scholarship to be used for certain purposes and to be paid directly to a certain institution; providing that the scholarship may not be considered compensation for certain purposes; allowing the student representative to be reimbursed for certain expenses; etc. HB0622 Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Sickle Cell Disease Management Delegate Passed Enrolled Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0161) Programs - Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Patterson 2/15/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Department of Health to establish certain guidelines for certain employees to p.m. Affairs Support utilize in the management of a student's sickle cell disease while the student is on the premises of a public or nonpublic school during certain hours and at school-
sponsored activities, in collaboration with certain individuals; requiring a county board of education, on or before July 1, 2019, to establish a policy for public schools within its jurisdiction to utilize certain guidelines; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0623 Education - Student Use of Backpacks - Assessment and Reduction of Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means (SB0164) Health Effects - Requiring that public school personnel, parents, and students Sydnor by Ways and Means; receive educational information concerning the health effects of student use of Withdrawn Oppose overweight backpacks; authorizing a county board of education to allow Doctors of Chiropractic Medicine to conduct scoliosis examinations on students in the county schools; requiring school personnel to engage parent-teacher associations and students to assess matters concerning students' use of backpacks and to promote certain strategies relating to students' backpack usage; etc. HB0642 Education - Dual Language Immersion Program – Authorization - Requiring Delegate Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 Ways and Means the State Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2019, to establish guidelines for Gutierrez p.m. 2/16/2018 - 1:00 No Position the implementation of dual language immersion programs in public schools; p.m. providing for the content of the guidelines; and requiring the State Board to adopt certain regulations. HB0643 State Department of Education - Employment Categories and Practices - Delegate Jones Second Reading Appropriations Finance Altering the employment categories of certain employees of the State Department Passed 2/13/2018 - 1:00 4/3/2018 - 1:00 No Position of Education; requiring that all positions in the Department be appointed positions p.m. p.m. in the professional service and skilled service as well as the executive service and management service, subject to a certain exception; repealing the authority for special appointment positions in the Department; altering the procedures for appointment, the setting of qualifications, and the transfer of employees of the Department; etc. HB0664 Labor and Employment - Payment of the Minimum Wage Required (Fight for Delegate Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 Economic (SB0543) Fifteen) - Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for certain time Hettleman p.m. Matters periods; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage 2/27/2018 - 1:00 No Position rate based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban p.m. Consumers for the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area; specifying the tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting an employer, beginning July 1, 2026, from including the tip credit amount as part of the wage of certain employees; etc. HB0671 Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - School Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Budget and (SB0467) Supplies - Expanding the tax-free period for back-to-school shopping to include Patterson Passed with 2/21/2018 - 1:00 Taxation certain school supplies; defining "school supplies" as pens, pencils, crayons, Amendments p.m. 3/28/2018 - 1:00 Support binders, folders, notebooks, and loose-leaf paper, etc. p.m.
HB0677 Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Delegate Pena- Returned Passed Health and Education, Health, (SB0477) Addresses, and Telephone Numbers - Requiring a custodian to deny inspection Melnyk Government and Environmental of a distribution list and a request to be added to a distribution list that identifies a Operations Affairs physical address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number of an individual that 2/21/2018 - 1:00 Support is used by a governmental entity or an elected official for the sole purpose of p.m. periodically sending news about certain activities or sending informational notices or emergency alerts; etc. HB0679 Public Schools - School Year - Completion Date - Requiring a public school to Delegate Pena- Passed Enrolled Ways and Means Education, Health, complete the school year on or before the third Friday in June each year. Melnyk 2/22/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental p.m. Affairs Support
2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0682 State Department of Education - Nonprofit Youth Development Program – Delegate Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0438) Established - Establishing the Nonprofit Youth Development Program in the Barnes, D. p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00 State Department of Education to provide grants to qualifying nonprofit p.m. No Position organizations whose mission and programs target at-risk youth using certain strategies; requiring the Governor to include a $1,000,000 appropriation to the Program beginning in fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter; requiring the State Superintendent to review certain applications and award certain grants; requiring the State Superintendent to adopt certain regulations; etc. HB0693 State Education Aid - Tax Increment Financing Development Districts - Delegate Returned Passed Appropriations Budget and (SB0612) Repeal of Sunset Provision - Repealing the termination provision of a certain McIntosh 2/13/2018 - 1:00 Taxation provision of law relating to the annual certification of the amount of assessable p.m. 3/22/2018 - 1:00 No Position base for certain real property for the purposes of calculating certain State p.m. education aid. HB0694 Public Safety - Building Codes - Transfer of Administration to Department of Chair, First Reading Senate Environment and Rules Labor, Licensing, and Regulation - Transferring certain responsibilities relating Environment Rules Transportation No Position to the administration of certain statewide building codes from the Department of and 2/20/2018 - 1:00 Housing and Community Development to the Department of Labor, Licensing, Transportation p.m. and Regulation; providing for the transfer of certain functions, powers, and duties Committee Economic of the Department of Housing and Community Development on the effective date Matters of the Act; etc. HB0695 Open Meetings Act - Closed Meetings – Cybersecurity - Authorizing a public Delegate Frick Returned Passed Health and Education, Health, body to meet in a closed session to discuss cybersecurity if the public body Government and Environmental determines that public discussion would constitute certain risks. Operations Affairs No Position 2/21/2018 - 1:00 3/22/2018 - 1:00 p.m. p.m.
HB0709 Education - County Boards of Education - County Superintendent Contracts Delegate Miller, Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means - Requiring a certain contract of a county superintendent of schools or a certain W. p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Oppose chief executive officer, executed on or after June 1, 2019, to include a provision p.m. that if the contract is terminated, the maximum cash settlement may not exceed certain amounts; prohibiting a certain cash settlement from including any compensation other than cash, subject to a certain exception; prohibiting a county superintendent or chief executive officer who is removed under certain circumstances from being compensated in a certain manner; etc. HB0713 Higher Education - Transfer Student Education Records – Requirements - Delegate Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 Appropriations (SB1027) Requiring an institution of higher education, before deciding whether to accept Morales p.m. 2/13/2018 - 1:00 and enroll a student who applies to transfer to the institution, to request and p.m. obtain records of any disciplinary actions taken against the student from certain No Position institutions of higher education; requiring the institution of higher education to impose certain individualized conditions on the admission and enrollment of a certain student who has violated a certain sexual assault policy; etc. HB0723 Education – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Careers (PARCC) Assessment – Administration - Requiring the State Ebersole by Ways and Means; Department of Education, in entering or renewing a contract for the administration Withdrawn Oppose of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
assessment or a successor assessment, to require that each segment of the assessment be administered within a 40-minute time period; etc. HB0760 Handguns - School Employees - Handgun Permits and Carrying Weapons Delegate Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 Judiciary on School Property - Authorizing a county board to authorize school employees Impallaria p.m. 3/6/2018 - 1:00 Oppose in the county board's school system to carry a handgun on school property only if p.m. the handgun is secured on the person's body; requiring the Secretary of State Police to issue a handgun permit to a person who is otherwise qualified and who is a school employee in a certain school system; etc. HB0776 Procurement - Responsible Workforce Development Percentage Price Delegate Favorable with Health and (SB0492) Preference Act - Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations to Rosenberg Amendments Report Government require certain units to establish a responsible workforce development percentage by Health and Operations No Position price preference of at least 4%; requiring a procurement officer to apply a Government 2/15/2018 - 1:00 responsible workforce development percentage price preference if a certain Operations p.m. certification is submitted; requiring certain responsible bidders and subcontractors to certify that certain health care expenses were at least 6.5% of certain wages paid for during the immediate 12-month period before submission of the bid; etc. HB0781 Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Eligibility - High School Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0842) Diploma by Examination - Exempting individuals who have successfully Mosby 3/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental obtained a high school diploma by examination from certain requirements relating p.m. Affairs Support to the Guaranteed Access Grant, subject to certain qualifications; requiring certain individuals to meet certain qualifications under certain circumstances; altering a certain age for eligibility for the Guaranteed Access Grant under certain circumstances; etc. HB0798 Visual Impairments - Requirements for Student Screening - This bill requires Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, No Position as the administration of vision screenings. Unless exempted, as specified, the Kittleman 2/22/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Amended required screening must be administered following the current law schedule. For p.m. Affairs students who fail the screening for visual impairments, a separate letter containing, among other things, a detailed summary of the potential vision disorder and how it may affect the student’s educational performance must be provided. The bill takes effect July 1, 2018. HB0806 Education - Summer Meals Expansion Grant Pilot Program - Establishing the Delegate Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 Ways and Means Summer Meals Expansion Grant Pilot Program to provide funds to sponsors to Queen p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00 Support increase the number of children and the number of meals served through the p.m. Summer Food Service Program; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Program; authorizing certain uses of funds under the Program; requiring the Department to award grants according to certain priorities; establishing the Summer Meals Expansion Grant Fund; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to develop a certain statewide plan; etc. HB0808 Education - Collective Bargaining for Noncertificated Employees - Delegate Passed Enrolled Ways and Means Finance Supervisory Employees - Altering the definition of "supervisory employee" by Tarlau 3/1/2018 - 1:00 3/28/2018 - Oppose removing a provision that status as a supervisory employee may be determined p.m. 1:00 p.m. by certain negotiations between a certain public school employer and a certain employee organization. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0811 Education - Collective Bargaining - Exclusive Representative's Access to Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Finance (SB0819) New Employee Processing - Requiring certain public school employers to Luedtke 3/1/2018 - 1:00 provide an exclusive representative with access to new employee processing; p.m. Oppose requiring that the structure, time, and manner of certain access be determined through certain negotiations; authorizing certain parties to request certain impasse proceedings under certain circumstances; requiring the public school employer to provide the exclusive representative with certain information within 30 days of the date of hire or by the first pay period after the date of hire; etc. HB0814 Workers' Compensation - Students in Unpaid Work-Based Learning Delegate Returned Passed Economic Finance (SB0403) Experiences - Authorizing all county boards of education, rather than only certain Patterson Matters 3/28/2018 - 1:00 p.m. county boards of education, to waive the requirement that a participating 2/20/2018 - 1:00 Support employer reimburse the county for the cost of the premium for workers' p.m. compensation coverage provided to students placed in unpaid work-based learning experiences or pay a certain fee. HB0823 Education - Public School Teachers – Preparation - Requiring certain county Delegate Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health, boards of education to offer a Teacher Academy of Maryland Program to certain Luedtke p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support as students; authorizing certain county boards to partner with and enter into an p.m. Affairs Amended agreement with certain neighboring counties under certain circumstances; 3/21/2018 - 1:00 requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations for certain p.m. supervising teachers that include qualifications of a supervising teacher and procedures to ensure that a supervising teacher receives training in mentoring practices; etc.
HB0827 Juvenile Law - Juvenile Diversion Program - Authorizing a court exercising Delegate West Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB0669) criminal jurisdiction in a certain case involving a child to suspend the sentence by Judiciary; and place the child under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Services Withdrawn No Position for not longer than 18 months for enrollment in the Juvenile Diversion Program established by the Act; requiring the Program to provide an alternative to imprisonment for a child placed under the supervision of the Department; requiring the Program to provide certain services to each child enrolled; etc. HB0838 Child Protection - Reporting - Threat of Harm - Authorizing an individual to Delegate Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 Judiciary (SB0584) notify the local department of social services or the appropriate law enforcement Valentino- p.m. 2/22/2018 - 1:00
agency if the individual has reason to believe that a verbal threat of imminent Smith p.m. severe bodily harm or death to a child has been made by a certain individual and No Position that the child is at substantial risk of child abuse; specifying certain procedures and requirements for a report concerning a certain verbal threat of harm to a child; etc. HB0864 Collective Bargaining - Memorandum of Understanding – Continuation - Delegate Miller, Returned Passed Appropriations Finance (SB0654) Prohibiting a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under certain A. 2/23/2018 - 2:00 provisions of law from expiring until it is succeeded by a memorandum of p.m. No Position understanding agreed to and ratified under certain provisions of law; requiring that the terms of a certain memorandum of understanding continue in force and effect until a certain memorandum of understanding is agreed to and ratified; authorizing an exclusive representative to file a certain action in a circuit court under certain circumstances; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0867 Baltimore City – Table Game Proceeds – Recreational Facilities and School Delegate Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB0805) Programs - Altering the requirement that proceeds from certain table games paid Rosenberg p.m. 2/16/2018 - 1:00 to Baltimore City be used for certain purposes to include funding the operation of p.m. Local recreational facilities beyond the hours in effect as of January 1, 2016, and for after-school and summer school programs in Baltimore City public schools. HB0870 Public Schools - Agricultural Education Programs - Encouraging each county Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Education, Health,
(SB1065) board of education to implement an agricultural education program that prepares Shoemaker by Education, Health, 2/16/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental students for successful careers and informed choices relating to certain systems and Environmental p.m. Affairs No Position and for opportunities in agriculture-related employment and higher education by Affairs providing instruction and developing skills in certain areas through certain integrated classroom and laboratory instruction, supervised agricultural experiences, and leadership experiences and involvement in student organizations.
HB0875 Protecting Maryland Taxpayers Act of 2018 - Repealing a requirement that an Speaker Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0733) amendment to the Internal Revenue Code be enacted during the calendar year in p.m. 3/7/2018 - 1:00 which the taxable year begins that the amendment affects in order for the p.m. amendment not to impact the determination of Maryland taxable income; allowing No Position an individual to itemize deductions to compute Maryland taxable income whether or not the individual itemizes deductions on the individual's federal tax return; providing that Maryland itemized deductions may be determined in a certain manner; applying the Act; etc. HB0885 Carroll County - Board of Education – Compensation - Increasing the amount Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health,
(SB0735) of compensation from $7,500 to $9,000 for the president and from $6,500 to Shoemaker 2/16/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental $8,000 for other voting members of the Carroll County Board of Education; and p.m. Affairs Local providing that the Act does not apply to the compensation of the president or other voting members of the county board during a certain term of office. HB0910 Education - Students With Reading Difficulties - Screenings and Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0548) Interventions - Requiring certain county boards of education to ensure that a Luedtke Passed with 2/22/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental certain student is screened to identify if the student is at risk for reading difficulties Amendments p.m. Affairs Oppose beginning with the 2019-2020 school year; requiring a county board to use certain screening instruments for certain students; requiring a county board to monitor a certain student for progress for up to 8 weeks; requiring certain county boards to report annually certain information to the State Department of Education; etc. HB0921 State Board of Education - Financial Literacy Curriculum - Graduation Delegate Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Requirement - Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum Walker p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose content for a semester-long course in financial literacy; requiring each county p.m. board of education to implement the financial literacy curriculum content developed by the State Board in certain high schools; and requiring students to complete a certain course in order to graduate from high school. HB0940 High School Credit for College Courses Act of 2018 - Requiring a county Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB0479) board of education to award certain elective credit to a high school student who Patterson p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 successfully completes a certain college course or a course recognized for credit p.m. Oppose by an institution of postsecondary education in the State through a certain approved direct credit articulation agreement; requiring a certain institution of postsecondary education to make a certain certification; establishing certain 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
procedures for the State Department of Education to make a certain determination; etc. HB0941 Child Care Subsidy Program – Unemployment – Eligibility - Requiring the Delegate Passed Enrolled Appropriations Education, Health,
State Department of Education to administer the Child Care Subsidy Program in Queen 2/27/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental No Position accordance with federal law; establishing eligibility criteria to continue to receive a p.m. Affairs certain subsidy for up to 90 days in a year if the individual is unemployed and seeking employment and if the individual meets certain other eligibility requirements; etc.
HB0961 Department of Information Technology - Rural Broadband Service - Delegate Mautz Second Reading Economic Finance Inventory and Mapping of Assets - Requiring the Department of Information Passed with Matters 3/28/2018 - 1:00 No Position Technology to complete an inventory of certain State and local government Amendments 2/22/2018 - 1:00 p.m. assets on or before October 1, 2019; requiring the Department to use a certain p.m. inventory to create a certain map; requiring the Department to solicit input from local governments and Internet service providers on identifying certain unserved and underserved areas in the State; and requiring the Department to make a certain inventory and a certain map publicly available on its website. HB0964 Admissions and Amusement Tax - Exemption for School Field Trips - Delegate Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to exempt from the admissions Folden p.m. 2/20/2018 - 1:00 No Position and amusement tax gross receipts from any charge for admission to participate in p.m. a State public school field trip or similar State public school activity. HB0966 Education – Voluntary Ethical Special Education Advocate Certificate Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB1103) Program - Requiring the State Department of Education to establish the Ebersole p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 Voluntary Ethical Special Education Advocate Certificate Program on or before p.m. No Position July 1, 2019, for administration of a voluntary certificate program for ethical special education advocates; specifying qualifications and application procedures for a certificate; requiring the Department to issue a certificate to a certain applicant; authorizing an applicant to petition for judicial review of a decision of the Department that relates to issuing or renewing a certificate; etc. HB0968 Maryland School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2018 - Establishing the Delegate First Reading Senate Appropriations (SB0092) Public School Facility Construction Innovation Incentive Program to provide Barnes, B. Rules 2/15/2018 - 3:00 p.m. incentives to encourage public school systems to pursue innovative public school Oppose facility construction projects; requiring the Interagency Committee on School Construction to implement the Program; specifying certain percentage increases in the State share of eligible costs for certain projects that are approved to participate in the Incentive Program; exempting alternative financing methods from certain requirements; etc.
HB0976 Community Colleges – Vocational Certificates, Apprenticeship Training Delegate Stein Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0261) Programs, and Associate Degrees – Tuition Assistance - Establishing the p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 Community College Vocational Certificate, Apprenticeship Training Program, and p.m. No Position Associate's Degree Tuition Assistance Program; specifying that participation in the Program is voluntary; requiring an individual, in order to participate in the Program, to enroll at a community college within 6 months of obtaining a high school diploma or a certain equivalent; requiring participants to complete at least 15 hours of community service; providing certain reimbursement to community colleges for foregone tuition; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB0982 Higher Education Outreach and College Access Program - Alterations and Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health,
(SB0631) Repeal of Sunset - Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law Washington, A. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental relating to the Maryland Higher Education Outreach and College Access Pilot p.m. Affairs No Position Program; altering the name of the Program; and altering the provisions related to a certain report on the Program. HB0993 Maryland Pension Climate Change Risk Act - Requiring that, consistent with Delegate Second Reading Appropriations Budget and
(SB0898) certain fiduciary duties, the investment policy manual adopted by the Board of Korman Passed with 2/22/2018 - 3:00 Taxation Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System include certain policies Amendments p.m. 3/22/2018 - 9:00 No Position and address certain details regarding the management of climate risks in the a.m. investment of State Retirement and Pension System assets; requiring the Board of Trustees to conduct or commission a climate risk assessment of the investments of the several systems by January 31, 2019, and every 4 years thereafter; etc.
HB0996 Homeschool Students in Maryland - Extracurricular Activities - Authorizing a Delegate Angel Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means public school to allow students in home instruction programs to participate in p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Oppose certain extracurricular activities under certain circumstances; and requiring public p.m. schools to give placement priority to enrolled students if there are a limited
number of spaces available for students in extracurricular activities. HB0998 Vehicle Laws - Drivers' Schools - Age of Instruction Vehicles - Prohibiting the Delegate Unfavorable Report Environment and
use of vehicles that are older than 10 model years for instruction in a drivers' McConkey by Environment and Transportation No Position school; and specifying that the Act does not apply to commercial vehicles. Transportation 3/1/2018 - 1:00 p.m. HB0999 Baltimore City - Chief Executive Officer of the Baltimore City Board of Delegate Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means
School Commissioners - Title Change - Altering the title of the Chief Executive Haynes p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Local Officer of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to be the p.m. Superintendent of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; altering certain definitions; etc.
