| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the county board to include in its master plan to improve student achievement a description of how it plans to ensure and measure academic proficiency in specified core academic subjects for students. Adds social studies and science to list of core academic subjects. Requires that the state board and state superintendent implement assessment programs in core academic subjects that provide information needed to improve public schools; inform the public annually of the educational progress made at each school; and provide timely feedback to schools and teachers. Requires that by the beginning of 2014-2015 a grade-band assessment is administered annually to middle school students and an end-of-course assessment of administered annually to high school students each aligned to the Common Core curricula or the state adopted curricula in the core content areas. Removes the requirement that a grade-band assessment be administered at the elementary level. Requires that the State Board make a determination after the 2014-2015 school year whether the assessments accurately measure the curricula and in the event that it does not, the Department is required to develop a state-level assessment to be administered in the 2016-2017 school year. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1227t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1227
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Northeast Maryland Higher Education Advisory Board to support the development of higher education in two rural counties in Maryland. Requires representatives on Board to include members from the regional business industries and from the county offices of economic development. Determines that the Board must, among other things, assist and support development of higher education in the two counties and provide guidance and support in iddentifying institutions and programs to serve higher education and workforce needs in the counties.http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0362e.pdf
Title: H.B. 362
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the Maryland State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Management and the Department of Legislative Services to contract with a public or private entity to conduct a study of the adequacy of education funding in the State no later than June 30, 2014. During the first phase of the study, the State Department of Education is required to study the establishment of a policy on maximum student enrollment in public schools. Identifies what should be included in study with one notable requirement of inclusion to incorporate standards from the Common Core curriculum adopted by the State Board of Education and 2 years of results from the new common core assessments, which are scheduled to be implemented beginning in the 2014–2015 school year. Requires study completion December 1, 2016. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1214e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1214
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Removes the expectation of county superintendents to report on matters relating to students growth, health, and well-being. Requires the State Department of Education to report specified information to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning specified matters relating to student growth, health, and well-being, such as diabetes and treatment prevention, on or before December 1, 2012, and every 5 years thereafter; and encourages county boards of education to incorporate specified lessons on, among others, health education, including the importance of physical activity in maintaining good health, and a healthful school environment, into the county boards' health education curriculum. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0009e.pdf
Title: H.B. 9
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes certain county boards of education to request that the State Department of Education develop or review and approve certain online courses and services.
Requires that the Department develop or review and approve certain courses and services or delegate that authority to certain county boards; Requires that the Department ensure that online courses and services developed or reviewed and approved include specifications that allow for access by students with disabilities, including blindness. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0674t.pdf
Title: S.B. 674
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizing a county board of education to procure online courses and services that the county board has approved as being high quality and in alignment with specified State standards; requiring a county board that has approved an online course to submit a specified report to the State Department of Education; and making the Act an emergency measure. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1219t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1219
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Instructs the commission to calculate an amount for the annual apportionment for each regional higher education center using a specified funding formula. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1228t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1228
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires institutions of postsecondary education that enroll Maryland students in fully online distance education programs in the State to register with the Maryland Higher Education Commission before commencing or continuing to operate, doing business, or functioning in the State within 6 months of enrolling the first Maryland student under specified circumstances; prohibits not accredited institutions from operating in the State; determines the process by which the Commission can confirm or deny a certificate of approval and the corresponding hearings process for denials; defines a fully online distance education program in the state and determines specified programs to require a certificate; provides a detailed list of submission requirements for postsecondary institutions to obtain certification; directs the Commission to post on its website a list of certified institutions and those institutions denied certification as well as report information to the Governor; requires the institution to furnish a performance bond of financial guarantee conditioned on a specified number of factors after three consecutive years of no claims being made against the institution; requires the Commission to report to the Governor on any claims made against certified institutions. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1223t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1223
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Participation |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes a Student Transfer Advisory Committee that is to review and analyze articulation and student support services, including admission and advising practices and any other student transfer related issues referred to the Committee by the Maryland Higher Education Commission; Requires the Committee to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 1, 2013, and each odd-numbered year thereafter. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0967t.pdf
Title: S.B. 967
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study on the costs and benefits (specifications detailed in bill) of establishing an electronic reader pilot program in certain public middle schools or high schools in the State; Requires the Department to determine whether to establish the pilot program, and report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1220t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1220
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Extends the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program to include summer programs. Provides that only nonpreofit organizations are eligible to receive a grant. Directs the executive committee to ensure funds are granted to nonprofit organizations in all geographic areas of the state as equitably as possible. Permits the executive committee to award a capacity building grant from the fund to assist nonprofit organizations to increase staff capacity, training, and sustainability of the programs.http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0886t.pdf
Title: H.B. 886
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
State Policymaking--Task Forces/Commissions |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Maryland Advisory Council for Virtual Learning within the Department of Education, with the mission of the council to encourage and support the education of students in accordance with national standards of online learning and state law. Requires that the council meet four times per year and make recommendations regarding subject areas specified in the bill. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0745t.pdf
Title: H.B. 745
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that the county board include in its goals to improve student academic achievement a description of how it plans to ensure and measure academic proficiency of students in core academic subjects at various points during the elementary and secondary education of students.