HB1002 Education - Teacher Certification - Montessori Schools - Making an individual Delegate Afzali Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB1041) eligible for a certificate to teach students in a Montessori school if the individual p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 meets certain requirements; authorizing the State Board of Education to require p.m. Oppose an individual to successfully pass an examination to be certified under the Act; providing that, subject to a certain exception, an individual that satisfies the requirements under the Act may not be required to meet any additional requirements to be certified to teach students at a Montessori school; etc. HB1012 State Retirement and Pension System - Investment Division - Clarifying that Delegate Second Reading Appropriations Budget and
(SB0899) the compensation of the Executive Director for the State Retirement Agency and Barnes, B. Passed with 2/22/2018 - Taxation certain staff shall be provided in the State budget; requiring the Board of Trustees Amendments 3:00 p.m. 3/22/2018 - 9:00 No Position for the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt certain criteria for setting a.m. the qualifications and compensation of the Chief Investment Officer for the State Retirement and Pension System; prohibiting certain adjustments to the compensation of the Chief Investment Officer; etc. HB1014 Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Referendum - Sports Wagering - Delegate Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 Ways and Means Budget and
Providing that the General Assembly may authorize, by law, the State Lottery and Turner p.m. 2/28/2018 - 1:00 Taxation No Position Gaming Control Commission to issue certain sports wagering licenses; providing p.m. 3/27/2018 - 1:00 that a license may be issued only to the holder of a video lottery operation license p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
or a license for mile thoroughbred racing or harness racing; submitting the Act to a referendum of the qualified voters of the State; requiring the State Board of Elections to do certain things necessary to provide for and hold the referendum; etc. HB1018 Pensions - Administrative and Operational Expenses - Limitation and Delegate Returned Passed Appropriations Budget and
(SB0784) Calculation - Increasing the administrative and operational expense cap of the Barnes, B. 2/22/2018 - 3:00 Taxation Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System and the State p.m. 3/22/2018 - 9:00 No Position Retirement Agency for fiscal years 2019 through 2022 under certain a.m. circumstances; altering the basis for the calculation of the administrative and operational expense cap; applying the Act; and making certain sections of the Act contingent on the taking effect of another Act. HB1032 Child Custody - Legal Decision Making and Parenting Time - Repealing Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary
(SB0684) references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" and substituting the terms Dumais by Judiciary; 2/22/2018 - 1:00 "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in certain instances; requiring the Withdrawn p.m. No Position court, in determining the appropriate allocation of legal decision making or parenting time between the parties, to consider certain factors; authorizing the court to award joint legal decision making to both parties under certain
circumstances; etc.
HB1060 County Boards of Education – Collection and Sharing of Student Data – Delegate Hill Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means Policy - Authorizing a county board of education, in conjunction with a local p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose health department, to develop and implement a policy and procedures for the p.m. collection and sharing of student data for certain purposes; requiring a certain policy include certain provisions; and requiring a certain policy and certain procedures to comply with the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. HB1061 Education - Salaries of Noncertificated Public School Employees - Minimum Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB0775) Living Salaries - Requiring that certain public school employees in certain areas Ebersole p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 be paid at least certain minimum living salaries; specifying the minimum living p.m. Oppose salaries that are in effect for certain time periods; increasing the minimum living salaries in effect for certain time periods based on a certain Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers; requiring that a certain minimum living salary remain the same as the salary that was in effect for a certain time period under certain circumstances; etc. HB1072 Education - Child Sexual Abuse Prevention - Instruction and Training - Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health,
Requiring a county board of education to require each employee, student, and Wilson 3/1/2018 - and Environmental Support w/ volunteer of a public school or a public school program to receive annual training 1:00 p.m. Affairs on the prevention, identification, and reporting of certain child sexual abuse; 3/28/2018 - 1:00 Amendments providing for the requirements of the instruction and training; providing that an p.m. employee may receive a certain credit for undergoing certain instruction and training; requiring the Governor to include a $500,000 appropriation for fiscal years 2019 through 2024; etc. HB1084 Calvert County - County Superintendent of Schools - Postemployment Calvert County Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Compensation and Benefits - Requiring any postemployment compensation Delegation p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Oppose and benefits provided to the county superintendent of schools in Calvert County to p.m. be commensurate with the postemployment compensation and benefits provided 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
to professional personnel in the county school system with the same tenure and vested benefits; etc. HB1098 Career and Technology Education and Workforce Investment Act - Delegate Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 Appropriations
(SB0515) Establishing the Career and Technology Education Grant Program to provide Korman p.m. (Appropriations) 2/20/2018 - 1:00 grants for the capital equipping of school facilities used to provide a certain career p.m. and technology program; requiring the Interagency Committee on School Ways and Means Support Construction to implement and administer the Program; requiring the Interagency Committee to award certain grants to county boards of education and to develop application procedures and eligibility requirements under the Program; etc. HB1107 Public Safety - Elevator Inspections – Testing - Requiring that a certain test on Delegate Third Reading Passed Economic Finance
(SB0831) an elevator unit performed in connection with a certain inspection be performed Wilson with Amendments Matters 4/3/2018 - 1:00 by a certain licensed elevator mechanic; requiring a third-party qualified inspector (45-0) 2/20/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position to be physically present during a certain test in its entirety to witness that the test p.m. has been performed correctly and to verify the proper recording of the result; clarifying that a State inspector retains certain authority under the Act; etc. HB1110 Public Schools - Health and Safety Guidelines and Procedures - Digital Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health,
Devices - Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Arentz Passed 3/2/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental No Position Maryland Department of Health, by June 1, 2019, to develop health and safety p.m. Affairs guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school 4/4/2018 - 1:00 classrooms and, by July 1, 2019, to provide the guidelines and procedures to p.m. each county board of education for consideration and adoption; requiring a county board that decides not to adopt the guidelines and procedures to provide the State Department of Education an explanation of the basis for the decision; etc. HB1131 State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations
(SB1016) Expansion of Participating Units - Requiring that, on the termination of any Morhaim by Appropriations; Ways and Means health benefits contract that exists on July 1, 2018, a county, municipal Withdrawn 3/2/2018 - 1:00 corporation, or county board must enroll and participate in the State Employee p.m. Oppose and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; requiring the Program to encompass all units in all county governments, municipal corporations, and county boards; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to adopt certain regulations specifying certain employees who are eligible to participate in the Program with certain subsidies; etc. HB1136 County Boards of Education - Student Hearing and Vision Screenings - Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, Reporting Requirements - Requiring each county board of education to report Valentino- 3/2/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental
No Position as to the Maryland Department of Health the number of students who did not receive Smith p.m. Affairs Amended recommended services after failing a hearing or vision screening and the reason 3/28/2018 - 1:00 certain students did not receive certain services; requiring each county board to p.m. develop a certain strategy to increase the number of students receiving recommended services after failing a hearing or vision screening; etc. HB1154 Teachers and Teacher Preparation Programs - Bilingual Certification and Delegate Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means Instruction - Requiring the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Gutierrez p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Board, on or before July 1, 2019, to establish a certain certification program for p.m. No Position bilingual teachers; requiring the Board to adopt certain regulations; requiring the Board and the State Board of Education jointly to set certain standards and guidelines for the delivery of bilingual instruction by certain teacher preparation programs; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB1171 Gaming - State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission - Regulation of Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Budget and Reconciliation of Proceeds - Repealing a requirement that the State Lottery and Kaiser 2/28/2018 - 1:00 Taxation No Position Gaming Control Commission adopt regulations establishing the length of time p.m. 3/27/2018 - 1:00 during which a video lottery operation licensee may reduce the amount of p.m. proceeds received from video lottery terminals and table games on a given day. HB1180 Howard County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Teachers Howard County Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, Ho. Co. 14–18 - Establishing the Howard County Student Loan Assistance Delegation 3/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Local Repayment Program for Teachers to attract, recruit, and retain a diverse cadre of p.m. Affairs qualified teachers that is reflective of the student population within county schools; 3/28/2018 - 1:00 authorizing the governing body of Howard County to establish the Program; p.m. requiring the county to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by certain teachers; requiring the county to establish the amount and terms and conditions of the Program; establishing Program funding; etc. HB1192 Department of Housing and Community Development - Live Near Your Work Delegate Second Reading Environment and Education, Health, Program – Report - Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Rosenberg Passed Transportation and Environmental No Position Development to report to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2018, 2/27/2018 - 1:00 Affairs on the Department's evaluation of the ability of existing participants in the Live p.m. 3/27/2018 - 1:00 Near Your Work Program to increase their financial grants or incentives under the p.m. Program; and requiring the Department to submit this report as a one-time component of a certain annual report. HB1203 Maryland Education Opportunity Act of 2018 - Exempting recent high school Delegate Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 Appropriations (SB1141) graduates from payment of tuition to attend a community college in the State Haynes p.m. 2/27/2018 - 1:00 under certain circumstances; providing a 50% discount on tuition to individuals p.m. No Position who do not have a high school diploma or GED and have been unemployed for at least 6 months but who have been seeking employment and who are attending a community college and seeking vocational certificates or associate's degrees; requiring the State to reimburse community colleges for foregone tuition revenue; etc. HB1210 Education – Public Schools and Youth Sports Programs – Physical Sports - Delegate Hill Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Prohibiting the State Board of Education from approving physical sports as part of by Ways and Means 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose certain programs to be offered to certain students and requiring the revocation of p.m. certain previously approved programs; prohibiting certain students from participating in certain sports programs that include physical sports; providing for the construction of certain provisions of law regarding sports programs that include nonphysical sports; etc. HB1216 Career Preparation Expansion Act - Requiring the Department of Labor, Delegate Hearing 3/09 at 2:30 Economic (SB0978) Licensing, and Regulation to develop a certain mobile application to target Clippinger p.m. (Economic Matters industry employers where skills align with the skills developed through Matters) 3/9/2018 - 2:30 membership in the Career Technology Student Organization; requiring the State p.m. Department of Education to adopt regulations requiring the award of high school Ways and Means No Position credit for certain apprenticeship programs; requiring the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to require certain information from each employing unit; etc. HB1220 Washington County Board of Education - Teachers and Other Personnel - Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Conclusion of Negotiations - Requiring parties in certain collective bargaining McKay by Ways and Means; Local Withdrawn 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
negotiations for teachers and other personnel in Washington County to make reasonable efforts to conclude negotiations in a timely manner. HB1226 Career Apprenticeship Investment Act - Authorizing the Governor to provide Delegate Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 Appropriations (SB0517) an additional $2,000,000 annually, in addition to the $1,000,000 annual Barnes, B. p.m. (Appropriations) 2/20/2018 - 1:00 appropriation, to the Maryland Higher Education Commission for Workforce p.m. Development Sequence Scholarships; requiring the Department of Labor, Economic Support Licensing, and Regulation to create a statewide media campaign to promote Matters participation in career and technical education, apprenticeships, and workforce development in workforce shortage occupations in the State; etc. HB1234 Career Youth Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship in State Employment Delegate Third Reading Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB0618) Opportunity Act - This bill prohibits institutions of higher education from referring Clippinger with Amendments 3/8/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental to credit or noncredit courses as apprenticeship or apprenticeship training courses (46-0) p.m. Affairs No Position as unless the course is part of a registered apprenticeship training program; requires Appropriations Finance Amended the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to partner with State departments to create registered apprenticeship programs to address workforce shortages; requires the Division and the Department of Budget and Management to develop position classifications for employees selected to participate in the registered apprenticeship programs; requires the Division to make a report to the General Assembly on or before June 30 each year; and repeals obsolete language. HB1235 Education - Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Delegate Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0818) Program - Eligibility and Annual Appropriation - Authorizing certain schools to McIntosh p.m. (Ways and 3/13/2018 - 1:00 remain eligible to participate in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Means) p.m. Support Breakfast Program under certain circumstances; requiring the Governor to include Appropriations an appropriation of $11,900,000 for the Program in the annual budget bill; etc. HB1243 Prevailing Wage Rates - Public Work Contracts - Suits by Employees - Delegate Second Reading Economic Finance Authorizing employees on a public work contract to sue to recover the difference Morales Passed Matters 4/4/2018 - 1:00 No Position between certain prevailing wage rates and the amounts received by the 2/27/2018 - 1:00 p.m. employees; providing that a certain determination by the Commissioner of Labor p.m. and Industry does not preclude certain employees from filing a certain action; and providing for the liability of certain contractors and subcontractors under certain circumstances. HB1244 Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB0657) Services Education System - Establishing a Workgroup on Establishing an Hettleman by Judiciary; 2/22/2018 - 1:00 Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to Withdrawn p.m. Support w/ determine whether to create an independent school board for the Juvenile Ways and Means Amendments Services Education System and identify ways to reform and improve juvenile education services; requiring the Workgroup to convene on or before September 1, 2018; requiring the Workgroup to submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly in a certain format by December 20, 2019; etc. HB1248 Public Schools - Compulsory School Attendance - GED Program or Delegate Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means Alternative Educational Program - Providing that certain compulsory school Cassilly p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 Oppose attendance requirements do not apply to a child under the age of 18 years who p.m. attends or intends to attend a GED program or an alternative educational program; providing that a student who is exempt from certain requirements 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
because the student attends or intends to attend a certain program shall be characterized as a transfer student in the student's academic record; etc. HB1254 Education - School Discipline - Guidelines and Data Collection - Requiring Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, each county board of education to adopt the Maryland Guidelines for a State Washington, A. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental No Position as Code of Discipline as the code of discipline for the local school system; requiring p.m. Judiciary Affairs the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain data in student 2/21/2018 - 1:00 3/28/2018 - 1:00 Amended discipline data reports in a certain manner; requiring the Department to report all p.m. p.m. discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for certain purposes; requiring the Department to collect data on alternative school discipline practices; etc. HB1270 Access to Maryland Courts Act - Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing Delegate Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Judiciary (SB1042) plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to Dumais p.m. 2/21/2018 - 1:00 remedy a violation of a certain provision of the Maryland Constitution or the p.m. Ways and No Position Maryland Declaration of Rights; authorizing a court to award reasonable Means attorney's fees and expenses to a prevailing defendant under certain 3/9/2018 - 1:00 circumstances; providing that the combined total of certain damages and certain p.m. attorney's fees and expenses awarded may not exceed certain limits on liability; etc.
HB1300 Education - Foreign Language Requirement - Computer Programming Delegate Rose Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0664) Language Courses - Allowing county boards of education to authorize certain p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 students to satisfy a State or county middle or high school foreign language p.m. Oppose requirement by completing a course in computer programming language; and requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations. HB1304 Family Law – Minors – Emancipation (Emancipation of Minors Act) - Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary
Extending the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include a petition for the Atterbeary by Judiciary; 3/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position emancipation of a minor; establishing that a minor who is at least 16 years old Withdrawn p.m. may become emancipated from a parent or legal guardian under certain circumstances; authorizing a minor to file a petition for emancipation in the minor's own name subject to certain requirements; prohibiting a parent from filing a petition for the emancipation of a minor; etc. HB1305 Criminal Law - Assault in the Second Degree – Educators - Extending the Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary
jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include a petition for the emancipation of a Wilson by Judiciary 3/13/2018 - 1:00 No Position minor; establishing that a minor who is at least 16 years old may become p.m. emancipated from a parent or legal guardian under certain circumstances; authorizing a minor to file a petition for emancipation in the minor's own name subject to certain requirements; prohibiting a parent from filing a petition for the emancipation of a minor; etc. HB1306 Baltimore County Board of Education - Voluntary Nonsectarian Prayer at Delegate Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB0613) School-Sponsored Student Events – Referendum - Requiring the Baltimore Metzgar p.m. 2/23/2018 - 1:00 County Board of Education to allow nonsectarian student-initiated voluntary p.m. Local prayer during mandatory and voluntary school-sponsored student events; providing that the Act does not diminish certain rights of certain individuals relating to free speech and the free exercise of religion; providing that the exercise of certain rights may not be construed as a certain support, approval, or sanction of the contents of a certain prayer; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB1311 Education - Individual Reading Improvement Plans – Requirements - Delegate Krebs Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means Requiring each county board of education to offer an Individual Reading p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose Improvement Plan to certain students who have a reading deficiency beginning in p.m. the 2019-2020 school year; requiring a certain Plan to meet certain requirements; requiring a Plan to be provided in addition to certain required reading instruction; requiring a school to send a certain written notice to the parent or guardian of a certain student with a certain reading deficiency; providing for the contents of a certain notice; etc. HB1314 Healthy Working Families Act – Exemptions – Modifications (Healthy Delegate Unfavorable Report Economic
Working Families Exemption Equity Act) - Altering the type of employees Adams by Economic Matters Matters No Position employed in the construction industry having a certain classification under the 3/6/2018 - 1:00 North American Industry Classification System who are exempted from the p.m. provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; exempting an employee who is covered under the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act from the provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; etc. HB1324 Howard County Board of Education - Superintendent of Schools - Term Howard County Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Length Ho. Co. 11-18 - Altering the type of employees employed in the Delegation p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Local construction industry having a certain classification under the North American p.m. Industry Classification System who are exempted from the provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; exempting an employee who is covered under the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act from the provisions of the Healthy Working Families Act; etc.
HB1327 Baltimore County Public Schools - Falsifying Domicile – Penalty - Delegate Miele Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means Establishing a penalty for a child's parent or guardian who, based on a p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Local determination made by a certain residency investigator, has knowingly falsified p.m. the child's domicile in Baltimore County so that the child may attend a Baltimore County public school that the child is not eligible to attend; requiring a certain residency investigator to refer a certain matter to the Baltimore County State's Attorney; and limiting the assessment of the fine to once per incident regardless of the number of individuals involved. HB1339 State Budget - Mandated Appropriations – Reductions - Requiring a certain Delegate Unfavorable Report Appropriations
(SB0213) report of the Board of Revenue Estimates to include year-over-year estimates of McKay by Appropriations 2/15/2018 - 3:00 General Fund revenue growth for certain fiscal years; authorizing the Governor, if p.m. the estimated year-over-year General Fund revenue growth for the following fiscal No Position year is less than 3%, to reduce an appropriation that is required to be included in the budget bill for the next fiscal year by up to 1% of the mandated amount; etc.
HB1353 Local Boards of Education - Fields and Courts - Naming Rights - Authorizing Delegate Miele Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means the sale or lease of naming rights by local boards of education of certain sports p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 No Position facilities at certain elementary and secondary schools; authorizing local boards of p.m. education to adopt certain regulations; and defining a certain term.
HB1365 Vehicle Laws - Speed Monitoring Systems - Operation in School Zones Delegate Wivell Unfavorable Report Environment and (Truth in Speed Cameras Act of 2018) - Requiring that a local jurisdiction place by Environment and Transportation No Position a certain device adjacent to a sign indicating a school zone before activating a Transportation 3/2/2018 - 1:00 speed monitoring system; altering the hours during which a speed monitoring p.m. system in a school zone may be operated and restricting the placement of a 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
speed monitoring system to certain areas in a school zone; limiting the fee that a contractor may receive for operating a speed monitoring system; etc.