Adds requirements that The State Board, the State Superintendent, each county board, and each public school must include in its program of education accountability for the operation and management of the public schools: (1) establish educational goals and objectives and survey current student achievement in science and social studies; (2) implement assessment programs in reading, language, math, science, and social studies that include written responses and specifies that the assessment program must be able to provide information needed to improve public schools, inform the public, and provide timely feedback to schools and teachers; (3) implement and administer middle-school and high-school assessments annually beginning in 2014-2015 school year that measure student's mastery of core academic standards; (4) determine if assessments are truly measuring students mastery of core academic standards following 2014-2015 school year and for those that do not adequately measure, replace with a state-specific assessment by the 2016-2017 school year.
Requires that the Department survey a statewide representative sample of public schools and public school teacher annually on the amount of instructional time spent on, the availability and use of instructional resource for, and the professional development available to social studies and science instruction, as well as, the number of certified and non-certified teachers teaching social studies and science. Results are to be published on Department's website.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0293e.pdf
Title: S.B. 293
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Raises from 16 to 17 the maximum age at which children are required to attend a public school regularly during the entire school year, subject to specified exceptions. To take effect July 1, 2015. Raises the maximum age from 17 to 18, with specified exception to take effective July 1, 2017.
Requires the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2012 to develop a GED Options Program and request the departmental legislation necessary to implement the Program.
Requires that, the State Department of Education on or before September 1, 2013 report on: (1) successful interventions at the early childhood and elementary school level; (2) best practices for parental education and involvement; and (3) alternative educational pathways.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0362e.pdf
Title: S.B. 362
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires a county to apply to the board for a waiver from the Maintenance of Effort requirement if it cannot be funded and establishes penalties if a waiver is not applied for. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/chapters_noln/Ch_6_sb0848T.pdf
Title: S.B. 848
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Adds a reason that any resident of the state who is out of the workforce by reason of total and permanent disability who enrolls at a community college in a class that has at least 10 regularly enrolled students can be exempt from payment of tuition: for continuing education instruction designed to lead to employment, including life skills instruction. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/chapters_noln/Ch_83_hb0053T.pdf
Title: H.B. 53
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with specified organizations and health care providers, to develop a model policy for preseason-practice heat acclimatization guidelines for student athletes. Requires local boards of education to adopt preseason-practice heat acclimatization guidelines for student athletes. Requires specified guidelines to include requirements for the duration of a practice time, a walk-through, and a recovery period during preseason practice. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb1080t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1080
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Conforms the provisions of state law relating to discrimination in the employment of public school employees to other provisions of state law governing discrimination in employment by adding ancestry, age, marital status, and sexual orientation as protected classes. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_322_hb0202T.pdf
Title: H.B. 202
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Clarifies and amends the requirements for obtaining an exemption from the payment of tuition at community colleges for specified disabled individuals. Allows an individual who is out of work due to a disability to obtain a tuition waiver at a community college (previous law provided this excemption only for someone who is retired). Provides that the tuition waiver is limited to 6 credits per semester or to 12 credits per semester if the individual is enrolled in classes as part of a degree or a certificate program designed to lead to employment. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0104t.pdf
Title: H.B. 104
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government within the General Assembly to provide continuing legislative oversight regarding transparency and open government, and to recommend initiatives that increase citizen access to government resources, publications, and actions. Specifies that a public body subject to the Open Meetings Act does not need to prepare written minutes of an open session if (1) live and archived video or audio streaming of the open session is available; or (2) if individual public votes on legislation taken by members of the public body are posted promptly on the Internet. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_508_sb0644E.pdf
Title: S.B. 644
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Department of Education to develop an informational form that lists and explains the various paths that can be taken in order to obtain certification and tenure in the state and must post the form on its website. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0687e.pdf
Title: S.B. 687
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Department of Education, in collaboration with specified entities, to develop policies and to implement a program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, students, and parents or guardians of students on the risk of concussions and head injuries. Requires a county board of education to provide a specified information sheet to a student and parent or guardian for student and parent or guardian to sign. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_549_hb0858E.pdf
Title: H.B. 858
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Department of Education, in collaboration with specified entities, to develop policies and implement a program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, students, and parents or guardians of students on the risk of concussions and head injuries; requiring county boards of education to provide specified information to students, parents, and guardians. Requires the removal from play of specified students or youth athletes under specified circumstances. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_548_sb0771E.pdf
Title: S.B. 771
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal Justice System. Requires the task force to study high school dropout statistics of specified persons in the criminal justice system, obtain specified data, and make recommendations in a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_286_sb0755T.pdf
Title: S.B. 755
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 Health and Mental Health |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes a permanent Hearing Aid Loan Bank Program ("the Program") in the state Department of Education for the purpose of lending hearing aids on a temporary basis to a parent or legal guaridan of an eligible child to ensure that children under the age of 3 years will have maximum hearing during the critical period of language learning. Specifies criteria for eligibility under the Program and directs the state board of education to adopt specified Program regulations. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb1013t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1013
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Establishes a task force to study the creation of a Regional Higher Education Center in Northeastern Maryland; Provides for the membership, chair, and staffing of the task force. Requires the task force to study and make recommendations regarding the higher education needs of the Northeastern Maryland region. Requires the task force to meet at least monthly and report its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2011. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb1156t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1156
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Task Force on Funding a Green Technology, Life Science, and Health Information Technology Loan Assistance Repayment Program. Requires the Task Force to conduct a study and make recommendations on or before December 31, 2011, for a program that assists graduates who earned a degree in a field relating to green technology or specified related fields to repay a federal or state higher education loan. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_360_hb0758T.pdf
Title: H.B. 758
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Task Force to Study the Impact of Adjunct Faculty on Graduation Rates at Historically Black Institutions in the State. Requires the task force to make specified findings and recommendations, and report to the governor and specified committees by January 1, 2013. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_223_sb0347T.pdf
Title: S.B. 347
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
From Department of Legislative Services Fiscal and Policy Note: Distinguishes between public, private nonprofit, and for-profit institutions of higher education. Clarifies the scope of the Maryland Consumer Protection Act to include the unfair or deceptive offer for sale of course credit or other educational services. Creates a separate and distinct Guaranty Fund to reimburse students at for-profit institutions of higher education who are entitled to a refund of tuition and fees due to the for-profit institution's breach of agreement or contract with the student or the state. Alters the process for approval of programs offered by for-profit institutions of higher education and requires notification of specified students if a program has not been recommended for implementation. Prohibits the payment of a commission, bonus, or other incentive payment based on success in securing enrollment. Allows the Maryland Higher Education Commission (Commission) to require reasonable annual reports and data from a for-profit institution of higher education as the Commission generally requires of other institutions of higher education. Recommends that the Commission, in order to assist the state in reaching the goal that 55% of adults in Maryland will have an associate's or bachelor's degree by 2025, should consider incorporating for–profit and out–of–state institutions awarding degrees in Maryland into the goal. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_277_sb0695T.pdf
Title: S.B. 695
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Establishes a Southern Maryland Higher Education Council to develop a strategy for improving access to higher education for the residents of southern Maryland. Provides that an interim report with a short-term strategy is due by December 1, 2011, and a final report with a long-term strategy is due by December 1, 2012. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb1347t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires nonpublic schools that participate in state-funded education programs to adopt by March 31, 2012, a policy prohibiting bullying, harassment, and intimidation. Requires the policy to include specified provisions. Encourages nonpublic schools to develop the policy in consultation with specified groups and to publicize the policy in a specified manner. Provides that specified employees who report acts of bullying, harassment, or intimidation are not civilly liable under specified circumstances. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0038e.pdf
Title: H.B. 38
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires nonpublic schools that participate in state-funded education programs to adopt, by March 31, 2012, a policy prohibiting bullying, harassment, and intimidation. Encourages nonpublic schools to develop educational bullying prevention programs for students, staff, volunteers, and parents and staff development programs to train teachers and administrators to implement the policies. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_486_sb0489E.pdf
Title: S.B. 489
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes a task force to study the creation of a Maryland Center for School Safety. Provides for the membership, chair, and staffing of the task force. Requires the task force to study and make recommendations regarding specified matters, including the following: (1) Establishing a clearinghouse for information and materials concerning school safety, including preparing and disseminating information regarding best practices; (2) Developing a school safety training program; (3) Collaborating with the state Department of Education to establish, maintain, and analyze a statewide data collection system regarding specified indicators of school safety; (4) Developing security criteria that local school systems may consider in the design of new school construction; (5) Developing model interagency agreements to address discipline and safety issues; and (6) Developing a model safety and security audit procedure. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0079e.pdf
Title: H.B. 79
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires that any school bus procured for use in the state on or after January 1, 2014, be constructed with materials that enable it to meet the fire safety criteria established by the National School Transportation Specifications and Procedures adopted at the most recent National Congress on School Transportation. The Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), with the advice and consent of the Maryland State Department of Education, must adopt regulations to promote the safety of school buses. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0369e.pdf
Title: S.B. 369
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows state vehicles and state-owned heavy equipment to use any other biofuel, in addition to 5% biodiesel (called B5), as long as it is approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a fuel or fuel additive or approved by the EPA Renewable Fuels Standard 2 Program, to meet the biodiesel requirements in current law. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_567_sb0961E.pdf
Title: S.B. 961
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Special Populations--Military |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Department of Education to develop a specified form relating to teacher certification and tenure and to post the form on its Web site. Requires the Adjutant General or the Adjutant General's designee to assist military spouses in finding specified employment. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0998e.pdf
Title: H.B. 998
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education, in consultation with county boards of education, to report to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2011, regarding minimum academic performance standards that students in public high schools in the state should meet in order to participate in high school athletic competitions sanctioned by the county board. Requires the report to include recommendations regarding the curriculum content, minimum grade point average, and grade progress that public high school students should satisfy to be eligible to participate in athletic competitions. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_335_hb0364E.pdf
Title: H.B. 364
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2011 |
Postsec. |
Alters from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled at public institutions of higher education to be exempt from paying specified tuition. Also alters from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled as candidates for specified degrees to not be required to pay the difference between the amount of specified scholarships or grants and the amount of specified tuition. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb1208t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1208
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