HB1373 Education - Assessments – Administration - Prohibiting the administration of Delegate Miele Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Oppose assessment in the State; requiring the administration of the California p.m. Achievement Test as an assessment that satisfies the requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act beginning in the 2018-2019 school year; etc. HB1375 Driver Education Curriculum - Rights of Drivers Involved in Traffic Stops - Delegate Unfavorable Report Environment and
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations requiring that Parrott by Environment and Transportation classroom instruction for the driver education program include instruction on the Transportation 3/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position rights of drivers who are involved in traffic stops; requiring the Administration to p.m. include content on the rights of drivers who are involved in traffic stops as part of its Driver's Manual; etc.
HB1379 Baltimore County Public Schools - Student Misconduct - Penalty for Parent Delegate Long Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means or Guardian - Prohibiting a certain student from violating the Baltimore County p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Local Board of Education's bullying, harassment, and intimidation policy by performing p.m. certain actions; prohibiting a certain student from violating a certain Code of Student Conduct by fighting; establishing a civil fine not to exceed $1,000 for a certain person who has legal custody or care and control of a certain student; authorizing a court to suspend a certain fine under certain circumstances; etc.
HB1382 Public Schools - Student Misconduct - Parent or Guardian Liability - Delegate Long Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means Prohibiting a certain student from violating a county board of education's bullying, p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Oppose harassment, and intimidation policy by performing certain actions; prohibiting a p.m. certain student from violating a county board's student code of conduct by fighting; establishing a civil fine not to exceed $1,000 for a certain person who has legal custody or care and control of a certain student; authorizing a court to suspend a certain fine under certain circumstances; etc.
HB1384 Motor Vehicles - School Vehicles - Flashing Advisory Signs - Authorizing a Delegate Miele Unfavorable Report Environment and school vehicle to be equipped with a rear-facing flashing advisory sign to warn by Environment and Transportation Oppose drivers of other vehicles of the presence of the school vehicle when it is about to Transportation; engage in certain activity that requires care in approaching, overtaking, or passing Withdrawn the school vehicle; establishing certain standards and requirements for flashing advisory signs; authorizing the placement of a front-facing flashing advisory sign on a school vehicle under certain circumstances and subject to certain standards and requirements; etc. HB1386 Public Schools – Reporting Child Abuse – Telephone Number - Encouraging Delegate Returned Passed Ways and Means Education, Health, public schools to post the appropriate telephone number for reporting suspected Valentino- 2/23/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental
No Position as child abuse or neglect conspicuously in a high-traffic, widely used area of the Smith p.m. Affairs Amended school; and requiring a county board to ensure that the appropriate telephone 3/28/2018 - 1:00 number for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect is published in student p.m. handbooks and on the website of the county board or local school system. HB1400 State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Delegate Second Reading Appropriations Budget and
Employees of Qualifying Organizations - Altering the definition of "qualifying Morhaim Passed with 3/1/2018 - 1:15 Taxation Support w/ nonprofit organization" to authorize certain nonprofit organizations to qualify for Amendments p.m. Amendments participation in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; authorizing an employee of a county board to participate in the 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
Program; establishing the Task Force to Study Cooperative Purchasing for Health Insurance; providing for the Task Force's composition, chair, and staffing; requiring the Task Force to report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 1, 2020; etc.
HB1415 Education - Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education - Speaker Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health, (SB1092) Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with certain entities, Passed with 3/7/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental to establish a certain outreach program; establishing the Maryland Early Literacy Amendments p.m. Affairs Support Initiative in the Department; establishing the Learning in Extended Academic Appropriations Budget and Programs (LEAP) grant program; altering certain eligibility requirements for the Taxation Teaching Fellows for Maryland scholarship program; establishing a Career and Technology Education Innovation Grant; extending the final report date for the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; etc. HB1417 Healthy Working Families Act - Delay of Effective Date - Delaying the effective Delegate Unfavorable Report Economic
date of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act; etc. McComas by Economic Matters Matters No Position 3/6/2018 - 1:00 p.m. HB1432 Food Stamp Program - Summer Supplement for Children - Pilot Program - Delegate Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 Appropriations Requiring the State to provide, in Garrett County, Kent County, and Talbot Queen p.m. 2/27/2018 - 1:00 No Position County, a summer supplement of $30 per child, per month for June, July, and p.m. August, to a household that receives a federally funded benefit under the food stamp program; requiring the Department of Human Services to measure certain effects and annually report to the Governor and the General Assembly; requiring the Governor to appropriate $350,000 for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 for the summer supplement, measuring, and reporting; terminating the Act; etc. HB1438 Prince George’s County – School Construction Master Plan Workgroup PG Prince Hearing 2/15 at 3:00 Appropriations (SB0332) 514–18 - Establishing the Prince George's County School Construction Master George's p.m. 2/15/2018 - 3:00 Plan Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to make recommendations based on its County p.m.
Local review of the FY2017 Educational Facilities Master Plan; requiring the Workgroup Delegation to report its findings by December 31, 2018, to the Prince George's County Executive, the Prince George's County Council, the Prince George's County Board of Education, the Interagency Committee on School Construction, and the Prince George's County House and Senate Delegations; etc.
HB1446 Public Schools - School Emergency Response Systems - Study (Safer Delegate Long Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means Schools Act) - Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to conduct a p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 No Position study to determine best practices and procedures for the use and installation of p.m. emergency response systems in elementary and secondary school systems to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a manmade or natural disaster or an emergency occurring on school property; requiring the Center to consult with certain parties; requiring the Center to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2018; etc. HB1461 Criminal Procedure – Immigration – Supporting All Families Everywhere Delegate Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 Judiciary (SAFE Act) - Providing that an official of State government or a local government Gutierrez p.m. 3/13/2018 - 1:00 No Position is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the p.m. federal government or another state that will be used for certain purposes; stating it is the intent of the General Assembly to maintain community trust in Maryland governmental operations and law enforcement by clarifying the parameters of 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
State and local participation in federal immigration enforcement efforts; requiring the Attorney General to develop certain policies; etc. HB1464 Prince George's County - Truancy Violations - Reporting of Neglect PG 515- Prince Unfavorable Report Judiciary 18 - Requiring a school employee, in Prince George's County, to report any George's by Judiciary 3/1/2018 - Local person to the Prince George's County Department of Social Services for neglect County 1:00 p.m.
of a child if the person has legal custody or care and control of a child who is Delegation between the ages of 5 and 17 and fails to see that the child attends school or receives certain instruction; providing that a certain criminal penalty does not apply in Prince George's County; etc.
HB1466 Education - Video on Harms and Risks of Narcotic Drugs - Requiring the Delegate Miele Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means State Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other entities, to p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Oppose develop a certain educational video to provide awareness to high school students p.m. on the harms and risks of experimenting with narcotic drugs; requiring each public high school annually to show the video to each student in the school and make a certain certification; authorizing each nonpublic high school annually to show the video to each student in the school; terminating the Act after June 30, 2023; etc.
HB1474 Driver's Licenses - Revocation for Firearms on School Property - Requiring Delegate Miele Unfavorable Report Judiciary the Motor Vehicle Administration to revoke a person's driver's license or privilege by Judiciary 3/2/2018 - 1:00 No Position for 1 to 3 years if the person is convicted of carrying or possessing a firearm on p.m. school property under certain circumstances; requiring a court to notify a person that the person's driver's license or privilege shall be revoked for a conviction; requiring a court to notify the Administration of the conviction of certain persons for carrying or possessing a firearm on school property; etc. HB1476 Education - Supplemental Prekindergarten Grant – Eligibility - Requiring a Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means supplemental prekindergarten grant to be provided in each of fiscal years 2019 Valentino- p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00
Support and 2020 to county boards of education that make a full-day prekindergarten Smith p.m. program available for at least a certain proportion of certain children; etc. HB1488 Public Schools - School Discipline - Training Practices - Requiring the State Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Department of Education to develop and implement certain standardized training Washington, A. p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 Oppose practices on student discipline for all public school security personnel; requiring p.m. the Department to study certain best practices and consult with certain organizations on certain matters on or before July 1, 2019; and requiring a local school system to provide certain training to certain school security personnel on or before July 1, 2020. HB1489 Education - Due Process Hearings for Children With Disabilities - Burden of Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Proof - Requiring certain public agencies to bear the burden of proof in due Shoemaker p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 Oppose process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a p.m. free appropriate public education; providing a certain exception for a parent or guardian seeking tuition reimbursement for a unilateral placement of the student by the parent or guardian; and establishing that a certain provision of law is not intended to change certain record-keeping requirements or what constitutes a free appropriate public education under federal or State law. HB1492 Maryland Public School Transparency and Accountability Act - Authorizing Delegate First Reading Senate Ways and Means
the county commissioners, county council, or City Council of Baltimore to Washington, A. Rules 3/1/2018 - 1:00 Oppose establish an Office of the Inspector General in the local school system; providing p.m. for the selection process, qualifications, term of office, and filling of a vacancy in Appropriations 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
the Office of the Inspector General; requiring the Inspector General to examine 3/8/2018 - 1:00 and investigate certain affairs and receive complaints; etc. p.m. HB1494 Social Services – Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program Delegate Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB0964) - Establishing the Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program; Morales by Judiciary 3/1/2018 - 1:00 providing for the purpose of the pilot program; requiring the local departments of p.m. social services in Baltimore and Washington counties to implement the pilot No Position program; requiring certain local departments of social services to refer certain children to the Regional Child Trafficking Advocate within a 24 hours of identification; requiring the Secretary of State, after consultation with certain entities, to appoint certain Advocates; etc. HB1495 Public School Construction Assessment and Maintenance Reform Act - Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Appropriations
(SB1183) Requiring the Interagency Committee on School Construction to develop and Washington, A. p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 adopt certain educational facilities sufficiency standards, to create the Maryland p.m. Oppose School Facility Condition Index, and to conduct a statewide facility assessment on or before January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter; requiring the Interagency Committee to establish rankings based on certain criteria; requiring certain conditions for the statewide facility assessment; requiring the Interagency Committee to compare certain data; etc.
HB1507 Compulsory School Attendance - Truancy Violations - Reporting of Neglect Delegate Angel Unfavorable Report Judiciary - Requiring a school employee to report any person to the local department of by Judiciary 3/1/2018 - 1:00 social services for neglect of a child if the person has legal custody or care and p.m. Oppose control of a child who is between certain ages and fails to see that the child attends school or receives certain instruction; repealing certain provisions of law providing a criminal penalty for certain persons; etc. HB1517 Behavioral Health Services and Voluntary Placement Agreements – Children Delegate Passed Enrolled Health and (SB0977) and Young Adults – Reports - Requiring the Director of the Behavioral Health Sample- Government
Administration to prepare a certain annual report on behavioral health services for Hughes Operations No Position children and young adults in the State; requiring the Social Services 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Administration within the Department of Human Services to prepare a certain p.m. annual report; etc.
HB1524 Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council - Establishing the Juvenile Justice Delegate First Reading Judicial Judiciary Judicial
(SB1134) Coordinating Council; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Clippinger Proceedings 3/1/2018 - 1:00 Proceedings Council; prohibiting a member of the Council from receiving certain compensation, p.m. No Position but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; specifying the duties of the Council; authorizing the Council to request certain technical assistance; requiring the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; etc. HB1530 Education - Student Health Screenings - Brain Injury - Requiring county Delegate First Reading Senate Ways and Means
boards of education and county health departments to provide brain injury Flanagan Rules 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Oppose screenings to certain students; requiring county health departments to fund brain p.m. injury screenings for certain students; requiring that brain injury screenings be
given to students in certain years; requiring a county board or a county health department to report to the Maryland Department of Health the results of certain brain injury screenings and the number of students receiving certain services; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB1533 Students With a Disability - Brain Injury Screening - Evaluation for Delegate Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Individualized Education Program - Requiring the State Department of Flanagan p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 Oppose Education to adopt a standard, by regulation, for the provision of a brain injury p.m. screening to be given to a child with a disability during an initial evaluation for an individualized education program, using a screening developed with the advice of the State Traumatic Brain Injury Board. HB1545 State Board of Education - Nutrition Standards for Public School Food - Delegate Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Requiring the State Board of Education to establish minimum nutrition standards Waldstreicher p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose for foods provided or sold in public schools, including certain requirements that p.m. relate to milk, grains, and sodium content; and requiring the nutrition standards established by the State Board for meals offered by schools that participate in certain federal programs to meet or be more stringent than certain federal nutrition standards and guidelines. HB1557 Procurement - Architectural Services and Engineering Services - Reciprocal Delegate Returned Passed Health and Education, Health,
(SB1020) Preference - Requiring a unit to give a certain preference under certain Hayes Government and Environmental circumstances to a certain resident firm that is licensed or otherwise authorized to Operations Affairs provide architectural services or engineering services in the State; requiring a 3/1/2018 - 1:00 No Position certain nonresident firm to submit certain documentation concerning certain p.m. preferences to a unit at the request of the unit; requiring a unit to apply certain preferences to certain proposals in a certain manner; etc. HB1565 Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools - Discrimination – Delegate Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Ways and Means
(SB1060) Prohibition - Prohibiting a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that McCray p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 receives State funds from refusing enrollment of, expelling, withholding privileges p.m. Support from, or otherwise discriminating against any student or prospective student because of certain factors; making certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination in employment applicable to certain schools that receive State funds; etc. HB1571 Education - Child Sexual Abuse Prevention - Employment Process - Delegate Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health,
Requiring a county board of education and a certain contracting agency to require Wilson p.m. 3/1/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support w/ an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to provide certain p.m. Affairs Amendments information; requiring the county board or contracting agency to conduct a certain 3/28/2018 - 1:00 review of the employment history of a certain applicant; requiring the county board p.m. or contracting agency to check certain eligibility of a certain applicant; providing that a certain applicant shall be subject to certain discipline under certain circumstances; etc.
HB1577 Human Services - Family Navigation Services - Provision and Funding - Delegate Lam Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 Appropriations Requiring the Governor's Office for Children to fund family navigation services to p.m. 2/27/2018 - 1:00 support parents and other caregivers of children or youth with behavioral health p.m. No Position needs or developmental disabilities and to address certain other priorities concerning children and youth; specifying that the services be provided by certain family navigators as determined by local management boards; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of not less than $1,665,915 for the services in the annual budget each fiscal year; etc. HB1595 Education - Per Pupil Adequacy Target Grant – Established - Establishing a Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means Per Pupil Adequacy Target Grant to provide funds to county boards of education Valentino- p.m. (Ways and 3/8/2018 - 1:00
No Position that meet certain criteria; stating the purpose of the grants; requiring a certain Smith Means) 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
grant amount to be provided to certain county boards beginning in fiscal year p.m. 2019; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a certain Appropriations appropriation beginning in fiscal year 2019; requiring certain county governments to provide certain appropriations in order for certain county boards to be eligible to receive a certain grant; etc. HB1599 Career Education Policy Act - Requiring public high schools to make students Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB0949) aware of certain employment and skills training opportunities through certain Ebersole p.m. (Ways and 3/8/2018 - 1:00 apprenticeship sponsors and employers; specifying that a requirement to earn a Means) Hearing 3/09 p.m. Oppose credit in technology education to graduate may be satisfied by completing certain at 1:00 p.m. Economic courses selected by the county board; authorizing certain applicants for legislative Matters scholarships to be enrolled in Workforce Development Sequence courses or be participating in an apprenticeship training program; etc.
HB1600 Baltimore County Anti–Bullying Task Force - Establishing the Baltimore Delegate Miele Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 Ways and Means Education, Health, County Anti-Bullying Task Force; providing for the composition, chairs, and p.m. 3/9/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Local staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to compile data, study, and p.m. Affairs make recommendations regarding certain matters; requiring the Task Force to 4/4/2018 - 1:00 submit a preliminary report by July 1, 2019, and a final report by December 1, p.m. 2020, to the Governor, the members of the Baltimore County delegation to the General Assembly, and certain local entities; terminating the Act; etc.
HB1601 State Department of Education - Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative, Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means Education, Health,
Program, and Fund - Establishing the Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative in the Wilkins by Education, Health, 3/1/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support as State Department of Education; requiring the State Department of Education, in and Environmental p.m. Affairs Amended consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Affairs 3/28/2018 - 1:00 Human Services, to develop certain guidelines and offer certain training; requiring p.m. the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, to establish the Trauma- Informed Schools Expansion Program; etc.
HB1605 Task Force on Maryland Student Transportation Safety - Establishing the Delegate Miele Unfavorable Report Environment and Task Force on Maryland Student Transportation Safety; providing for the by Environment and Transportation Oppose composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Transportation 3/13/2018 - 1:00 Task Force from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the p.m. reimbursement of certain expenses; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding certain matters; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2019; and terminating the Act. HB1607 Education - Juvenile Services Education Programs - Management and Delegate Second Reading Ways and Means Education, Health,
Operation - This bill establishes a juvenile services education county pilot Luedtke Passed with 3/1/2018 - 1:00 and Environmental Support as program in Montgomery County beginning in the 2018-2019 school year. The Amendments p.m. Affairs Amended program is intended to pilot a management model where the juvenile services Judiciary 3/28/2018 - 1:00 education program facility is operated by the local board of education. The State p.m. must fund the local board via a specified reimbursement formula. The bill also authorizes individuals providing juvenile services education for the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and the local school board participating in the pilot program to be employed for nine-month or three-month periods. MSDE must convene a workgroup to analyze the results of the pilot program and report its 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
findings and recommendations by December 1, 2019. The bill takes effect July 1, 2018, and provisions related to the workgroup terminate June 30, 2020. HB1624 Local Governments - Income Tax Disparity Grants – Amounts - Altering the Delegate Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 Appropriations
(SB0764) calculation of certain income tax disparity grants to counties and Baltimore City Anderton p.m. 3/6/2018 - 1:00 under certain circumstances and for certain fiscal years; and extending a certain p.m. termination provision by 2 years. No Position HB1633 Education - Public School Construction - Contingency Fund - Providing that Delegate Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Appropriations
certain public school construction funds that are allocated to a county for certain Hayes p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position projects shall be eligible for other projects under certain conditions. p.m. HB1636 Education - Teacher Salary Enhancement Grant – Established - Establishing Delegate Unfavorable Report Ways and Means
the Teacher Salary Enhancement Grant to fund a certain increase in teacher Wilson by Ways and Means; 3/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position salaries to county boards of education that provide a certain amount of matching Withdrawn p.m. funds; requiring the Governor annually to include a certain amount in the State Appropriations operating budget for the Grant beginning in fiscal year 2020; requiring the State to distribute a certain Grant at the same time as other funds are distributed; requiring the Grant and certain county board funds to be in addition to certain other funds; etc. HB1638 Public Information Act – Revisions - Providing that, except as otherwise Delegate Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Health and
(SB0788) provided by law, the Public Information Act does not authorize a custodian of Sydnor p.m. (Health and Government records to allow the inspection of the Social Security number or date of birth of an Government Operations Support individual except to a person in interest; requiring, except under certain Operations) 3/7/2018 - 1:00 circumstances, a custodian to deny inspection of a certain part of a personal p.m. surveillance video; requiring that a victim who is the subject of a record that is Judiciary denied inspection be notified of all requests to inspect the record; etc. HB1657 Teachers and Teacher Preparation Programs - Maryland Reading Standards Delegate Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Ways and Means
Matrix – Established - Requiring the State Department of Education, the Washington, A. p.m. 3/2/2018 - 1:00 Oppose University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission p.m. to develop a Maryland Reading Standards Matrix on or before March 1, 2019; requiring the matrix to reflect certain standards and research; requiring the Department, the System, and the Commission to develop a certain syllabus and timeline for certain faculty and to establish a certain accreditation process for certain programs; etc.