21st Century Skills |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Governor's P-20 Leadership Council of Maryland (the Council), a partnership among the state, educators, and the business community to better prepare Maryland students for jobs of the 21st century while enhancing the state's economic competitiveness by creating a workforce with 21st-century skills; provides for the membership, tenure, chair, and staffing of the Council; establishes an executive committee; provides for the duties of the executive committee and Council; and requires the Council to submit an annual report. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_191_sb0286E.pdf
Title: S.B. 286
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Task Force to Explore the Incorporation of the Principles of Universal Design (i.e., an approach to education curriculum design in which curriculum is intentionally and systemically designed from the beginning to address students' individual differences; specifically recommends the use of flexible instruction materials, techniques, and strategies) for Learning into the education systems in Maryland; provides for the membership, purposes, and staffing of the Task Force. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_305_sb0467E.pdf
Title: S.B. 467
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the scope of the duties and authority of the Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA) in the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC); Specifically clarifies that all student financial assistance programs awarded or administered by OSFA are subject to Title 18 of the Education Article, not only scholarships and grants; Repeals a requirement relating to the provision of bonds by scholarship recipients; Explicitly authorizes OSFA to adopt rules and regulations governing the performance of service obligations required of students who receive certain financial assistance, including repayment in lieu of service, waiver of service, and deferment of service. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_217_sb0080E.pdf
Title: S.B. 80
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec. |
Requires the comptroller to continue to distribute specified income tax revenue from corporations to the Higher Education Investment Fund (the Fund); Expands the authorized uses of the Fund; establishes a Tuition Stabilization Trust Account in the Fund; States a goal of the state that public senior higher education funding should reach 100% of the funding guidelines approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission; Requires governing boards of specified higher education institutions to periodically review tuition. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_193_hb0470T.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0283e.pdf
Title: H.B. 470/S.B. 283
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires that community college capital projects that receive state funds comply with the state's High Performance Building Act; Allows community colleges to apply for waivers from this requirement under existing waiver procedures; Takes effect July 1, 2010, and applies only to capital projects that have not initiated a request for proposals (RFP) for the selection of an architectural and engineering consultant on or before July 1, 2011. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1044t.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_527_sb0234T.pdf
Title: H.B. 1044/S.B. 234
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that a certain type of school vehicle is not required to be equipped with seat belts and is not subject to specified regulations if it is used by specified schools, camps, day nurseries, or day care centers to transport children. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_260_sb0245E.pdf
Title: S.B. 245
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires appropriate school personnel to provide copies of specified documents relating to the development of an individualized education program for a child with a disability to the parents of the child within 5 business days after a meeting between the child's parents and school personnel; provides that in the event of an extenuating circumstance, appropriate school personnel must document the extenuating circumstance and communicate that information to the parents of the child. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_665_sb0540E.pdf
Title: S.B. 540
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year, year-round schooling, or other school scheduling models that do not allow for prolonged lapses in instructional time, in low-performing or at-risk public schools. The state board is also required to encourage local boards to use the school scheduling models that are determined to be most effective in enhancing student achievement in low-performing or at-risk public schools. In addition, the bill requires the state to include the funding of these school scheduling models as part of the state's application to the United States Department of Education for the Race to the Top Fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0439t.pdf
Title: H.B. 439
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department of education to adopt regulations that require all public school buildings newly constructed or completely renovated and occupied after January 1, 2013, to include a gymnasium and support spaces for physical education instruction and to adopt guidelines for facilities for physical education programs. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0334t.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_266_sb0256T.pdf
Title: H.B. 334/S.B. 256
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Waives the fiscal 2010 county maintenance of effort (MOE) penalty for public education; Directs the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee to study the appropriate calculation of the penalty for failing to meet the MOE requirement and the appropriate party against whom the penalty should be applied; Requires the committees must report their findings and recommendations to the Legislative Policy Committee by December 31, 2010. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0223t.pdf
Title: H.B. 223
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards of education to continue submitting annual updates to their master plans in October 2010 and October 2011 and delays the requirement that local boards of education summit new 5-year comprehensive master plans from October 15, 2010, until October 15, 2012; Allows local boards to submit a preexisting management plan in lieu of a comprehensive master plan or update; Directs the state superintendent of schools to approve the management plan in lieu of a comprehensive master plan or update if the preexisting plan meets the requirements for the comprehensive master plan; Beginning in 2013, rather than 2011, each annual master plan update must cover a 5-year period. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_25_sb0074T.pdf
Title: S.B. 74
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows the student member of the state board of education to vote on the dismissal of or other disciplinary actions involving personnel, the state board's budget, and specified appeals to the state board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0536e.pdf
Title: S.B. 536
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department of education to review the Alternate School Assessment, survey certain teachers regarding satisfaction or lack thereof and solicit recommendations as part of the review. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0557t.pdf
Title: S.B. 557
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a local board of education to establish a virtual school, subject to the approval of the Maryland State Department of Education. A student who is eligible for enrollment in a public school in the state may enroll in a virtual school. Enrolled students must be provided with a sequential curriculum approved by the state board of education and regular assessments. A virtual school must provide the parents or guardians of enrolled students with instructional materials, including software, and information on the closest public facility that offers access to a computer, printer, and Internet connection. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1362e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a local board of education from adopting a classroom placement policy that automatically separates or places together multiple-birth children entering kindergarten through second grade. The parent or guardian of multiple-birth children entering kindergarten through second grade may request that they be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. A school must honor the requested placement unless the principal, in consultation with the children's teachers, determines that the requested placement is disruptive to the school. A school may recommend the appropriate classroom placement for multiple-birth children or provide professional educational advice to assist a parent or guardian regarding placement for multiple-birth children. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0272t.pdf
Title: H.B. 272
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
The bill requires that the Maryland Police Training Commission, in consultation with the Maryland State Department of Education, develop a cultural competency model training curriculum for law enforcement officers assigned to public schools. A law enforcement officer assigned to patrol a school building or school grounds is encouraged to complete the cultural competency model training curriculum before beginning the assignment. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0983t.pdf
Title: H.B. 983
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires a court to notify specified school administrators if the court places a child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school under the supervision or custody of a local department of social services or the Department of Juvenile Services and if a commitment order is rescinded; expands the list of crimes that, when committed by a student, law enforcement agencies must report to specified school officials;
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1160e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1160 - Section 1
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to develop a model policy to address gangs and gang-like activity in schools by March 31, 2011; Using the state board's model policy, each local board of education must establish and submit a local policy to the state superintendent of schools by September 1, 2011, and develop educational programs to address gang and gang-like activity. By January 1, 2011, and each year thereafter, the Maryland State Department. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1160e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1160 - Section 1, 7-424.2
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
This bill establishes an exception for the use of a handheld telephone utilizing push-to-talk technology by an individual operating a commercial motor vehicle to the prohibitions against using a handheld telephone while driving, as specified in SB 321. SB 321 prohibits a driver of a specified school vehicle from using a wireless telephone. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0934t.pdf
Title: H.B. 934
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
This bill prohibits the driver of a school vehicle that is carrying passengers and is in motion from using a handheld telephone. The prohibition also applies to the holder of a learner's instructional permit or provisional driver's license who is age 18 or older. Any other driver of a motor vehicle that is in motion may not use a handheld telephone; instead, the driver may only use his/her hands to initiate or terminate a wireless telephone call or to turn the handheld telephone on or off. These prohibitions do not apply to the emergency use of a handheld telephone. The prohibition also does not apply to the use of a handheld telephone as a text messaging device. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0321t.pdf
Title: S.B. 321
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires that appropriate school personnel provide the parents of a child with a disability with accessible copies of all documents relating to the development of an individualized education program (IEP) at least 5 business days before a scheduled meeting. However, documents prepared by a school psychologist or other medical professional that are to be discussed at the meeting may be provided to the parents orally and in writing prior to the meeting. Not later than 5 business days after a scheduled meeting, appropriate school personnel must provide the parents of the child with a copy of the completed IEP or, if it has not been completed, a draft copy of the IEP. The completed or draft IEP must be provided to the parents in an accessible format. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0269e.pdf
Title: H.B. 269
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to establish standards for the mastery of Braille for use in English, language arts, and mathematics instruction of students who are blind or visually impaired in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 by September 1, 2012. By September 1, 2013, the state board and the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board must review and, as appropriate, modify certification and recertification requirements for teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0413e.pdf
Title: H.B. 413
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Maryland Longitudinal Data System (MLDS) as a statewide data system that contains individual-level student data and workforce data from all levels of education and the state's workforce. The bill also establishes a Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center within state government to serve as a central repository for the data, to ensure compliance with federal privacy laws, to perform research on the data sets, and to fulfill education reporting requirements and approved public information requests. The governing board of the center must submit an annual report by December 15 to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010. The requirement that state agencies, local education agencies (LEAs), and educational institutions submit data to the center in accordance with specified plans, terminates June 30, 2011. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0275e.pdf
Title: S.B. 275
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Student Supports |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
This bill requires each local board of education to provide each student in grades 6-12 with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by: (1) printing the number prominently in the school handbook; and (2) printing the telephone number on a student's school identification card, if provided. A local board of education is not required to reprint or reissue school handbooks or student school identification cards in use on July 1, 2010, in order to comply with the bill. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0973t.pdf
Title: H.B. 973
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Expands eligibility for the privileges against compelled disclosure of (1) the source of news or information, regardless of whether the source has been promised confidentiality; or (2) news or information not communicated to the public that was procured by a person while employed by the news media during the course of the person's professional activities. Under the bill, the privileges would extend to postsecondary students engaged in any news gathering or news disseminating capacity recognized by their schools as a scholastic activity or in conjunction with an activity sponsored, funded, managed, or supervised by school staff or faculty ("school-related activity"). The privilege applies to any news or information procured by the student in the course of pursuing the scholastic or school-related activity. If any such person disseminates a source of news information while pursuing a professional, scholastic, or school-related activity, the protection from compelled disclosure is not waived by the person. The bill applies to and only affects subpoenas issued on or after the bill's October 1, 2010 effective date. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_140_hb0257T.pdf
Title: H.B. 257