HB1661 Task Force to Study Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College Delegate Reilly Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 Ways and Means and Careers (PARCC) Testing Time - Establishing the Task Force to Study p.m. 3/13/2018 - 1:00 Oppose Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) p.m. Testing Time; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding certain matters and to submit a preliminary and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the State Board of Education, and the General Assembly on or before certain dates; terminating the Act after June 30, 2020; etc.
HB1685 Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Delegate Jones First Reading Senate Health and (SB0912) Fund (Thrive by Three Fund) - Establishing the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Rules Government Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund to make grants to counties and Operations municipalities to provide care coordination services and evidence-based supports 3/20/2018 - 1:00 or interventions to low-income pregnant and postpartum women and to children p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
No Position from birth to 3 years old; authorizing any county or municipality to apply for a grant; requiring that an application for a grant from the Fund include certain evidence and a certain plan; etc. HB1696 Task Force to Study Access to Home Health Care for Children and Adults Delegate First Reading Senate Health and
(SB1071) With Medical Disabilities - Establishing the Task Force to Study Access to Reznik Rules Government Home Health Care for Children and Adults with Medical Disabilities; providing for Operations No Position the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to 3/20/2018 - 1:00 study and make recommendations for improving access to home health care in all p.m. areas of the State, including a recommendation on reimbursement rates; requiring the Task Force to report to certain committees of the General Assembly by November 30, 2018; providing for the termination of the Act; etc. HB1697 Education - Commercial Gaming Revenues - Constitutional Amendment - Delegate Favorable with Appropriations (SB1122) Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to limit the uses of certain McIntosh Amendments Report 3/8/2018 - 1:00 revenues to educational opportunities and programs for the children of the State by Appropriations p.m. Support in public schools, the advancement of educators, and the construction of school Ways and Means facilities; requiring the Governor to include in the budget submission certain amounts in certain fiscal years as supplemental funding for certain purposes; requiring that certain funding be in addition to State funding provided for certain grades in public schools in fiscal year 2020; etc. HB1698 Education - Life Changing Experiences School Program – Established - Delegate First Reading House Rules and Establishing the Life Changing Experiences School Program to teach and Chang Rules and Executive Executive Oppose empower students with the tools and skills to better react to dangerous activities Nominations Nominations that might jeopardize their health and well-being and to better equip students with the life skills necessary to thrive as an adult; requiring the Program to use certain three-dimensional media presentations; requiring the Program to collect data from students anonymously before and after the Program; requiring the Program to be a multiyear program addressing certain subjects; etc. HB1702 Juveniles - Reportable Offenses - Making it mandatory for a certain local Washington Unfavorable Report Judiciary (SB1147) superintendent of schools or school principal to transmit certain information County by Judiciary 3/14/2018 - 1:00 concerning the arrest of a student for a certain reportable offense or offense Delegation p.m. related to the student's membership in a criminal gang and the disposition of a Support certain offense as a confidential file to the local superintendent of another school in the State in which the student has enrolled or to which the student has been transferred for certain purposes under certain circumstances; etc. HB1704 Washington County - Advisory School Design Review Committee – Repeal - Washington First Reading House Rules and (SB1148) Repealing a provision of law requiring the Washington County Commissioners to County Rules and Executive Executive
establish an Advisory School Design Review Committee; repealing provisions Delegation Nominations Nominations Local establishing the Committee's duties and relating to the review of the Committee's comments and recommendations; repealing a provision requiring the Washington County Board of Education to provide a certain schedule of project milestones to the Committee; and making the Act an emergency measure. HB1712 Washington County - Superintendent of Schools - Appointment and Washington First Reading House Rules and (SB1162) Reappointment - Repealing the exemption of the Washington County County Rules and Executive Executive
Superintendent of Schools and the Washington County Board of Education from Delegation Nominations Nominations Local certain requirements that relate to the appointment and reappointment of the Superintendent. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB1720 Public Schools - Student Discipline - Suspension and Expulsion and Delegate First Reading House Rules and
Policies - Authorizing a principal to suspend a certain student for a certain Patterson Rules and Executive Executive Oppose amount of time if the student's continued presence at school is a threat to certain Nominations Nominations people or a disruption to the learning environment of other students; authorizing a county superintendent to suspend a certain student, at the request of a certain principal, for more than 10 days or expel the student for certain reasons; requiring each county board of education to adopt a written policy on student discipline to include certain provisions; etc. HB1731 Public Safety - Student Peer Mediation Program Fund – Establishment - Delegate First Reading House Rules and
Establishing the Student Peer Mediation Program Fund to provide grant Haynes Rules and Executive Executive Local assistance to schools and community-based organizations in Baltimore City to Nominations Nominations establish student peer mediation programs to reduce juvenile violence; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to administer the Fund; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $250,000 for the Fund; requiring the Executive Director to establish grant application procedures for certain organizations in Baltimore City; etc. HB1754 Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring System Fines - After-Prom Parties - Delegate Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Environment and (SB1196) Authorizing Baltimore County annually to spend, from the fines collected as a Bromwell p.m. Transportation result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems in school zones, up to 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Local $5,000 per public high school for after-prom parties. p.m.
HB1758 Education - Public School Personnel - Disciplinary Hearing Procedures - Delegate First Reading House Rules and (SB0639) Altering certain procedures for suspending or dismissing certain public school Ebersole Rules and Executive Executive personnel; authorizing certain public school personnel to request a hearing before Nominations Nominations Oppose the county board or arbitration under certain circumstances; specifying the procedures for arbitration; assigning responsibility to the individual for 50% of the cost and expenses of the arbitration and 50% to the county board; providing that an arbitrator's decision and award is final and binding on the parties, subject to review by a circuit court; etc. HB1767 Wireless Facilities – Permitting and Siting - Prohibiting a local government Delegate Davis First Reading House Rules and (SB1188) from entering into certain types of exclusive agreements under certain Rules and Executive Executive circumstances; authorizing a local government to impose certain rates and fees Nominations Nominations No Position for certain purposes under certain circumstances; authorizing a wireless provider to collocate certain wireless facilities and poles in certain places under certain circumstances; providing that certain uses of land are permitted uses and not subject to local zoning review or approval; etc. HB1783 21st Century School Facilities Act – Altering the requirements for awarding Delegate Jones Gubernatorial Veto Appropriations Budget and (SB1243) school construction contracts; renaming the Interagency Committee on School Override - Chapter 14 3/8/2018 - 1:00 Taxation Construction as the Interagency Commission on School Construction; requiring p.m. Support w/ the Commission to develop and approve policies, procedures, guidelines, and regulations on school construction allocations to local jurisdictions in an Amendments independent and merit-based manner; establishing the Workgroup on the Assessment and Funding of School Facilities and the School Safety Grant Program; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
HB1798 County Boards of Education - Home Instruction Program - Observation of Delegate Rereferred to Ways Ways and Means Instruction and Reporting of Abuse and Neglect - Requiring the parent or Turner and Means No Position guardian of a certain student to submit certain information to the county board of education before the student begins a home instruction program; requiring the parent or guardian of a student in a home instruction program to allow a representative of the county board to observe instruction of the home instruction program; requiring a representative of a county board to notify certain agencies if the representative has reason to believe a child has been subjected to abuse or neglect; etc. HB1800 State Department of Education and Maryland Department of Health - School- Delegate Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 Health and Based Health Centers - Adoption of Standards - Requiring the State Cullison p.m. Government Hold Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health to adopt certain Operations standards related to Maryland school-based health centers by August 1, 2018; 4/4/2018 - 1:00 and terminating the Act after June 30, 2019. p.m. HB1801 Primary and Secondary Schools - Armed School Resource Officers - Delegate First Reading House Rules and (SB1226) Requiring each public school to have an armed school resource officer present on Szeliga Rules and Executive Executive school grounds during regular school hours on school days; requiring the Nominations Nominations Oppose Department of State Police to assign a State Police officer to a certain public school under certain circumstances; requiring a certain State Police officer to be present on school grounds during regular school hours on school days and to carry a firearm; and authorizing a private school to have an armed school resource officer present on school grounds. HB1807 Criminal Law - Threat of Mass Violence and Deadly Weapons on Public Delegate Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 Judiciary (SB1250) School Property - Altering a certain prohibition relating to threatening to commit Sydnor p.m. 3/16/2018 - 1:00 a certain crime of violence so as to prohibit a person from knowingly threatening p.m. No Position to commit or threatening to cause to be committed a certain crime of violence that would place five or more minors at substantial risk of death or serious physical injury if the threat were carried out; altering and establishing certain penalties; etc. HB1811 Education - Threat Assessment Teams - Establishment and Oversight - Delegate First Reading House Rules and Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a certain model policy for Fraser-Hidalgo Rules and Executive Executive No Position the establishment of a threat assessment team by January 1, 2019; requiring a Nominations Nominations certain model policy to include certain policies and procedures; requiring each county board of education to establish at least one threat assessment team in the local school system beginning in the 2019-2020 school year; requiring, beginning January 1, 2021, that each threat assessment team report annually quantitative data on its activities to a certain individual and to certain entities; etc. HB1815 Commitment to Education Act of 2018 - Requiring money in the Education Speaker Hearing 3/20 at 1:15 Appropriations (SB1258) Trust Fund to be expended in a certain manner in certain fiscal years; requiring p.m. (Appropriations) 3/20/2018 - 1:15 certain percentages of the money in the Education Trust Fund to be supplemental p.m. to funding for certain programs and formulas beginning in fiscal year 2020; and Ways and Means Support prohibiting the use of certain funds on school construction projects that the State has approved for planning and for which a local education agency has paid some portion of the State share with local funds. HB1816 Safe Schools Act of 2018 - Requiring each county board of education to employ Speaker Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Ways and Means (SB1257) a designated security administrator; requiring each county board to prepare a p.m. (Ways and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 school emergency plan for all public schools in the county; requiring each county Means) 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
No Position board to perform a safety assessment of each public school in the county each p.m. year; requiring each county board to establish a school threat assessment team; Appropriations establishing the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to county boards for the implementation of approved school emergency plans; etc. HB1817 Prince George's County - Home School Students - Extracurricular Activities Prince First Reading House Rules and PG 516-18 - Authorizing a public school in Prince George's County to allow George's Rules and Executive Executive Local certain students who are not enrolled in the school to participate in certain County Nominations Nominations extracurricular activities if the student participates in a certain home instruction Delegation program and is eligible to attend the public school; and requiring public schools in Prince George's County to give placement priority to certain students over certain students if certain limitations exist. HB1818 Prince George's County - School Facilities and Public Safety Surcharges - Prince First Reading House Rules and (SB1249) Maryland Transit Administration Station PG 434-18 - Providing for a certain George's Rules and Executive Executive reduction in the school facilities surcharge in Prince George's County for certain County Nominations Nominations Local residential housing that is constructed within a certain distance of a MARC station Delegation or a Purple Line station; providing for an exemption from the school facilities surcharge for certain dwelling units that are constructed within a certain distance of a MARC station or a Purple Line station; terminating the Act after December 31, 2021; etc. HB1827 Baltimore County - Public Schools - Construction and Renovation of Delegate Lam First Reading House Rules and Schools - Requiring the Baltimore County government and the Baltimore County Rules and Executive Executive Local Board of Education to consider certain factors in making decisions regarding the Nominations Nominations construction or renovation of a school; providing for the construction of the Act; and making the Act an emergency measure. HB1829 Baltimore County Public Schools - Office of Inspector General – Delegate First Reading House Rules and Establishment - Establishing the Office of the Inspector General in the Baltimore Bromwell Rules and Executive Executive County public school system to provide independent evaluation and Nominations Nominations Local recommendations to improve the effectiveness, productivity, or efficiency of local school system programs, policies, practices, and operations; requiring the County Council of Baltimore County to appoint the Inspector General; requiring the Inspector General to coordinate with the Baltimore County public school system to develop a certain work plan and establish certain goals and priorities; etc. HB1831 Baltimore County Public Schools - Student Misconduct Offenses Relating to Delegate First Reading Ways Ways and Means Weapons – Report - Requiring the Baltimore County Public Schools Morhaim and Means Local Superintendent to submit a certain report on student misconduct offenses relating to weapons to the Baltimore County Delegation to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2018, and each year thereafter; and requiring the report to include the number of misconduct offenses relating to weapons committed by a student at each public school in Baltimore County during a certain period of time. SB0002 / CH0003 Family Law - Child Conceived Without Consent - Termination of Parental Senator Approved by the Judicial Judiciary (HB0001 / CH0 Rights (Rape Survivor Family Protection Act) - Authorizing a court, under Feldman Governor - Chapter 3 Proceedings 004) certain circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted 1/11/2018 - 1:15 of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against p.m. the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; prohibiting the court No Position from terminating parental rights under certain circumstances; specifying that a termination of parental rights under the Act terminates completely certain rights 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
and the parent's responsibility to support the child, including payment of child support; etc. SB0005 Civil Actions - Punitive Damage Awards - Providing that punitive damages may Senator Hearing 1/16 at 1:00 Judicial be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing Norman p.m. Proceedings No Position evidence that the defendant acted with wantonness, fraud, or malice; requiring a 1/16/2018 - 1:00 trier of fact to consider a defendant's liability for punitive damages concurrently p.m. with all other issues presented in the action; requiring a trier of fact to determine the amount of punitive damages to be awarded based on certain factors under certain circumstances; applying the Act prospectively; etc. SB0007 Somerset County - Community College - Eligibility of Students to Pay No Senator Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 Education,
(HB0329) Tuition or Fees - Providing that certain students residing in Somerset County Mathias p.m. Health, and may enroll full time in certain community colleges and pay no tuition or fees for up Environmental Local to 3 years if certain conditions are met; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Affairs Commission to pay 100% of in-county tuition and fees for certain eligible students; 1/17/2018 - 1:00 requiring that certain student financial aid be applied to pay an eligible student's p.m. tuition and fees before determining the amount required to be paid by the Commission; etc.
SB0029 State Government - Websites - Language Access - Requiring each State Senator Kagan Returned Passed Education, Health and department, agency, and program to provide equal access versions of certain Health, and Government No Position websites in certain languages except under certain circumstances; repealing a Environmental Operations certain provision of law providing that the reasonable steps certain departments, Affairs 3/21/2018 - 1:00 agencies, and programs are required to take related to equal access to public 1/24/2018 - 1:00 p.m. services for individuals with limited English proficiency include the operation and p.m. maintenance of certain equal access versions of certain websites; etc. SB0031 State Retirement and Pension System - State Employees and Teachers – Senator Bates Hearing 1/25 at 9:30 Budget and Benefits - Altering certain local employer contributions for members of the a.m. Taxation Teachers' Pension System; establishing a State Employees' and Teachers' 1/25/2018 - 9:30 Oppose Integrated Pension System and a State Employees' and Teachers' Integrated a.m. Pension System Savings Plan for individuals who are members of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System on or after July 1, 2019; etc. SB0043 High School Diploma by Examination - Eligibility Requirements – Exemption Chair, Finance Second Reading Finance Economic Matters (HB0193) - Exempting an individual from the requirement to not be subject to compulsory Committee Passed 1/16/2018 - 1:30 Ways and Means school attendance and to have withdrawn from school in order to be eligible to p.m. Support obtain a high school diploma by examination if the individual participates in a GED Education, Option Program administered by the State Department of Education that creates Health, and a pathway to a high school diploma by examination for certain currently enrolled Environmental high school English language learner students under the age of 21 years. Affairs SB0044 Vehicle Laws - School Buses - Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance Senator Young Unfavorable Report Education, Requirements - Requiring the owner of a school bus to ensure that the school by Education, Health, Health, and Oppose bus is inspected, repaired, and maintained in accordance with certain federal and Environmental Environmental regulations; prohibiting the owner of a school bus from allowing the school bus to Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs be operated unless it meets the requirements of the Act; authorizing the Motor 1/17/2018 - 1:00 Vehicle Administration to suspend the registration of a school bus that does not p.m. meet the requirements of the Act; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0091 Juvenile Law - Disclosure of Court Records - Establishing that a prohibition Chair, Judicial Second Reading Judicial Judiciary against the disclosure of court records pertaining to a certain child does not Proceedings Passed Proceedings 3/22/2018 - 1:00 No Position prohibit access to and confidential use of the court record by the Department of Committee 1/17/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Human Services, local departments of social services, the Maryland Department p.m. of Health, or local health departments for purposes relevant to the provision of services or care or for purposes of conducting an investigation of child abuse or neglect involving a certain child; etc. SB0092 Maryland School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2018 - Establishing the Senator First Reading House Budget and Rules and (HB0968) Public School Facility Construction Innovation Incentive Program to provide Rosapepe Rules and Executive Taxation Executive incentives to encourage public school systems to pursue innovative public school Nominations 1/31/2018 - 2:30 Nominations Oppose facility construction projects; requiring the Interagency Committee on School p.m. Construction to implement the Program; specifying certain percentage increases in the State share of eligible costs for certain projects that are approved to participate in the Incentive Program; exempting alternative financing methods from certain requirements; etc. SB0103 Task Force to Study the Impact of Student Cell Phone Use in the Classroom Senator Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 Education, - Establishing the Task Force to Study the Impact of Student Cell Phone Use in Benson p.m. Health, and No Position the Classroom; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Environmental Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but Affairs authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; requiring the Task Force to 1/17/2018 - 1:00 study certain matters; requiring the Task Force to report its findings to the p.m. Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2018; terminating the Act after June 30, 2019; etc. SB0119 Program Open Space – Local Funds – Acquisition and Development of Land Senator Zirkin Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 Education, for Education Purposes - Authorizing a local governing body to use certain local p.m. Health, and No Position Program Open Space funds to acquire and develop land for education purposes. Environmental Affairs 1/25/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0120 Family Law - Divorce on Grounds of Mutual Consent - Parties With Minor Senator Zirkin Second Reading Judicial Judiciary Children - Authorizing a court to decree an absolute divorce on the grounds of Passed Proceedings 3/27/2018 - 1:00 No Position mutual consent if the parties have minor children, under certain circumstances; 1/23/2018 - 1:00 p.m. requiring a certain settlement agreement to provide for the care, custody, access, p.m. and support of minor or dependent children; requiring certain parties to attach a completed child support guidelines worksheet to a certain settlement agreement; etc. SB0121 Family Law - Domestic Violence - Definition of Abuse - Altering the definition Senator Zirkin Second Reading Judicial Judiciary (HB0328) of "abuse" for purposes of certain provisions of law relating to domestic violence Passed Proceedings 3/27/2018 - 1:00 to include misuse of telephone facilities and equipment, misuse of electronic 1/23/2018 - 1:00 p.m. communication or interactive computer service, revenge porn, and visual p.m. No Position surveillance. SB0131 Child Abuse and Neglect – Training - Requiring that each health practitioner, Senator Zirkin Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 Judicial (HB0600) police officer, educator, and human service worker in the State receive periodic p.m. Proceedings training on the obligation to report child abuse and neglect and on the 1/23/2018 - 1:00 Support identification of abused and neglected children; etc. p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0132 Crimes - Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Establishing that Senator Zirkin Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 Judicial Judiciary (HB0500) certain persons who are required to provide certain notice or make certain reports p.m. Proceedings 3/27/2018 - 1:00 of suspected child abuse or neglect may not knowingly fail to give the notice or 1/23/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Support make the report if the person has actual knowledge of the abuse or neglect or p.m. witnesses the act of the abuse or neglect; establishing the misdemeanor of knowing failure to report child abuse or neglect under certain circumstances; and providing certain penalties for a violation of the Act. SB0135 Paid Leave Compromise Act of 2018 - Requiring certain employers with at least President First Reading Finance Finance (HB0098) a certain number of employees to provide employees with paid time off that is paid at the same wage rate as the employee normally earns and that may be No Position used by the employee for any reason; authorizing an employer to apply to the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation for a certain waiver; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to create and make available a certain poster and notice; etc. SB0139 Higher Education - Heroin and Opioid Addiction and Prevention Policies - Senator Returned Passed Education, Appropriations Exceptions and Revisions - Exempting the University of Maryland, University Conway Health, and 3/20/2018 - 1:00 College, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and an off- Environmental p.m. No Position campus location of an institution of higher education from the requirement to Affairs establish a policy that addresses heroin and opioid addiction and prevention that 1/24/2018 - 1:00 includes storing naloxone and training campus police or other designated p.m. personnel on how to recognize the symptoms of an opioid overdose; requiring these institutions to provide all students with certain resources; etc. SB0151 Health Occupations - Athletic Trainers Act – Revisions - Altering the definition Senator Bates Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0497) of "practice athletic training"; altering the composition of the Athletic Trainer by Education, Health, Health, and Advisory Committee; specifying that certain members of the Committee may be and Environmental Environmental No Position appointed from a certain list of individuals submitted to the State Board of Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs Physicians by a certain successor organization; requiring a licensed athletic 1/24/2018 - 1:00 trainer to practice athletic training in accordance with standards of practice p.m. established by certain organizations; etc. SB0160 Juvenile Law - Truancy - Affirmative Defense - Altering the application of a Senator Second Reading Judicial Judiciary (HB0319) certain affirmative defense to certain charges relating to truancy to be statewide. Nathan-Pulliam Passed with Proceedings 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Amendments 1/24/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position p.m. SB0161 Public and Nonpublic Schools - Student Sickle Cell Disease Management Senator Passed Enrolled Education, Ways and Means (HB0622) Programs - Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Nathan-Pulliam Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Department of Health to establish certain guidelines for certain employees to Environmental p.m. Support as utilize in the management of a student's sickle cell disease while the student is on Affairs Amended the premises of a public or nonpublic school during certain hours and at school- 1/24/2018 - 1:00 sponsored activities, in collaboration with certain individuals; requiring a county p.m. board of education, on or before July 1, 2019, to establish a policy for public schools within its jurisdiction to utilize certain guidelines; etc. SB0164 Education - Student Use of Backpacks - Assessment and Reduction of Senator Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0623) Health Effects - Requiring that public school personnel, parents, and students Nathan-Pulliam by Education, Health, Health, and receive educational information concerning the health effects of student use of and Environmental Environmental Oppose overweight backpacks; authorizing a county board of education to allow Doctors Affairs Affairs of Chiropractic Medicine to conduct scoliosis examinations on students in the 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
county schools; requiring school personnel to engage parent-teacher associations 1/24/2018 - 1:00 and students to assess matters concerning students' use of backpacks and to p.m. promote certain strategies relating to students' backpack usage; etc. SB0167 Public Information Act - Suits Filed by Custodians - Prohibition - Prohibiting Senator Unfavorable Report Judicial (HB0387) a custodian that receives a request from a person wishing to inspect a public Feldman by Judicial Proceedings record from filing suit under the Public Information Act against the requesting Proceedings 1/25/2018 - 1:00 No Position person. p.m. SB0171 Talbot County Board of Education - Start Date of Term for Members - Senator Favorable Report by Education, Ways and Means (HB0156) Prohibiting a custodian that receives a request from a person wishing to inspect a Eckardt Ways and Means Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 public record from filing suit under the Public Information Act against the Environmental p.m. Local requesting person. Affairs 1/24/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0179 Property Tax Credits - Real Property Used for Robotics Programs - Senator Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 Budget and Ways and Means Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by Guzzone p.m. Taxation 3/20/2018 - 1:00 law, a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation 1/30/2018 - 1:30 p.m. No Position property tax imposed on real property used exclusively for the purposes of a p.m. public school robotics program or nonprofit robotics program in the State; authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to provide, by law, for certain matters relating to the tax credit; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2018. SB0184 Income Tax - Personal Exemptions – Alteration - Altering the determination of Senator Second Reading Budget and Ways and Means (HB0365) the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain Kasemeyer Passed with Taxation 3/21/2018 - 1:00 deduction under the Maryland income tax; and applying the Act to taxable years Amendments 1/30/2018 - 1:30 p.m. No Position beginning after December 31, 2017. p.m. SB0185 Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2019) - Making the proposed appropriations contained President Passed Enrolled Budget and Appropriations (HB0160) in the State Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, in accordance with Taxation Article III, Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc. Support w/ Amendments
SB0186 Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of President Approved by the Budget and Appropriations (HB0162) 2018, and the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 2007, 2010, Governor - Chapter 9 Taxation 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 - Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $1,000,179,000, the proceeds to be used for certain Support w/ Amendments necessary building, construction, demolition, planning, renovation, conversion, replacement, and capital equipment purchases of the State, for acquiring certain real estate in connection therewith, and for grants to certain subdivisions and other organizations for certain development and improvement purposes, subject to certain requirements; etc.
SB0187 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2018 - Authorizing or altering the President Approved by the Budget and Appropriations (HB0161) distribution of certain revenue; altering or repealing certain required Governor - Chapter Taxation appropriations; repealing a requirement that the Comptroller pay certain amounts 10 2/28/2018 - 1:00 Oppose from a certain Special Fund for a certain purpose; reducing the maximum amount p.m. of certain teacher or school employee stipends; providing a certain amount of aid to certain institutions of higher education in accordance with a certain action by 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
the Board of Public Works; altering certain rate increases for community service providers; etc. SB0188 Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 - Public School Senator Hearing canceled Budget and
(HB0170) Construction Program - Baltimore City Heating and Ventilation Projects - Madaleno Taxation Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 to expand a statement of intent of the General Assembly to require that certain funds from the Local fiscal 2017 Statewide Contingency are to be used for heating and ventilation projects in Baltimore City Public Schools.
SB0198 Criminal Gang Offenses - Penalties, Procedure, and Elements - Providing that President Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 Judicial (HB0102) the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a certain child alleged to have p.m. Proceedings committed a certain criminal gang offense under certain circumstances; altering 1/30/2018 - 1:00 No Position penalties for certain criminal gang offenses; providing that certain sentences p.m. imposed shall be consecutive to certain sentences; altering the elements of a certain criminal gang offense; requiring certain local jurisdictions to use certain divested assets for certain purposes under certain circumstances; etc. SB0205 High School Credit Clarification Act of 2018 - Requiring a county board of Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
education to award high school credit to a middle school student if the State Rosapepe by Education, Health, Health, and No Position Department of Education has approved the course for the award of high school and Environmental Environmental credit under the Maryland Virtual Learning Opportunities Program; etc. Affairs Affairs 1/31/2018 - 2:00 p.m.
SB0213 State Budget - Mandated Appropriations – Reductions - Requiring a certain Senator Waugh Unfavorable Report Budget and (HB1339) report of the Board of Revenue Estimates to include year-over-year estimates of by Budget and Taxation General Fund revenue growth for certain fiscal years; authorizing the Governor, if Taxation 1/30/2018 - 1:30 the estimated year-over-year General Fund revenue growth for the following fiscal p.m. Oppose year is less than 3%, to reduce an appropriation that is required to be included in the budget bill for the next fiscal year by up to 1% of the mandated amount; etc.
SB0217 Public Schools - Student Sunscreen Use – Policy - Requiring each county Senator Young Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means (HB0427) board of education to adopt a certain written policy to authorize a student to p.m. Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 possess and use sunscreen on school property or at a school-sponsored activity Environmental p.m. without written permission from a health care provider; requiring a certain policy to Affairs No Position allow certain public school employees to apply or assist a student in applying 1/31/2018 - 2:00 sunscreen under certain circumstances; providing that a student may only use p.m. sunscreen provided by the student's parent or guardian; etc.
SB0229 Baltimore County - Program Open Space - Local Funds - Acquisition and Senator Zirkin Unfavorable Report Education, Development of Land for Educational Purposes - Authorizing Baltimore by Education, Health, Health, and Local County to use certain local Program Open Space funds to acquire and develop and Environmental Environmental land for educational purposes. Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs 2/1/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0236 State Board of Education - Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Senator Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means
Curriculum - Development and Implementation - Requiring the State Board of Robinson p.m. Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 No Position Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long high school elective Environmental p.m. course in financial literacy and entrepreneurship; and authorizing each county Affairs board of education to implement the curriculum content beginning in the 2018- 1/31/2018 - 2:00 2019 school year. p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0245 Procurement – Security Requirements – Forms - Requiring the Board of Public Senator Favorable with Education, Health and
Works to adopt regulations to establish separate forms for procurement officers to Robinson Amendments Report Health, and Government use to require security for construction contracts and contracts for supplies, by Health and Environmental Operations No Position services, or construction related services; and requiring that a certain form Government Affairs 3/22/2018 - 1:00 provide for annual and renewable contracts. Operations 2/1/2018 - 1:00 p.m. p.m.
SB0257 Juvenile Law - Records - Juveniles Charged as Adults - Establishing that, Senator Kelley Unfavorable Report Judicial (HB0555) pending a determination by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case by Judicial Proceedings involving a child whether to transfer its jurisdiction to the juvenile court, provisions Proceedings 2/1/2018 - 2:00 No Position of law relating to the confidentiality of juvenile records apply to all police records p.m. and court records concerning the child; and repealing provisions of law relating to the expungement of criminal charges transferred to the juvenile court.
SB0261 Community Colleges – Vocational Certificates, Apprenticeship Training Senator Young Hearing 2/07 at 12:45 Education, (HB0976) Programs, and Associate Degrees – Tuition Assistance - Establishing the p.m. (Education, Health, and Community College Vocational Certificate, Apprenticeship Training Program, and Health, and Environmental No Position Associate's Degree Tuition Assistance Program; specifying that participation in Environmental Affairs) Affairs the Program is voluntary; requiring an individual, to participate in the Program, to 2/7/2018 - 12:45 enroll at a community college within 6 months of obtaining a high school diploma p.m. or a certain equivalent; requiring participants to complete at least 15 hours of Budget and community service; providing certain reimbursement to community colleges for Taxation foregone tuition; etc.
SB0287 State Funds - Procurement of Services From Internet Service Providers – Senator Manno Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Education, Restriction - Providing that State funds may be used only by the State, a political p.m. Health, and subdivision, or a unit, an agency, or any instrumentality of the State or a political Environmental No Position subdivision or by a person awarded a contract or grant by certain persons to Affairs procure services from an Internet Service Provider that does not block certain 3/2/2018 - 1:00 content applications, services, and devices, impair or degrade certain Internet p.m. traffic on a certain basis, or engage in certain commercial traffic preferencing; etc.
SB0293 Commonsense Spending Act of 2018 - Providing that, beginning in fiscal year President Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0348) 2020, any appropriation that increases by operation of law is required to have its p.m. Taxation mandated level of spending increased by the lesser of the amount of the existing 2/21/2018 - 1:00 Oppose formula calculation or 1% less than the amount of General Fund revenue growth p.m. in a certain report submitted by the Board of Revenue Estimates; providing that the General Assembly may not enact certain legislation that creates a certain mandated level of funding except under certain circumstances; etc.
SB0300 Achieving Computer Science Collaborations for Employing Students President Hearing 2/07 at 12:45 Education, (HB0350) Statewide (ACCESS) Act of 2018 - Requiring the State Board of Education to p.m. Health, and develop and adopt content standards for computer science education in Environmental Support w/ kindergarten through grade 12 by November 30, 2018; requiring the State Board Affairs Amendments to consult with certain persons in developing certain standards; requiring the State 2/7/2018 - 12:45 Department of Education to develop a certain implementation plan; requiring high p.m. schools, middle schools, and elementary schools to offer certain computer science courses, education, or curricula beginning in the certain school years; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0301 Protect Our Students Act of 2018 - Requiring a certain educational President Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0351) accountability program to include certain school quality indicators; altering the by Education, Health, Health, and maximum percentage of certain academic indicators in a certain composite score and Environmental Environmental Oppose to be 80%; repealing a prohibition that certain indicators be weighted in a certain Affairs Affairs manner; etc. 2/7/2018 - 12:45 p.m.
SB0302 Accountability in Education Act of 2018 - Establishing the Education President Hearing 2/07 at 12:45 Education, (HB0355) Monitoring Unit in the State; providing that the Unit is an independent unit; p.m. Health, and establishing the Investigator General Selection and Review Commission in the Environmental Oppose Unit; requiring the Commission to appoint the Investigator General in accordance Affairs with certain procedures; requiring the Unit to investigate certain complaints; 2/7/2018 - 12:45 requiring the Unit to establish an anonymous electronic tip program; requiring the p.m. Unit to submit an annual report by December 15 to the State Board, the Governor, and the General Assembly; etc. SB0304 Maryland Healthy Working Families Act - Enforcement - Delayed Senator Unfavorable Report Finance Economic Matters
Implementation - Prohibiting the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from Middleton by Economic Matters 1/24/2018 - 2:30 2/13/2018 - 1:00 enforcing compliance with the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act until 60 p.m. p.m. Support w/ Amendments days after February 11, 2018.
SB0305 More Jobs for Marylanders Act 2.0 - Altering the definition of "qualified President Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0363) distressed county" by altering certain income levels in the definition and renaming p.m. Taxation it to be "Tier I county"; altering the scope of eligible projects for which a business 2/21/2018 - 1:00 No Position entity may apply to enroll in the More Jobs for Marylanders Program; altering the p.m. types of businesses authorized to receive certain credits and benefits under the Program; authorizing a certain county to select certain activities for eligibility for the Program; etc.
SB0307 General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Redistricting and President Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 Education, (HB0356) Apportionment Commission - Prohibiting multimember delegate districts; p.m. Health, and creating the General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Redistricting and Environmental Apportionment Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to Affairs No Position create certain General Assembly legislative districts and congressional districts; 3/1/2018 - 1:00 establishing exclusive and original jurisdiction for the Court of Appeals to establish p.m. legislative districts and congressional districts under certain circumstances; etc.
SB0308 Foster Care Recipients and Unaccompanied Homeless Youth - Employment President Returned Passed Finance Appropriations (HB0431) Program (Fostering Employment Act of 2018) - Establishing the Fostering 2/15/2018 - 1:00 3/20/2018 - 1:15 Employment Program to provide employment opportunities for certain foster care p.m. p.m. No Position recipients and unaccompanied homeless youth through training leading to certain credentials; requiring the Department of Human Services, in coordination with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, to develop and implement the Program and coordinate with local departments of social services and local workforce development boards; establishing certain eligibility requirements; etc.
SB0317 Higher Education Degree and Job Certification Without Debt Act of 2018 - Senator Pinsky Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means (HB0951) Requiring the Governor to include certain amounts in the State budget to the p.m. (Ways and Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Higher Education Commission for near completer grants for certain recipients; Means) Environmental p.m. No Position establishing the Maryland Community College Promise Program to provide the Affairs Appropriations opportunity for community college students to earn an associate degree or a 2/7/2018 - 12:45 certificate debt-free; imposing a certain State income tax on the Maryland taxable p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
income, attributable to investment management services, of an individual or a Budget and corporation or the distributive share of a pass-through entity; etc. Taxation SB0326 Education – Public School Opportunities Enhancement Program – Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
Administration Resources - Requiring the State Department of Education to hire Ferguson by Education, Health, Health, and No Position an additional employee for the administration of the Public School Opportunities and Environmental Environmental Enhancement Program; and authorizing the Department to retain a reasonable Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs portion of a certain appropriation to administer a certain program. SB0332 Prince George's County - School Construction Master Plan Workgroup - Senator First Reading House Budget and Rules and
(HB1438) Establishing the Prince George's County School Construction Master Plan Rosapepe Rules and Executive Taxation Executive Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to make recommendations based on its Nominations 2/14/2018 - 1:00 Nominations Local review of the FY2017 Educational Facilities Master Plan; requiring the Workgroup p.m. to report its findings by December 31, 2018, to the Prince George's County Executive, the Prince George's County Council, the Prince George's County Board of Education, the Interagency Committee on School Construction, and the Prince George's County House and Senate Delegations; etc. SB0340 Washington County - Alcoholic Beverages - Tasting Licenses - Authorizing Washington Returned Passed Education, Economic Matters (HB1156) the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County to issue beer tasting, County Health, and
wine tasting, and liquor tasting licenses to holders of any class of beer, wine, and Senators Environmental Local liquor license; providing that the beer tasting license authorizes the holder to allow Affairs the on-premises consumption of multiple varieties of beer for tasting from a single 2/23/2018 - 1:00 brand owner under certain circumstances; prohibiting a license holder from p.m. serving more than a certain amount of a single offering of beer to a single consumer; etc. SB0359 Carroll County - Board of Education - Student Representative - Carroll County Favorable Report by Education, Ways and Means
(HB0621) Providing a scholarship for the student representative of the Carroll Senators Ways and Means Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 County Board of Education; specifying that a student may not receive more than Environmental p.m. two scholarships of $3,500 each; requiring the scholarship to be used for certain Affairs Local purposes and to be paid directly to a certain institution; providing that the 2/7/2018 - 12:45 scholarship may not be considered compensation for certain purposes; allowing p.m. the student representative to be reimbursed for certain expenses; etc. SB0368 Labor and Employment - State Minimum Wage Rate – Increase - Specifying Senator Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Finance
the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain time periods based on employer McFadden p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 No Position size; increasing the State minimum wage rate based on the annual growth in the p.m. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area, or a certain successor index; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, beginning at a certain time, to annually determine and announce the growth in the Consumer Price Index and the new State minimum wage rate; etc.
SB0369 Public and Nonpublic Schools - Classwork and Assessment Involving Live Senator Young Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0544) and Dead Animals - Student Choice Policy - Authorizing a student in a public by Education, Health, Health, and school or nonpublic school to choose not to participate in or observe, in whole or and Environmental Environmental in part, classwork or an assessment that includes certain actions conducted on a Affairs Affairs Oppose certain animal; authorizing a student to choose not to participate in or observe the 2/7/2018 - 12:45 classwork or assessment at a certain time; requiring a certain student to complete p.m. the required classwork or assessment by a certain alternative educational method that meets certain requirements; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0373 Education - Head Start Program - Annual Appropriation - Requiring the Senator Currie Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations (HB0547) Governor to include an appropriation of at least $3,000,000 for the Head Start Taxation 3/20/2018 - 1:15 Program in each annual budget submission. 2/7/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Support p.m.
SB0375 Election Law - Local Public Campaign Financing – Expansion - Altering a Senator Pinsky Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Education, (HB0174) certain provision of law to authorize the governing body of a county to establish, p.m. Health, and by law, a system of public campaign financing for any elective offices in the Environmental county government. Affairs No Position 2/8/2018 - 1:00 p.m.