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires any public school that administers the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) to choose the score reporting "Option 8," which prohibits the general release of any student information to military recruiters. Each public school must also send written notice to the ASVAB representative coordinating the school's administration of the test that the school is required to choose "Option 8" and must also notify students taking ASVAB and their parent or guardian of the requirement. A student or a student's parent or guardian may choose to release the student's personal information and ASVAB score to military recruiters by individually submitting the release forms to the military services.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_105_hb0176T.pdf
Title: H.B. 176
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to establish standards for effective mentoring that is focused; is systematic; is ongoing; is high quality; is geared to the needs of each employee being mentored; includes observations; and includes feedback. Requires each school system to submit to the state board a description of the local system's teacher mentoring program, including data relating to the number of mentors assigned, the number of teachers to whom the mentors have been assigned, and how, if at all, the effectiveness of the mentoring program is measured.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1263e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1263 - Induction and Mentoring Section
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
This section requires the state board of education to establish a program to support locally negotiated incentives for highly effective classroom teachers and principals to work in public schools that are 1) in improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; 2) that are Title I schools; or 3) that are in the highest 25% of schools based on free and reduced lunch. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1263e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1263 - Teacher/Principal Recruitment in High Need Schools
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Extends the probationary period of employment (nontenure) for certificated employees from 2 years to 3 years, requires that nontenured certificated employees be evaluated annually, and requires that student growth data be used in teacher and principal performance evaluations. If a nontenured certificated employee is not on track to qualify for tenure at any formal evaluation point, a mentor must promptly be assigned and additional professional development provided. For tenured teachers who move to another district, that employee is to be granted tenure if his/her contract is renewed after one year as long as the final evaluation from the preceding employer is satisfactory or better and there has been no break in service between the two systems of longer than one year. Local districts may extend the probationary period for such an employee for a second year if the employee does not meet performance evaluation criteria but demonstrates a strong potential for improvement. The new tenure policy only applies to an employee with a date of employment that begins on July 1, 2010, or later. Adds "student growth" to the teacher evaluation measures. Requires the state board to adopt regulations that establish general standards for performance evaluations for teachers and principals that include observations, clear standards, rigor, and claims and evidence of observed instruction. These regulations are required to include model performance evaluation criteria. The state board is required to solicit input from local districts. Requires county boards to establish performance evaluation criteria that includes data on student growth as a significant component of the evaluation and as one of multiple measures -- that are mutually agreed on by the local system and the exclusive employee representative. Evaluations may not be based solely on an existing or newly created examination or assessment, although such an assessment may be used as one of the multiple measures. No single criterion may account for more than 35% of the total performance evaluation criteria. If agreement on the model performance evaluation criteria is not reached between the local system and the exclusive employee representative, this takes effect in the local system 6 months following the final adoption of the state board regulations. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb1263e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1263 - Tenure and Evaluation Sections
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
This bill establishes a Public School Labor Relations Board (PSLRB) to administer and enforce the labor relations laws for local boards of education and their employees. The authority of the State Board of Education to decide public school labor relations disputes and the authority of the State Superintendent of Schools to declare labor impasses are repealed. The bill also repeals the authority of the local boards of education to make final determinations of matters that have been the subject of negotiation. By July 1, 2014, PSLRB must report on the the implementation of the bill. The bill takes effect July 1, 2010, and terminates June 30, 2015.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/sb/sb0590e.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0243t.pdf
Title: S.B. 590/H.B. 243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Ensures that students with disabilities have an opportunity to try out for and if selected participate in athletic programs, provide reasonable accommodations to allow athletic opportunities, and provide corollary athletic programs. http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/comarhtml/13a/13a.06.03.04.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.06.03.04
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to update current science graduation requirements to include environmental science as an option for a science credit. http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/getfile.aspx?file=13a.03.02.04.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.03.02.04
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar |
Postsecondary |
Adopted 05/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes minimum requirements for issuing certificates, diplomas, and degrees by in-state public and private institutions of postsecondary education.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13B_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13B.02.02.01 to .22
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a principal from suspending or expelling a student from school solely for attendance-related offenses.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0660t.pdf
Title: H.B. 660; S.B. 241
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Department of Education to develop a standardized course numbering system to facilitate the collection of data on student participation in courses offered in the public schools; authorizes each county school system to adopt the standardized course numbering system on a voluntary basis; requires a specified county school system to provide a translation of course numbers under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0588e.pdf
Title: H.B. 588
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires each local school system to develop and implement an annual physical fitness measurement program; establishes specified program elements for the fitness measurement programs; requires the State Department of Education to take specified steps to support the establishment of the fitness measurement programs; requires the Department to establish an Advisory Council on Health and Physical Education; provides for the membership of the Advisory Council.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb0879t.pdf
Title: S.B. 879
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school systems to develop and implement Wellness Policy Implementation and Monitoring Plans to establish baseline student data for the health-related components of physical fitness and to assist students with personal fitness plans; relates to funding.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb1264t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1264; S.B. 879