SB0379 Education - Child Care Subsidies - Mandatory Funding Levels - Requiring the Senator King Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations (HB0430) Governor to include in the State budget a certain appropriation to the Child Care Taxation Subsidy Program each fiscal year; requiring the Governor to appropriate funds in 2/14/2018 - 1:00 the State budget to increase the Child Care Subsidy Program reimbursement p.m. No Position rates to a certain amount in certain fiscal years; etc. SB0394 Baltimore City – Property Tax Credit – School Public Safety Officers - Senator Returned Passed Budget and Ways and Means
(HB0117) Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide, by law, a Conway Taxation 3/27/2018 - 1:00 certain property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on a dwelling 2/21/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Local located in Baltimore City that is owned by a public safety officer employed by the p.m. Baltimore City Public School System; and applying the Act to taxable years after June 30, 2018. SB0396 Open Meetings Act - Training – Application - Requiring each public body to Senator Favorable Report by Education, Health and
designate at least one individual who is an employee, an officer, or a member of Conway Health and Health, and Government the public body to receive training on the requirements of the open meetings law; Government Environmental Operations No Position and applying the Act only to a public body that meets in a closed session on or Operations Affairs 3/28/2018 - 1:00 after October 1, 2017. 2/14/2018 - 2:00 p.m. p.m.
SB0402 Education - Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum - Boundaries and Senator Zucker Third Reading Passed Education, Ways and Means (HB0251) Consent - Requiring a county board of education to provide age-appropriate (118-21) Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 instruction on the meaning of "consent" and respect for personal boundaries as Environmental p.m. No Position part of the Family Life and Human Sexuality curriculum in all grades in which the Affairs curriculum is taught in public schools in the county beginning in the 2018-2019 2/14/2018 - 2:00 school year. p.m. SB0403 Workers' Compensation - Students in Unpaid Work-Based Learning Senator Second Reading Finance Economic Matters (HB0814) Experiences - Authorizing all county boards of education, rather than only Middleton Passed 2/13/2018 - 1:00 certain county boards of education, to waive the requirement that a participating p.m. Support employer reimburse the county for the cost of the premium for workers' compensation coverage provided to students placed in unpaid work-based learning experiences or pay a certain fee. SB0438 State Department of Education - Nonprofit Youth Development Program – Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
(HB0682) Established - Establishing the Nonprofit Youth Development Program in the Ramirez by Education, Health, Health, and State Department of Education to provide grants to qualifying nonprofit and Environmental Environmental organizations whose mission and programs target at-risk youth using certain Affairs Affairs No Position strategies; requiring the Governor to include a $1,000,000 appropriation to the 2/14/2018 - 2:00 Program beginning in fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter; requiring p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
the State Superintendent to review certain applications and award certain grants; requiring the State Superintendent to adopt certain regulations; etc. SB0467 Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - School Senator First Reading House Budget and
(HB0671) Supplies - Expanding the tax-free period for back-to-school shopping to include Eckardt Rules and Executive Taxation certain school supplies; defining "school supplies" as pens, pencils, crayons, Nominations 2/14/2018 - 1:00 binders, folders, notebooks, and loose-leaf paper; etc. p.m. Support
SB0469 Public Health - School Buildings - Minimum Health Standards (Healthy Senator Salling Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Budget and Schools Program) - Establishing the Healthy Schools Program in the State to p.m. Taxation Oppose promote a healthy environment in the public schools by adopting minimum 2/21/2018 - 1:00 standards designed to protect the health of the occupants of public school p.m. buildings; requiring the Secretary of Health, in consultation with the Interagency Committee on School Construction, to adopt minimum standards to protect the health of the occupants of public school buildings; authorizing a representative of the Secretary to inspect a public school to make a certain determination; etc. SB0473 Prince George’s County – School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2018 - Senator Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Budget and
(HB0195) Establishing the Prince George's County Public School Facility Construction Rosapepe p.m. Taxation Innovation Incentive Program to encourage the Prince George's County public 2/21/2018 - 1:00 school system to pursue innovative public school facility construction projects by p.m. Local certain means; specifying a certain percentage increase in the State share of eligible costs for certain projects that are approved to participate in the Incentive Program; exempting alternative financing methods used in Prince George's County from certain requirements; etc. SB0474 Ethics - Local Public Ethics Commissions and Entities - Meeting and Senator Second Reading Education, Environment and
Reporting Requirements - Requiring each local ethics commission or a certain Benson Passed Health, and Transportation No Position entity to meet at least three times each year; and requiring each local ethics Environmental 3/22/2018 - 1:00 commission or a certain entity to submit to the local governing body and to certain Affairs p.m. members of the General Assembly a report on the administration of the local 2/8/2018 - 1:00 public ethics laws by that local ethics commission or entity on or before October 1 p.m. each year.
SB0477 Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Senator Kagan Third Reading Passed Education, Health and (HB0677) Addresses, and Telephone Numbers - Requiring a custodian to deny inspection (133-5) Health, and Government of a distribution list and a request to be added to a distribution list that identifies a Environmental Operations physical address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number of an individual that Affairs 3/21/2018 - 1:00 Support is used by a governmental entity or an elected official for the sole purpose of 2/14/2018 - 2:00 p.m. periodically sending news about certain activities or sending informational notices p.m. or emergency alerts; etc. SB0479 High School Credit for College Courses Act of 2018 - Requiring a county Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
(HB0940) board of education to award certain elective credit to a high school student who Rosapepe by Education, Health, Health, and successfully completes a certain college course or a course recognized for credit and Environmental Environmental Oppose by an institution of postsecondary education in the State through a certain Affairs Affairs approved direct credit articulation agreement; requiring a certain institution of 2/14/2018 - 2:00 postsecondary education to make a certain certification; establishing certain p.m. procedures for the State Department of Education to make a certain determination; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0483 Public Schools - Sprinkler Systems – Required - Requiring that a sprinkler Senator King Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0226) system that meets certain requirements be installed in each public school building by Education, Health, Health, and in the State; and providing for the application of certain provisions of law. and Environmental Environmental Oppose Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs 2/13/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0485 Education - Maryland Early Literacy Initiative Program – Established - Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
Establishing the Maryland Early Literacy Initiative Program to assist up to 50 Conway by Education, Health, Health, and No Position qualifying schools to implement an evidence-based literacy program in the school and Environmental Environmental to work with participating students to meet literacy proficiency targets by the end Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs of third grade; requiring the Program to be established in at least three counties; requiring the State Department of Education to develop and administer the Program; authorizing a county board to apply to the Department for grants; terminating the Act after December 31, 2024; etc.
SB0490 Child Abuse and Neglect - Disclosure of Identifying Information and Senator Kelley Second Reading Judicial Judiciary (HB0454) Investigations - Requiring a court to provide the Secretary of Health with Passed with Proceedings 3/28/2018 - 1:00 identifying information regarding an individual who has been convicted under Amendments 2/8/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position certain provisions of law of the murder, attempted murder, or manslaughter of a p.m. child; requiring a local department to open an investigation of child abuse or neglect if the local department is prevented from accessing a certain child while providing a certain assessment; etc.
SB0492 Procurement – Responsible Workforce Development Percentage Price Senator Zucker Favorable Report by Education, Health and (HB0776) Preference Act - Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations to Health and Health, and Government require certain units to establish a responsible workforce development percentage Government Environmental Operations No Position price preference of at least 4%; requiring a procurement officer to apply a Operations Affairs 3/29/2018 - 1:00 responsible workforce development percentage price preference if a certain 2/13/2018 - 1:00 p.m. certification is submitted; requiring certain responsible bidders and subcontractors p.m. to certify that certain health care expenses were at least 6.5% of certain wages paid for during the immediate 12-month period before submission of the bid; etc.
SB0508 Interaction With Law Enforcement Officers - Development and Senator Waugh Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 Education, Environment and Implementation of Curriculum Content - Requiring the State Board of p.m. Health, and Transportation No Position as Education to develop curriculum content relating to interaction between Environmental 3/29/2018 - 1:00 Amended individuals and law enforcement officers to be included in a course required for Affairs p.m. graduation by September 1, 2019; requiring each county board of education to 2/14/2018 - 2:00 implement certain curriculum content developed by the State Board in each high p.m. school in the county on or before September 1 2020; requiring for entry-level and in-service level police training a certain curriculum and minimum courses of study; etc.
SB0515 Career and Technology Education and Workforce Investment Act - Senator Currie Hearing 3/20 at 1:15 Budget and Appropriations (HB1098) Establishing the Career and Technology Education Grant Program to provide p.m. (Appropriations) Taxation 3/20/2018 - 1:15 grants for the capital equipping of school facilities used to provide a certain career 2/21/2018 - 1:00 p.m. and technology program; requiring the Interagency Committee on School p.m. Ways and Means Support Construction to implement and administer the Program; requiring the Interagency Committee to award certain grants to county boards of education and to develop application procedures and eligibility requirements under the Program; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0517 Career Apprenticeship Investment Act - Authorizing the Governor to provide Senator Hearing 3/20 at 1:15 Finance Appropriations (HB1226) an additional $2,000,000 annually, in addition to the $1,000,000 annual Rosapepe p.m. (Appropriations) 2/20/2018 - 1:00 3/20/2018 - 1:15 appropriation, to the Maryland Higher Education Commission for Workforce p.m. p.m. Support Development Sequence Scholarships; requiring the Department of Labor, Economic Matters Licensing, and Regulation to create a statewide media campaign to promote participation in career and technical education, apprenticeships, and workforce development in workforce shortage occupations in the State; etc. SB0543 Labor and Employment - Payment of the Minimum Wage Required (Fight for Senator Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 Finance (HB0664) Fifteen) - Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for certain time Madaleno p.m. 3/8/2018 - 1:00 periods; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage p.m. No Position rate based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area; specifying the tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting an employer, beginning July 1, 2026, from including the tip credit amount as part of the wage of certain employees; etc. SB0545 Public Safety - Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Senator Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0432) Fund – Establishment - Establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Conway p.m. Taxation Prevention Program Fund to provide funds to local governments to implement 2/27/2018 - 1:00 evidence-based or evidence-informed health programs and to evaluate the p.m. No Position efficacy of evidence-based and evidence-informed health programs; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $5,000,000 to the Fund; establishing the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Advisory Council; etc. SB0548 Education – Students With Reading Difficulties – Screenings and Senator Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Education, (HB0910) Interventions - Requiring certain county boards of education to ensure that a Conway p.m. Health, and certain student is screened to identify if the student is at risk for reading difficulties Environmental Oppose beginning with the 2019-2020 school year; requiring a county board to use certain Affairs screening instruments for certain students; requiring a county board to monitor a 2/21/2018 - 1:00 certain student for progress for up to 8 weeks; requiring certain county boards to p.m. report annually certain information to the State Department of Education; etc. SB0562 Education - Assessments - Administration by Public School Employees - Senator Zucker Second Reading Education, Ways and Means (HB0617) Authorizing the principal of a public school to select any employee to administer Passed with Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 certain assessments. Amendments Environmental p.m. No Position as Affairs 2/21/2018 - 1:00 Amended p.m. SB0570 Vision Disorders - Requirements for Student Screening – Revisions - Senator Bates Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means Requiring a vision screening provided to certain students in public schools to p.m. Health, and 4/6/2018 - 1:00 include the administration of a screening for possible symptoms of certain vision Environmental p.m. Oppose disorders; requiring screenings to be given in certain years to certain students Affairs unless evidence is presented that the student has been tested by certain doctors 2/21/2018 - 1:00 or screened for the symptoms of certain vision disorders; etc. p.m. SB0572 Prevailing Wage Rates - Public Work Contracts - Suits by Employees - Senator Returned Passed Finance Economic Matters Authorizing employees on a public work contract to sue to recover the difference Benson 2/20/2018 - 1:00 between certain prevailing wage rates and the amounts received by the p.m. Oppose employees; providing that a certain determination by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry does not preclude certain employees from filing a certain action; and 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
providing for the liability of certain contractors and subcontractors under certain circumstances. SB0584 Child Protection - Reporting - Threat of Harm - Authorizing an individual to Senator Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 Judicial (HB0838) notify the local department of social services or the appropriate law enforcement Ramirez p.m. Proceedings agency if the individual has reason to believe that a verbal threat of imminent 2/8/2018 - 1:00 severe bodily harm or death to a child has been made by a certain individual and p.m. No Position that the child is at substantial risk of child abuse; specifying certain procedures and requirements for a report concerning a certain verbal threat of harm to a child; etc. SB0589 Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Education Trust Fund - Senator Unfavorable Report Budget and Allocation to Establish Community School Programs - Adding a required use Robinson by Budget and Taxation Local of money in the Education Trust Fund; requiring the Governor to make a Taxation 2/28/2018 - 1:00 $1,000,000 appropriation to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners p.m. beginning in fiscal year 2020; prohibiting the appropriation from supplanting certain other State funds; requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to use certain funds to establish community school programs in certain areas; etc. SB0590 Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - Education Trust Fund - Senator Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Budget and Allocation to Establish Judy Centers - Altering a required use of money in the Robinson p.m. Taxation Local Education Trust Fund; requiring the Governor to make a $1,000,000 appropriation 2/28/2018 - 1:00 to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners beginning in fiscal year p.m. 2020; prohibiting the appropriation from supplanting certain other State funds; requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to use certain funds to establish Judy Centers; etc. SB0611 Education – Healthy School Facility Fund – Established - Establishing the Senator Returned Passed Education, Appropriations Healthy School Facility Fund to provide grants to public primary and secondary Conway Health, and 3/28/2018 - 1:00 schools in the State to improve the health of school facilities; requiring the Environmental p.m. Support Interagency Committee on School Construction to administer the Fund; requiring Affairs the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; 2/27/2018 - 1:00 specifying the contents of the Fund; providing for the investment of money in and p.m. expenditures from the Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; etc. SB0612 State Education Aid - Tax Increment Financing Development Districts - Senator Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations (HB0693) Repeal of Sunset Provision - Repealing the termination provision of a certain Ferguson Taxation 3/20/2018 - 1:15 provision of law relating to the annual certification of the amount of assessable p.m. No Position base for certain real property for the purposes of calculating certain State 2/28/2018 - 1:00 education aid. p.m. SB0613 Baltimore County Board of Education - Voluntary Nonsectarian Prayer at Senator Unfavorable Report Education, (HB1306) School-Sponsored Student Events – Referendum - Requiring the Baltimore Robinson by Education, Health, Health, and County Board of Education to allow nonsectarian student-initiated voluntary and Environmental Environmental prayer during mandatory and voluntary school-sponsored student events; Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs Local providing that the Act does not diminish certain rights of certain individuals 2/21/2018 - 1:00 relating to free speech and the free exercise of religion; providing that the p.m. exercise of certain rights may not be construed as a certain support, approval, or sanction of the contents of a certain prayer; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0618 Career Youth and Public Sector Apprenticeship Act - This bill authorizes a Senator Second Reading Education, Ways and Means (HB1234) local school board of education to count specified time spent in a registered Klausmeier Passed with Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 apprenticeship program toward high school attendance and either high school Amendments Environmental p.m. No Position as graduation or a postsecondary credential, or both. A higher education institution Affairs Appropriations Amended may not refer to a noncredit or credit course as an apprenticeship or 2/28/2018 - 1:00 apprenticeship training course unless the course is an approved registered p.m. apprenticeship training program. The Division of Workforce Development and Finance Adult Learning (DWDAL) and the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) must develop position classifications, which would include incremental salary adjustments, for employees who are selected to participate in specified registered apprenticeship programs. SB0631 Higher Education Outreach and College Access Program - Alterations and Senator Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means (HB0982) Repeal of Sunset - Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law Rosapepe p.m. Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 relating to the Maryland Higher Education Outreach and College Access Pilot Environmental p.m. Program; altering the name of the Program; and altering the provisions related to Affairs No Position a certain report on the Program. 2/28/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0638 Teachers and Teacher Preparation Programs - Research-Based Reading Senator Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Education, (HB0493) Instruction - Requiring the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Conway p.m. Health, and Board, on or before January 1, 2022, to require a candidate for a certificate to Environmental teach certain students to pass a test of research-based reading instruction; Affairs Oppose requiring the Board and the State Board of Education jointly to select the test and 2/28/2018 - 1:00 set the passing score for the test, subject to a certain condition; requiring the p.m. Board and the State Board jointly to set standards for the delivery of research- based reading instruction by teacher preparation programs in the State; etc. SB0639 Education - Public School Personnel - Disciplinary Hearing Procedures - Senator Gubernatorial Veto Education, Ways and Means (HB1758) Altering certain procedures for suspending or dismissing certain public school Guzzone Override - Chapter 13 Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 personnel; authorizing certain public school personnel to request a hearing before Environmental p.m. Oppose the county board or arbitration under certain circumstances; specifying the Affairs procedures for arbitration; assigning responsibility to the individual for 50% of the 2/28/2018 - 1:00 cost and expenses of the arbitration and 50% to the county board; providing that p.m. an arbitrator's decision and award is final and binding on the parties, subject to review by a circuit court; etc. SB0650 Income Tax Subtraction Modification - College Savings Plan Accounts - Senator King Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0131) Contributions (College Savings Tax Enhancement Act) - Increasing, from p.m. Taxation $2,500 to $5,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland 2/28/2018 - 1:00 No Position income tax for contributions made by certain individuals whose federal adjusted p.m. gross income does not exceed $225,000 or, in the case of a single individual or a married individual filing a separate return, $150,000 to certain college savings plan accounts; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; etc. SB0654 Collective Bargaining - Memorandum of Understanding – Continuation – Senator Third Reading Passed Finance Appropriations (HB0864) Prohibiting a memorandum of understanding agreed to and ratified under certain Mathias (89-47) 3/8/2018 - 1:00 provisions of law from expiring until it is succeeded by a memorandum of p.m. understanding agreed to and ratified under certain provisions of law; requiring that No Position the terms of a certain memorandum of understanding continue in force and effect 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
until a certain memorandum of understanding is agreed to and ratified; authorizing an exclusive representative to file a certain action in a circuit court under certain circumstances; etc. SB0657 Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Senator Kelley Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Education, (HB1244) Services Education System - Establishing a Workgroup on Establishing an p.m. Health, and Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to Environmental Support w/ determine whether to create an independent school board for the Juvenile Affairs Amendments Services Education System, and identify ways to reform and improve juvenile 2/28/2018 - 1:00 education services; requiring the Workgroup to convene on or before September p.m. 1, 2018; requiring the Workgroup to submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly in a certain format by December 20, 2019; etc. SB0664 Education - Foreign Language Requirement - Computer Programming Senator Bates Unfavorable Report Education, (HB1300) Language Courses - Allowing county boards of education to authorize certain by Education, Health, Health, and students to satisfy a State or county middle or high school foreign language and Environmental Environmental Oppose requirement by completing a course in computer programming language; and Affairs Affairs requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations 2/28/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0665 Education – Robotics Grant Program – Nonprofit Robotics Clubs - Altering Senator Bates Unfavorable Report Education, Ways and Means the eligibility requirements for existing nonprofit robotics clubs to receive a grant by Ways and Means Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 Oppose under the Robotics Grant Program regardless of whether the nonprofit robotics Environmental p.m. club is associated with a public school. Affairs 2/28/2018 - 1:00 p.m.