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Alters the term of a youth member of the Youth Advisory Council; increases the term of a youth member who is elected cochair of the Council; requires the State Department of Education to categorize a specified number of school absences per school year of a youth member as lawful absences if the absence was due to the business of the Council.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0485t.pdf
Title: H.B. 485; S.B. 463
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Expands eligibility in the Part-Time Grant Program to include specified students who are dually enrolled in specified secondary schools in the State and specified institutions of higher education; provides that a recipient of a specified part-time grant is not required to receive specified academic credit under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb1396t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1396
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes a Study Group on Expanding Enrollment Options for High School Students; establishes the membership and staffing of the Study Group; specifies the duties of the Study Group; requires the Study Group to make specified reports; terminates the Study Group at the end of June 30, 2010.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb0689e.pdf
Title: S.B. 689
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Changes the number of semester hours of courses in which a student must be enrolled in order to qualify as a part-time student for the Part-Time Grant Program from at least 6 to at least 3 semester hours, but no more than 11 semester hours. Limits the percentage of the part-time grant allocation that may be provided to students who are enrolled in at least 3 but less than 6 semester hours of courses each semester.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0948t.pdf
Title: H.B. 948
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Textbooks |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires public institutions of higher education in the state, excluding overseas programs of the University of Maryland University College, to develop and implement campaigns, processes, practices, and procedures relating to college textbooks and supplemental material regarding content revisions, availability, and cost; requires publishers of college textbooks to disclose specified information to faculty, textbook adopting entities, or institution administrations.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0085e.pdf
Title: H.B. 85; S.B. 183
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to develop and implement in the public schools a program to educate students about dating violence; requires the program to include education on services provided to victims of dating violence; alters the definition of victim of domestic violence for purposes of specified provisions of law; requires the Governor annually to proclaim the second week in October Statewide Tween/Teen Dating Violence Education and Awareness Week.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb1049e.pdf
Title: S.B. 1049
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education to develop a uniform data collection method to track the number of students who regularly participate in a classroom teacher's class by the beginning of the 2012-2013 academic year; requires the method to reflect the number of these students in a classroom teacher's class as of September 30 of each year; clarifies a classroom teacher.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0379t.pdf
Title: H.B. 379; S.B. 990
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Department of Education to assign a unique identification number to each teacher employed in the public schools in the state; requires that the identification number meet specified requirements; limits the use of the teacher identification number to specified educational purposes.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0587t.pdf
Title: H.B. 587
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
STEM |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the MDK12 Digital Library for the purpose of providing access to digital content for K-12 students and educators, improving school library programs with digital technologies, and connecting digital content with State science, technology, engineering, and math initiatives; provides that the library is a purchasing consortium for the acquisition of digital content; establishes a steering committee; provides for professional development for librarians and educators with regard to the library.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb0235t.pdf
Title: S.B. 235
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Students |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes, through an Interstate Compact with specified member states, the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children in elementary and secondary schools; provides for transfer of records.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0306t.pdf
Title: H.B. 306; S.B. 257
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules relating to the graduation requirements in public high schools in the state. In particular, procedures for denial of high school diploma and appealing such decisions.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.03.02.09-1.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.03.02.09-1
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends rules relating to teacher certification. Adds two new content areas, Environmental Education and Dance and brings the number of credit hours into alignment. Relates to curricular need.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.12.02.18.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.12.02.12, .18
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/ |
Finance--Lotteries |
Approved by voters 11/2008 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize video lottery terminal gaming in the State for the primary purpose of providing funds for public education; limits the number of licenses that the State may issue to operate video lottery terminals; limits the number of locations at which video lottery terminal facilities may be located; requires a facility to comply with applicable planning and zoning laws; raises revenue for k-12 education and facilities.
http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2008/questions/statewide.html
Title: Question 2
Source: http://www.elections.state.md.us/ |
Governance |
Chapter No. 559 05/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Youth Advisory Council; provides for the appointment, selection, membership, terms, and duties of the Council; establishes an executive board; provides for the selection of the executive board; provides for the appointment of the cochairs of the Council; provides for the development of a certain initial application and application process and related matters.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education to require local school systems to utilize passive parental consent before administering the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey designed to identify and document certain behaviors and conditions including use of helmets and seat belts, depression and mental health, use of tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, nutrition, physical activity and sexual behavior; requires local school systems to provide parents with specified statements and forms.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0473t.pdf
Title: S.B. 473
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program in the Department of Agriculture to promote the sale of farm products grown in the state to schools, to solicit farmers to sell their products to schools, to develop and regularly update a database of farmers interested in selling their products to schools, to facilitate the purchases from farmers by interested schools, and providing outreach and guidance to farmers concerning the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0158t.pdf
Title: S.B. 158
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Adopted 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for transfers to public kindergarten of age- eligible kindergarten students attending nonpublic kindergarten programs.