SB0666 Task Force to Study Grading Policies in Maryland Schools - Establishing the Senator Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Education, Task Force to Study Grading Policies in Maryland Schools; providing for the Robinson p.m. Health, and Oppose composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to Environmental study and make recommendations regarding certain matters; requiring the Task Affairs Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the 2/21/2018 - 1:00 General Assembly on or before December 1, 2018; etc. p.m. SB0667 Education - No-Zero Grading Policy – Prohibition - Prohibiting a county board Senator Unfavorable Report Education, of education from establishing a no-zero grading policy. Robinson by Education, Health, Health, and Oppose and Environmental Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs 2/21/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0669 Juvenile Law - Juvenile Diversion Program - Authorizing a court exercising Senator Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 Judicial (HB0827) criminal jurisdiction in a certain case involving a child to suspend the sentence Brochin p.m. Proceedings and place the child under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Services 3/6/2018 - 1:00 for enrollment in the Juvenile Diversion Program established by the Act; requiring p.m. No Position the Department to establish a Juvenile Diversion Program to provide an alternative to imprisonment for a child placed under the supervision of the Department; requiring the Program to provide certain services to each child enrolled; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0678 State Department of Education - Employment Categories and Practices - Senator First Reading House Finance Rules and Altering the employment categories of certain employees of the State Department Benson Rules and Executive 2/20/2018 - 1:00 Executive No Position of Education; requiring that all positions in the Department be appointed positions Nominations p.m. Nominations in the professional service and skilled service as well as the executive service and management service, subject to a certain exception; repealing the authority for certain special appointment positions in the Department; altering the procedures for the appointment, setting of qualifications, and transfer of employees of the Department; etc. SB0684 Child Custody - Legal Decision Making and Parenting Time - Repealing Senator Lee Unfavorable Report Judicial (HB1032) references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" and substituting the terms by Judicial Proceedings "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in certain instances; requiring the Proceedings 2/21/2018 - 1:00 No Position court, in determining the appropriate allocation of legal decision making or p.m. parenting time between the parties, to consider certain factors; authorizing the court to award joint legal decision making to both parties under certain circumstances; etc. SB0699 Alternate Contributory Pension Selection – Former Members – Member Senator Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations (HB1019) Contributions - Requiring that certain active members of the Employees' Guzzone Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System who are subject to the 2/22/2018 - 8:30 p.m. Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit earn a certain rate of interest on certain a.m. No Position former member contributions in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection under certain circumstances; etc. SB0712 Maryland Healthy Working Families Act – Exemptions - Repealing the Senator First Reading Finance Finance inclusion of local governments in the definition of "employer" for purposes of Serafini Support w/ certain provisions of law governing earned sick and safe leave; exempting from Amendments certain provisions of law governing earned sick and safe leave certain employees who are employed by county boards of education or nonprofit entities or who regularly work at facilities at which their employers offer the employees access to an on-site health clinic that has operating costs of at least $1,000,000 per year; etc. SB0725 Bullying, Cyberbullying, Harassment, and Intimidation - Civil Relief and Senator Zirkin Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 Judicial Judiciary School Response - Authorizing a victim of cyberbullying or a parent or guardian p.m. Proceedings 3/27/2018 - 1:00 Support of a victim of cyberbullying to bring a certain action for injunctive relief against a 2/20/2018 - 1:00 p.m. certain individual; authorizing a school principal to make a certain report if, after p.m. an investigation is completed, the school principal has reason to believe that a Education, student has engaged in conduct that constitutes a certain criminal offense; etc. Health, and Environmental Affairs SB0729 County Boards of Education - Length of School Year – Adjustments - Senator King Passed Enrolled Education, Ways and Means (HB0553) Authorizing a county board of education to extend the length of the school year for Health, and 3/23/2018 - 1:00 up to 5 days without approval from the State Board of Education; and requiring a Environmental p.m. Support county board to submit a written application to the State Board for permission to Affairs increase the length of the school year for more than a certain number of school 2/28/2018 - 1:00 days in accordance with a certain provision of law or to decrease the length of the p.m. school year. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0733 Protecting Maryland Taxpayers Act of 2018 - Repealing a requirement that an President Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0875) amendment to the Internal Revenue Code be enacted during the calendar year in p.m. Taxation which the taxable year that the amendment affects begins in order for the 2/28/2018 - 1:00 No Position amendment not to impact the determination of Maryland taxable income; allowing p.m. an individual to itemize deductions to compute Maryland taxable income whether or not the individual itemizes deductions on the individual's federal tax return; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; etc. SB0735 Carroll County - Board of Education – Compensation - Increasing the amount Carroll County Favorable Report by Education, Ways and Means (HB0885) of compensation from $7,500 to $9,000 for the president and from $6,500 to Senators Ways and Means Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 $8,000 for other voting members of the Carroll County Board of Education; and Environmental p.m. Local providing that the Act does not apply to the compensation of the president or Affairs other voting members of the county board during a certain term of office. 2/21/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0737 State Finance and Procurement - State-Funded Entities - Diversity in Senator Unfavorable Report Education, Advertising - Requiring a State-funded entity that advertises to the general public Robinson by Education, Health, Health, and No Position to advertise using a range of media sources with target audiences that reflect the and Environmental Environmental racial diversity of the State; and defining "State-funded entity" as a unit of State Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs government or an entity or association that receives State aid. 2/20/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0739 State Board of Education - Membership - Teachers and Parent - Altering the Senator Second Reading Education, Ways and Means (HB0154) membership of the State Board of Education to add two regular members who are Madaleno Passed with Health, and 4/3/2018 - 1:00 certified teachers and a parent of a student enrolled in a public school in the Amendments Environmental p.m. State; authorizing teacher members to be appointed to the State Board although Affairs Oppose the individuals are subject to the authority of the State Board; requiring the 2/28/2018 - 1:00 Governor to appoint certain teacher members with the advice and consent of the p.m. Senate from a certain list submitted to the Governor by the State Department of Education after election by teachers in the State; etc. SB0740 State Department of Education – Breakfast and Lunch Programs – Funding Senator Passed Enrolled Budget and Ways and Means (Maryland Cares for Kids Act) - Repealing the requirement that the State Board Madaleno Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 Support of Education adopt and publish standards for the administration of a subsidized 3/7/2018 - 1:00 p.m. feeding program; requiring the State to be responsible for the student share of the p.m. costs of certain meals; prohibiting a county board from charging students eligible Education, for a reduced price breakfast or lunch for any portion of the cost of a meal; Health, and altering the calculation for the reimbursement for certain meals to certain county Environmental boards of education; etc. Affairs SB0763 Use of Public Funds - Playground and Athletic Field Surfaces - Preferences Senator Manno Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Budget and (HB0505) and Prohibitions - Establishing a preference for the use of state-of-the-art p.m. Taxation natural surface materials in any projects to construct playgrounds or athletic fields 3/7/2018 - 1:00 Oppose using public funds; prohibiting the use of State funds to finance any portion of a p.m. project to build a new, or replace an existing, playground or athletic field with a synthetic surface; and providing for the prospective application of the Ac SB0764 Local Governments - Income Tax Disparity Grants – Amounts - Altering the Senator Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 Budget and Appropriations (HB1624) calculation of certain income tax disparity grants to counties and Baltimore City Mathias p.m. Taxation 3/28/2018 - 1:00 under certain circumstances and for certain fiscal years; and extending a certain 3/7/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position termination provision by 2 years. p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0775 Education - Salaries of Noncertificated Public School Employees - Minimum Senator Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 Finance (HB1061) Living Salaries - Requiring that certain public school employees in certain areas Benson p.m. 3/15/2018 - 1:00 be paid at least certain minimum living salaries; specifying the minimum living p.m. Oppose salaries that are in effect for certain time periods; increasing the minimum living salaries in effect for certain time periods based on a certain Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers; requiring that a certain minimum living salary remain the same as the salary that was in effect for a certain time period under certain circumstances; etc. SB0778 Procurement - Payment Security - Construction Contracts - Increasing, to at Senator Unfavorable Report Education, least 100%, the amount of payment security a contractor is required to provide Hershey by Education, Health, Health, and No Position before a public body is authorized to award a construction contract. and Environmental Environmental Affairs Affairs 2/27/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB0779 Prince George's County - Education Trust Fund - Use of Fund - Altering the Senator Muse Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Budget and allowable uses of the Education Trust Fund; requiring the Governor to provide a p.m. Taxation certain annual appropriation to the Prince George's County Board of Education 3/7/2018 - 1:00 Local from the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2020; prohibiting certain money in the Fund p.m. from being used to supplant certain funding for certain programs and formulas; etc. SB0784 Pensions - Administrative and Operational Expenses - Limitation and Senator Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations (HB1018) Calculation - Increasing the administrative and operational expense cap of the Guzzone Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System and the State 2/22/2018 - 8:30 p.m. No Position Retirement Agency for fiscal years 2019 through 2022 under certain a.m. circumstances; altering the basis for the calculation of the administrative and operational expense cap; applying the Act; and making certain sections of the Act contingent on the taking effect of another Act. SB0788 Public Information Act – Revisions - Providing that, except as otherwise Senator Kagan Recommitted to Education, (HB1638) provided by law, the Public Information Act does not authorize a custodian of Education, Health, Health, and records to allow the inspection of the Social Security number or date of birth of an and Environmental Environmental Support individual except to a person in interest; requiring, except under certain Affairs (Senator Affairs circumstances, a custodian to deny inspection of a certain part of a personal Conway) 2/22/2018 - 1:00 surveillance video; requiring that a victim who is the subject of a record that is p.m. denied inspection be notified of all requests to inspect the record; etc. SB0818 Education - Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Senator Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 Budget and Ways and Means (HB1235) Program - Eligibility and Annual Appropriation - Authorizing certain schools to Madaleno p.m. (Ways and Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 remain eligible to participate in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Means) 3/7/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Breakfast Program under certain circumstances; requiring the Governor to include p.m. Appropriations Support an appropriation of $11,900,000 for the Program in the annual budget bill; etc. SB0819 Education – Collective Bargaining – Exclusive Representative’s Access to Senator Third Reading Passed Finance Ways and Means (HB0811) New Employee Processing - Requiring certain public school employers to Madaleno (88-48) 3/15/2018 - 1:00 3/22/2018 - 1:00 provide an exclusive representative with access to new employee processing; p.m. p.m. Oppose requiring that the structure, time, and manner of certain access be determined through certain negotiations; authorizing certain parties to request certain impasse proceedings under certain circumstances; requiring the public school 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
employer to provide the exclusive representative with certain information within 30 days of the date of hire or by the first pay period after the date of hire; etc. SB0820 State Budget - Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution Senator Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Budget and
authorizing the General Assembly to increase or add Executive Department items Madaleno p.m. Taxation No Position in the budget bill, subject to a certain limitation; providing for the veto by the 3/7/2018 - 1:00 Governor of only those items relating to the Executive Department that have been p.m. increased or added by the General Assembly; providing for the reversion to original appropriations of certain vetoed items in the budget bill; authorizing the General Assembly to override budget bill item vetoes; etc. SB0831 Public Safety - Elevator Inspections – Testing and Apprenticeship Program - Senator First Reading House Finance Rules and
(HB1107) Requiring that a certain test on an elevator unit performed in connection with a Middleton Rules and Executive 3/8/2018 - 1:00 Executive certain inspection be performed by a certain licensed elevator mechanic; requiring Nominations p.m. Nominations No Position a third-party qualified inspector to be physically present during a certain test in its entirety to witness that the test has been performed correctly and to verify the proper recording of the result; clarifying that a State inspector retains certain authority under the Act; etc.
SB0836 Expansion of Commercial Gaming - Referendum - Sports Wagering - Senator King Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Budget and Providing that the General Assembly may authorize, by law, the State Lottery and p.m. Taxation No Position Gaming Control Commission to issue certain sports wagering licenses; submitting 3/7/2018 - 1:00 the Act to a referendum of the qualified voters of the State; requiring the State p.m. Board of Elections to do certain things necessary to provide for and hold the referendum; etc.
SB0840 Youth Sports Programs - Concussion Risk and Management Training – Senator Smith Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0552) Requirements - Requiring the State Department of Education to educate, instead by Education, Health, Health, and of provide awareness to, coaches, school personnel, students, and the parents or and Environmental Environmental Oppose guardians of students on certain matters relating to concussions and head Affairs Affairs injuries; requiring an individual who has completed concussion risk and 2/28/2018 - 1:00 management training or is a licensed health care provider to be responsible for p.m. on-site management of all concussion and head injuries during each practice and Finance game, including certain decisions; etc. SB0842 Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Eligibility - High School Senator Third Reading Passed Education, Ways and Means
(HB0781) Diploma by Examination - Specifying that a requirement under the Delegate Conway (139-0) Health, and 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Howard P. Rawlings Program of Educational Excellence Awards to obtain a high Environmental p.m. Support school diploma shall be satisfied if an individual has obtained a high school Affairs diploma by examination. 2/28/2018 - 1:00 p.m.
SB0857 Baltimore City - Table Games Proceeds - Distribution and Recreational Senator Oaks Hearing 3/08 at 2:00 Budget and Facilities - Altering the distribution of certain proceeds of table games paid to p.m. Taxation Local Baltimore City; requiring that 49.5% of the proceeds be used for school 3/8/2018 - 2:00 construction projects, 49.5% of the proceeds are to be used for recreational p.m. facilities and 1% of the proceeds is to be paid to the Small, Minority, and Women- Owned Businesses Account; and providing that the proceeds of table games paid to Baltimore City to be used for recreational facilities may be used only to supplement and not to supplant existing expenses or obligations. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0888 Washington County Board of Education - Teachers and Other Personnel - Washington Unfavorable Report Finance Conclusion of Negotiations - Requiring parties to collective bargaining County by Finance;
Local negotiations for teachers and other personnel in Washington County to make Senators Withdrawn reasonable efforts to conclude negotiations in a timely manner; and requiring that, if parties are unable to conclude negotiations by a certain budget submission deadline, the terms and conditions of the most recent negotiated agreement shall remain in force and effect, and without change, for the next fiscal year. SB0899 State Retirement and Pension System - Investment Division - Clarifying that Senator Passed Enrolled Budget and Appropriations
(HB1012) the compensation of the Executive Director for the State Retirement Agency and Guzzone Taxation certain staff shall be as provided in the State budget; requiring the Board of 2/22/2018 - 8:30 No Position Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt certain criteria for a.m. setting the qualifications and compensation of the Chief Investment Officer for the State Retirement and Pension System; prohibiting certain adjustments to the compensation of the Chief Investment Officer; etc.
SB0904 Public Schools – Social Media Use by Educators - Requiring the State Board Senator Waugh Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means of Education to develop a certain model policy for public schools regarding the p.m. Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 use of social media by educators; requiring the model policy to include certain Environmental p.m. Support w/ Amendments guidelines and model forms; requiring each local school system to establish a Affairs certain policy regarding the use of social media and to provide certain training; 3/7/2018 - 1:00 prohibiting an educator from publishing a work product or image of a student on a p.m. social media personal account; etc. SB0933 College Affordability – Maryland 529 Plans and Student Loan Debt Relief Senator Third Reading Passed Budget and Appropriations
(HB1341) Tax Credit – Revisions - Requiring the Maryland 529 Board to develop an Kasemeyer with Amendments Taxation 4/3/2018 - 1:00 application form for a certain State contribution program that includes certain (131-0) 3/13/2018 - 1:00 p.m. No Position information; altering the time period during which a certain contribution must be p.m. made to receive a certain State matching contribution; requiring the Governor to provide appropriations of $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2019 and each fiscal year thereafter; altering the date by which the Board is required to develop and implement an outreach and marketing plan; etc. SB0949 Career Education Policy Act - Requiring public high schools to make students Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
(HB1599) aware of certain employment and skills training opportunities through certain Rosapepe by Education, Health, Health, and apprenticeship sponsors and employers; specifying that a requirement to earn a and Environmental Environmental Oppose credit in technology education to graduate may be satisfied by completing certain Affairs Affairs courses selected by the county board; authorizing certain applicants for legislative 2/28/2018 - 1:00 scholarships to be enrolled in Workforce Development Sequence courses or be p.m. participating in an apprenticeship training program; etc. Finance
SB0964 Social Services - Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program Senator Lee Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 Finance Judiciary (HB1494) - Establishing the Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program; p.m. 3/15/2018 - 1:00 4/3/2018 - 1:00 providing for the purpose of the pilot program; requiring the local departments of p.m. p.m. social services in Baltimore and Washington counties to implement the pilot No Position program; requiring certain local departments of social services to refer certain children to the Regional Child Trafficking Advocate within a 24 hours of identification; requiring the Secretary of State, after consultation with certain entities, to appoint certain Advocates; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB0968 Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Senator Returned Passed Finance Economic Matters
(HB0243) Study and Extension - Requiring the Task Force on Rural, Internet, Broadband, Eckardt 2/22/2018 - 1:00 Wireless, and Cellular Service, in conducting a certain study, to solicit input from p.m. No Position local governments, Internet service providers, and wireless service providers on identifying unserved and underserved areas in Western Maryland counties, Southern Maryland counties, Eastern Shore counties, and Frederick, Carroll, and Harford counties; extending the date by which the Task Force must report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly to November 30, 2018; etc. SB0977 Behavioral Health Services and Voluntary Placement Agreements - Children Senator Returned Passed Finance Health and
(HB1517) and Young Adults – Reports - Requiring the Director of the Behavioral Health Klausmeier 2/21/2018 - 1:00 Government Administration to prepare a certain annual report on behavioral health services for p.m. Operations No Position children and young adults in the State; requiring the Social Services 3/27/2018 - 1:00 Administration to prepare a certain annual report; etc. p.m. SB0978 Career Preparation Expansion Act - Requiring the Department of Labor, Senator Favorable with Education, Economic Matters
(HB1216) Licensing, and Regulation to develop a certain mobile application to target Klausmeier Amendments Report Health, and Ways and Means industry employers where skills align with the skills developed through by Economic Matters Environmental No Position membership in the Career Technology Student Organization; requiring the State Affairs Department of Education to adopt regulations requiring the award of high school 2/28/2018 - 1:00 credit for certain apprenticeship programs; requiring the Secretary of Labor, p.m. Licensing, and Regulation to require certain information from each employing unit; Finance etc.
SB0998 State Department of Education - REAL School Gardens Pilot Program – Senator Peters Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means Established - Establishing the REAL School Gardens Pilot Program; specifying p.m. Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00 No Position the purpose of the Program; requiring certain counties to implement the Program; Environmental p.m. requiring the State Department of Education to implement the Program in Affairs coordination with REAL School Gardens; requiring the Governor's proposed 3/7/2018 - 1:00 budget for fiscal year 2020 to appropriate $200,000 to the Department to be used p.m. only for the Program; requiring the Department to obtain the services of an independent third party to conduct a certain review on or before June 30, 2020; etc. SB1016 State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Senator First Reading House Finance Rules and
(HB1131) Expansion of Participating Units - Requiring that, on the termination of any Rosapepe Rules and Executive 3/15/2018 - 1:00 Executive health benefits contract that exists on July 1, 2018, a county, municipal Nominations p.m. Nominations Oppose corporation, or county board must enroll and participate in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; requiring the Program to encompass all units in all county governments, municipal corporations, and county boards; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to adopt certain regulations specifying certain employees who are eligible to participate in the Program with certain subsidies; etc. SB1020 Procurement - Architectural Services and Engineering Services - Reciprocal Senator Second Reading Education, Health and
(HB1557) Preference - Requiring a unit to give a certain preference under certain Conway Passed Health, and Government circumstances to a certain resident firm that is licensed or otherwise authorized to Environmental Operations No Position provide architectural services or engineering services in the State; requiring a Affairs 3/29/2018 - 1:00 certain nonresident firm to submit certain documentation concerning certain 2/27/2018 - 1:00 p.m. p.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
preferences to a unit at the request of the unit; requiring a unit to apply certain preferences to certain proposals in a certain manner; etc.
SB1041 Education – Teacher Certification – Montessori Schools - Making an Senator Smith Unfavorable Report Education, (HB1002) individual eligible for a certificate to teach students in a Montessori school if the by Education, Health, Health, and individual meets certain requirements; authorizing the State Board of Education to and Environmental Environmental require an individual to successfully pass an examination to be certified under the Affairs Affairs Oppose Act; providing that, subject to a certain exception, an individual that satisfies the 3/7/2018 - 1:00 requirements under the Act may not be required to meet any additional p.m. requirements to be certified to teach students at a Montessori school; etc.
SB1042 Access to Maryland Courts Act - Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing Senator Smith Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Judicial (HB1270) plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to p.m. Proceedings remedy a violation of a certain provision of the Maryland Constitution or the 2/21/2018 - 1:00 No Position Maryland Declaration of Rights; authorizing a court to award reasonable p.m. attorney's fees and expenses to a prevailing defendant under certain circumstances; providing that the combined total of certain damages and certain attorney's fees and expenses awarded may not exceed certain limits on liability; etc.
SB1060 Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools - Discrimination – Senator Kagan Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 Judicial (HB1565) Prohibition - Prohibiting a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that p.m. Proceedings receives State funds from refusing enrollment of, expelling, withholding privileges 2/21/2018 - 1:00 from, or otherwise discriminating against any student or prospective student p.m. Support because of certain factors; making certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination in employment applicable to certain schools that receive State funds; requiring a nonpublic school that is found to have engaged in or be engaging in a certain discriminatory act to repay to the General Fund all State funds; etc. SB1065 Public Schools - Agricultural Education Programs - Encouraging each county Senator Bates Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0870) board of education to implement an agricultural education program that prepares by Education, Health, Health, and students for successful careers and informed choices relating to certain systems and Environmental Environmental No Position and for opportunities in agriculture-related employment and higher education by Affairs Affairs providing instruction and developing skills in certain areas through certain 3/14/2018 - 1:00 integrated classroom and laboratory instruction, supervised agricultural p.m. experiences, and leadership experiences and involvement in student organizations.
SB1071 Task Force to Study Access to Home Health Care for Children and Adults Senator Waugh First Reading House Finance Rules and (HB1696) With Medical Disabilities and Report on Home– and Community–Based Rules and Executive 3/21/2018 - 1:00 Executive Services - Establishing the Task Force to Study Access to Home Health Care for Nominations p.m. Nominations Children and Adults with Medical Disabilities; requiring the Task Force to make No Position recommendations for improving access to home health care in all areas of the State, including on reimbursement rates; requiring the Task Force to report to certain committees of the General Assembly by November 30, 2018; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to compare reimbursement rates and certain requirements and report its findings to the General Assembly by November 30, 2018; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB1080 Assembly Areas - State-Funded Construction or Renovation - Assistive Senator Muse Unfavorable Report Education, (HB0138) Listening System Requirement - Requiring certain recipients of State funds to by Education, Health, Health, and install an assistive listening system in an assembly area during construction or and Environmental Environmental No Position renovation of the assembly area under certain circumstances; requiring the Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs Department of General Services to establish a certain waiver process and a certain penalty process relating to the requirement to install an assistive listening system in an assembly area during construction or renovation of the assembly area; authorizing the Department to adopt certain regulations; etc.
SB1092 Education - Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education - President Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 Education, (HB1415) Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with certain entities, p.m. (Education, Health, and to establish a certain outreach program; establishing the Maryland Early Literacy Health, and Environmental Support Initiative in the Department; establishing the Learning in Extended Academic Environmental Affairs) Affairs Programs (LEAP) grant program; altering certain eligibility requirements for the 3/7/2018 - 1:00 Teaching Fellows for Maryland scholarship program; establishing a Career and p.m. Technology Education Innovation Grant; extending the final report date for the Budget and Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; etc. Taxation SB1103 Education – Voluntary Ethical Special Education Advocate Certificate Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
(HB0966) Program - Requiring the State Department of Education to establish the Nathan-Pulliam by Education, Health, Health, and Voluntary Ethical Special Education Advocate Certificate Program on or before and Environmental Environmental No Position July 1, 2019, for administration of a voluntary certificate program for ethical Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs special education advocates; specifying qualifications and application procedures 3/14/2018 - 1:00 for a certificate; requiring the Department to issue a certificate to a certain p.m. applicant; authorizing an applicant to petition for judicial review of a decision of the Department that relates to issuing or renewing a certificate; etc. SB1105 Baltimore County - Superintendent of Schools - Prohibition on Other Senator Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 Education, Ways and Means
Employment - Prohibiting the Baltimore County Superintendent of Schools from Brochin p.m. Health, and 4/3/2018 - 1:00 Local engaging in other employment; and providing for the application of the Act. Environmental p.m. Affairs 3/15/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB1122 Education – Commercial Gaming Revenues – Constitutional Amendment - Senator Second Reading Budget and Appropriations (HB1697) Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to limit the uses of certain Conway Passed Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 revenues to educational opportunities and programs for the children of the State 3/8/2018 - 2:00 p.m. in public schools, the advancement of educators, and the construction of school p.m. Ways and Means Support facilities; requiring the Governor to include in the budget submission certain amounts in certain fiscal years as supplemental funding for certain purposes; requiring that certain funding be in addition to State funding provided for certain grades in public schools in fiscal year 2020; etc. SB1134 Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council - Establishing the Juvenile Justice Senator Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 Judicial
(HB1524) Coordinating Council; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Ferguson p.m. Proceedings Council; prohibiting a member of the Council from receiving certain compensation, 3/13/2018 - 1:00 No Position but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; specifying the duties of p.m. the Council; authorizing the Council to request certain technical assistance; requiring the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB1141 Maryland Education Opportunity Act of 2018 - Exempting recent high school Senator Unfavorable Report Education,
(HB1203) graduates from payment of tuition to attend a community college in the State Nathan-Pulliam by Education, Health, Health, and under certain circumstances; providing a 50% discount on tuition to individuals and Environmental Environmental No Position who do not have a high school diploma or GED and have been unemployed for at Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs least 6 months but who have been seeking employment and who are attending a 3/15/2018 - 1:00 community college and seeking vocational certificates or associate's degrees; p.m. requiring the State to reimburse community colleges for foregone tuition revenue; etc. SB1145 County Boards of Education - Leasing of School Property - Authorizing Senator Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 Budget and
certain exceptions to the requirement that certain public school property must be Serafini p.m. Taxation Oppose held in trust by a county board of education; authorizing a county or a county 3/15/2018 - 1:00 board to lease certain property; and excluding certain lease payments made by a p.m. county board of education from the maintenance of effort calculation. SB1146 Public Schools - School Construction - Approval, Design, and Funding - Senator Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 Budget and
Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations that direct the Serafini p.m. Taxation Oppose Interagency Committee on School Construction to establish timelines for certain 3/13/2018 - 1:00 public school construction approvals and to establish certain standard design p.m. models for the construction of elementary, middle, and high schools; and requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations that establish per-pupil State school construction funding amounts under certain conditions. SB1147 Juveniles – Reportable Offenses - Making it mandatory for a certain local Washington Unfavorable Report Judicial (HB1702) superintendent of schools or school principal to transmit certain information County by Judicial Proceedings
concerning the arrest of a student for a certain reportable offense or offense Senators Proceedings 3/13/2018 - 1:00 Support related to the student's membership in a criminal gang and the disposition of a p.m. certain offense as a confidential file to the local superintendent of another school in the State in which the student has enrolled or to which the student has been transferred for certain purposes under certain circumstances; etc. SB1148 Washington County - Advisory School Design Review Committee – Repeal - Washington Favorable Report by Budget and Appropriations (HB1704) Repealing a provision of law requiring the Washington County Commissioners to County Appropriations Taxation 3/28/2018 - 1:00
establish an Advisory School Design Review Committee; repealing provisions Senators 3/15/2018 - 1:00 p.m. Local establishing the Committee's duties and relating to the review of the Committee's p.m. comments and recommendations; repealing a provision requiring the Washington County Board of Education to provide a certain schedule of project milestones to the Committee; and making the Act an emergency measure. SB1162 Washington County - Superintendent of Schools - Appointment and Washington Favorable Report by Education, Ways and Means (HB1712) Reappointment - Repealing the exemption of the Washington County County Ways and Means Health, and 3/29/2018 - 1:00
Superintendent of Schools and the Washington County Board of Education from Senators Environmental p.m. certain requirements that relate to the appointment and reappointment of the Affairs Local Superintendent. 3/14/2018 - 1:00 p.m. SB1183 Public School Construction Assessment and Maintenance Reform Act - Senator Hearing 3/15 at 1:45 Budget and
(HB1495) Requiring the Interagency Committee on School Construction to develop and Ferguson p.m. Taxation adopt certain educational facilities sufficiency standards, to create the Maryland 3/15/2018 - 1:45 School Facility Condition Index, and to conduct a statewide facility assessment on p.m. Oppose or before January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter; requiring the Interagency Committee to establish rankings based on certain criteria; requiring certain 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
conditions for the statewide facility assessment; requiring the Interagency Committee to compare certain data; etc. SB1185 Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Waiver for Children With Autism Senator Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 Finance
Spectrum Disorder - Waiting List - Requiring the Maryland Department of Simonaire p.m. 3/21/2018 - 1:00 No Position Health and the State Department of Education jointly to develop a process to p.m. review each year the waiting list for children to receive services through the Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder; requiring the review process to include a requirement that an individual be a resident of the State to be added to or remain on the waiting list; etc. SB1188 Wireless Facilities - Permitting and Siting - Prohibiting a local government from Senator Hearing canceled Finance
(HB1767) entering into certain types of exclusive agreements under certain circumstances; Middleton authorizing a local government to impose certain rates and fees for certain No Position purposes under certain circumstances; authorizing a wireless provider to collocate certain wireless facilities and poles in certain places under certain circumstances; providing that certain uses of land are permitted uses and not subject to local zoning review or approval; etc. SB1196 Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring System Fines - After-Prom Parties - Senator Unfavorable Report Judicial (HB1754) Authorizing Baltimore County annually to spend, from the fines collected as a Klausmeier by Judicial Proceedings result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems in school zones, up to Proceedings 3/13/2018 - 1:00 $5,000 per public high school for after-prom parties. p.m. Local SB1204 Baltimore City - Education - Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Senator Unfavorable Report Education, Instructors - Altering the definition of "public school employee" for Baltimore City Robinson by Education, Health, Health, and Local to include Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) instructors for the and Environmental Environmental purpose of authorizing collective bargaining for JROTC instructors. Affairs; Withdrawn Affairs
SB1213 Public Schools - Student Discipline - Suspensions and Expulsions - Senator Unfavorable Report Education, Requiring the county superintendent of schools or the county superintendent's Serafini by Education, Health, Health, and No Position designated representative, when making a decision to extend a student's and Environmental Environmental suspension, to complete a certain investigation by the 10th day of a student's Affairs Affairs initial suspension; requiring a certain student to return to school after a 3/15/2018 - 1:00 suspension if a certain investigation has not been completed within a certain p.m. period of time except under certain circumstances; requiring a county board to provide access to a certain student to the student's assignments; etc. SB1221 Public School Construction - Incentive Program and Pilot Program – Senator Hearing 3/15 at 1:45 Budget and
Established - Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations that Serafini p.m. Taxation Oppose establish per-pupil State school construction funding amounts under certain 3/15/2018 - 1:45 conditions; requiring the Interagency Committee on School Construction to p.m. conduct by January 1, 2019, an initial statewide facilities assessment; establishing the Public School Facility Construction Incentive Program; establishing the Public School Facility Construction Pilot Program to encourage innovative public school facility construction projects; etc. SB1224 Procurement - Prevailing Wage – Modifications - Altering the definition of Senator First Reading Senate Rules "public body" to increase, from 25% to 50%, the percentage of money used for Serafini Rules Support construction that must be State money for a certain entity or person to be included 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
with respect to the construction of an elementary or secondary school for purposes of certain provisions of law governing the prevailing wage; authorizing the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to set regional prevailing wage rates for each classification of worker engaged in work of the same or similar character for certain regions; etc. SB1226 Primary and Secondary Schools - Armed School Resource Officers - Senator Rereferred to Education, (HB1801) Requiring each public school to have an armed school resource officer present on Jennings Education, Health, Health, and school grounds during regular school hours on school days; requiring the and Environmental Environmental Oppose Department of State Police to assign a State Police officer to a certain public Affairs Affairs school under certain circumstances; requiring a certain State Police officer to be present on school grounds during regular school hours on school days and to carry a firearm; and authorizing a private school to have an armed school resource officer present on school grounds. SB1227 State Education Aid - Mandated Educational Requirements - County Board Senator Ready Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 Budget and Opt-Out - Providing that if less than 45% of a county board's 3-year moving p.m. Taxation Oppose average annual budget is funded by the State, the county board may, in the 3/22/2018 - 1:00 following school year, opt out of certain mandated educational requirements; p.m. requiring certain county boards to follow federally mandated education requirements; etc. SB1239 Appointment or Designation of Standby Guardian - Immigration Action Senator Smith Second Reading Rules (HB1613) Against a Parent - Making certain provisions relating to the appointment or Passed with designation of a standby guardian of the person or property of a minor in cases of Amendments incapacity, debilitation, or death of a parent applicable to the appointment or No Position designation of a standby guardian of the person or property of a minor in the case of removal from the United States of a parent; etc. SB1243 21st Century School Facilities Act - Altering the requirements for awarding Senator Hearing 3/15 at 1:45 Budget and (HB1783) contracts to bidders for school buildings; requiring the Interagency Committee on DeGrange p.m. Taxation School Construction to conduct a certain facility assessment; specifying the 3/15/2018 - 1:45 Support w/ process for the review and approval of public school construction projects; p.m. Amendments establishing the Local Share of School Construction Costs Revolving Loan Fund; declaring the intent of the General Assembly regarding funding for public school construction; etc. SB1249 Prince George's County - School Facilities and Public Safety Surcharges - Senator Referred to Budget and (HB1818) Maryland Transit Administration Station - Providing for a certain reduction in Rosapepe Environment and Taxation the school facilities surcharge in Prince George's County for certain residential Transportation 3/15/2018 - 1:45 Local housing that is constructed within a certain distance of a MARC station or a p.m. Purple Line station; providing for an exemption from the school facilities surcharge for certain dwelling units that are constructed within a certain distance of a MARC station or a Purple Line station; etc. SB1250 Criminal Law - Threat of Mass Violence and Deadly Weapons on Public Senator Lee Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 Judicial Judiciary (HB1807) School Property - Altering a certain prohibition relating to threatening to commit p.m. Proceedings 4/4/2018 - 1:00 a certain crime of violence so as to prohibit a person from knowingly threatening 3/15/2018 - 1:00 p.m. to commit or threatening to cause to be committed a certain crime of violence that p.m. would place five or more minors at substantial risk of death or serious physical No Position injury if the threat were carried out; altering and establishing certain penalties; etc. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
SB1252 Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Senator Peters Returned Passed Budget and Appropriations Reemployment Earnings Limitation - Correcting certain requirements Taxation 3/29/2018 - 1:00 No Position pertaining to a certain earnings limitation to certain retirees of the Employees' and 3/15/2018 - 1:45 p.m. Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; exempting certain retirees from a p.m. certain earnings limitation under certain circumstances; requiring certain participating employers to pay a certain offset under certain circumstances; providing that certain retirees are entitled to certain reimbursement for a certain reemployment earnings offset under certain circumstances; etc. SB1257 Safe Schools Act of 2018 - Requiring each county board of education to employ President Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 Education, (HB1816) a designated security administrator; requiring each county board to prepare a p.m. (Education, Health, and school emergency plan for all public schools in the county; requiring each county Health, and Environmental No Position board to perform a safety assessment of each public school in the county each Environmental Affairs) Affairs year; requiring each county board to establish a school threat assessment team; 3/15/2018 - 1:00 establishing the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to county boards for the p.m. implementation of approved emergency plans; etc. Budget and Taxation
SB1258 Commitment to Education Act of 2018 - Requiring money in the Education President Hearing 3/15 at 1:45 Budget and (HB1815) Trust Fund to be expended in a certain manner in certain fiscal years; requiring p.m. Taxation certain percentages of the money in the Education Trust Fund to be supplemental 3/15/2018 - 1:45 to funding for certain programs and formulas beginning in fiscal year 2020; and p.m. Support prohibiting the use of certain funds on school construction projects that the State has approved for planning and for which a local education agency has paid some portion of the State share with local funds. SB1262 Public Safety - Background Information for Firearm License Investigations - Senator Astle Hearing 3/23 at 11:30 Judicial School Crisis Welfare Officers (School Safety Act 2018: Prevention) - a.m. Proceedings No Position Requiring the Secretary of State Police to request certain assistance from certain 3/23/2018 - 11:30 officials, the courts of the State, and health care facilities in the State in a.m. conducting an investigation of an applicant for a certain firearm license; establishing the Workgroup on Accurate and Integrated Background Information on Applicants for Firearm Licenses to study how investigations for applicants for firearms licenses are conducted and to recommend the best methods for obtaining the most comprehensive information on applicants; etc. SB1263 Public Safety – School Mental Health Services and Mental Disorder Weapon Senator Waugh Hearing 3/23 at 11:30 Judicial Restraining Order (School Safety Act of 2018: Anticipation) - Altering a a.m. (Judicial Proceedings certain prohibition on making certain threats to commit or cause to be committed Proceedings) 3/23/2018 - 11:30 Support w/ Amendments a crime of violence; requiring the State Department of Education to develop a a.m. certain model policy for the establishment of a threat assessment team by Education, January 1, 2019; authorizing a certain petitioner, under certain circumstances, to Health, and file a petition for a certain restraining order alleging that, due to a mental disorder, Environmental a certain respondent is a danger to self or the person or property of another; etc. Affairs
SB1264 Primary and Secondary Schools - Law Enforcement Presence (School Senator Hearing 3/23 at 11:30 Judicial Safety Act 2018: Deterrence) - Requiring each public school to have an armed Jennings a.m. Proceedings
Oppose school resource officer present on school grounds during regular school hours on 3/23/2018 - 11:30 school days; requiring the Department of State Police to assign a State Police a.m. 2018 Education Legislation MABE Positions & Bill Status Current Status 2018 Regular Session Total: 421 April 6, 2018
officer to a certain public school under certain circumstances; authorizing a private school to have an armed school resource officer on school grounds; requiring a local law enforcement agency to collaborate with a local public school to establish a reasonable time for responding to an emergency at the public school; etc. SB1265 Education – School Safety Protection Standards and Grant Program – Senator Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 Budget and Established (School Safety Act of 2018: Protection) - Requiring each public Klausmeier p.m. Taxation Support w/ school in the State, by the 2020-2021 school year, to have secure, lockable 3/22/2018 - 1:00 Amendments classroom doors, an area of safe refuge in each classroom, and security p.m. Ways and Means technology for school monitoring purposes; requiring the State Department of 4/6/2018 - 1:00 Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Center for School Safety, to adopt p.m. certain school safety facility requirements; requiring each public school to complete an active threat drill beginning in the 2019-2020 school year; establishing the School Safety Grant Program; etc. SJ0002 Commemoration of the 46th Anniversary of the Passage of Title IX - Senator Reilly Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 Education, No Position Commemorating the 46th anniversary of the passage of Title IX of the federal p.m. Health, and Education Amendments of 1972. Environmental Affairs 3/2/2018 - 1:00 p.m.