Unsafe School Transfer Policy.
A. Each local school system shall allow a student attending a public elementary or secondary school to attend a safe public elementary or secondary school within the school system if the student:
(1) Attends a persistently dangerous public elementary or secondary school; or
(2) Is a victim of a violent criminal offense
(a) During the regular school day; or
(b) While attending a school sponsored event in or on the grounds of a public elementary or secondary school that the student attends.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.08.01.01.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.08.01.01
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/ |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the State Department of Education each year by August 1 to compile a list by county of adult education and family literacy services offered to the public; requires the Department to distribute the list to specified local school officials and to post the list on its public website.
Title: S.B. 773
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires representatives of local boards of education to provide information concerning alternative education programs and GED program requirements and testing locations to each individual who no longer attends a public high school in the county and has not obtained a high school certificate or diploma.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0953t.pdf
Title: H.B. 953; S.B. 264
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires a county board of education to require elementary schools with certain truancy rates to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or certain behavior modification programs in collaboration with the State Department of Education under certain circumstances; requires certain schools to expand certain programs under certain circumstances; clarifies language.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0285t.pdf
Title: H.B. 285; S.B.96
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a county board of education from knowingly hiring or retaining any individual who has been convicted of specified crimes including violent crimes and child abuse.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0652t.pdf
Title: H.B. 652
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires a superintendent of schools of a county to allow a child to attend a public school in a school attendance area other than the school in the school attendance area where the child is domiciled with the child's parent or legal guardian if the child lives with a relative in the school attendance area in an informal kinship care relationship due to a serious family hardship.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0077e.pdf
Title: S.B. 77
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Declares the intent of the General Assembly that teachers of Baltimore City public high school students inform students about the federal, State, and Baltimore City election processes and the importance of exercising the right to vote and registering to vote.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1258t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1258
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates a Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State; requires the task force to study the current ability of high school students to understand basic financial concepts, evaluate the current provision of financial literacy education in public schools, assess the utility of such education as part of primary and secondary education, and to study the ability of adult consumers to understand financial concepts and the problems created by a lack of financial literacy.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1242e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1242; S.B. 533
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Parren J. Mitchell Public Service Scholarship in the Workforce Shortage Student Assistance grants program; requires the State Higher Education Commission to select and offer grants to certain students who plan to pursue a career in public service in certain areas; requires the Commission to select certain students who are representative of certain criteria and individuals who demonstrate to the Commission a certain intent to enter into public service at a certain time.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1287e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1287
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force on Student Physical Fitness in State Public Schools; provides that the task force shall study the advisability of requiring all public schools to provide a minimum amount of physical activity or education to students, the effects on childhood obesity and related health issues of such requirements, the costs of such requirements and how they may be minimized, and results obtained by local school systems in the state or other state that have such requirements.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0955e.pdf
Title: S.B. 955
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes the Maryland Higher Education Commission to require an application fee from institutions of postsecondary education seeking certification to operate in the State.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0187t.pdf
Title: S.B. 187
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires institutions of higher education to develop certain policies regarding credit card marketing activities and merchandising conducted on the campus of an institution of higher education by credit card issuers; provides for certain exemptions from certain requirements; requires certain policies to include certain requirements and consideration of certain issues; defines certain terms.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1210t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1210
Source: |
Postsecondary Students--Minority |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires private institutions of higher education eligible for state aid to submit a report on programs to promote and enhance cultural diversity on campus; requires public institutions of higher education to develop and implement a plan for a program of cultural diversity; requires the plan to include a process for reporting campus-based hate crimes and a summary of any resources, including state grants, needed by the institution to effectively recruit and retain a culturally diverse student body.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0905e.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0438t.pdf
Title: H.B. 905; S.B. 438
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to develop a certain model policy prohibiting bullying, harassment and intimidation in schools; requires that the model policy include certain information; requires certain county boards of education to establish certain policies prohibiting bullying, harassment, and intimidation in schools based on the model policy.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0199e.pdf
Title: H.B. 199
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides a task force to study issues related to students with multiple suspensions; requires principals to report suspensions in writing to county superintendents within specified periods of time; requires principals to refer specified students to pupil services teams and give notice to specified students and specified parents or guardians that pupil services teams must meet within a specified period of time; requires notice to be provided in specified languages or specified modes of communication.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0139e.pdf
Title: H.B. 139; S.B. 582
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a school crossing guard who meets specified qualifications to stop or otherwise direct vehicles and pedestrians on a highway or on school grounds under specified circumstances; requires drivers to obey the directions of a school crossing guard exercising authority under the Act.
Title: H.B. 230
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires county boards of education to ensure that students with disabilities have certain opportunities in specified physical education and certain athletic programs; provides for certain exceptions to these requirements; requires county school systems to provide specified accommodations; requires county school systems to develop specified programs, policies, and procedures; requires county school systems to provide opportunities meeting specified criteria to students.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb1411t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1411; S.B. 849
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides the Maryland Career Development Framework standards to guide the implementation of a systematic instructional program in career development and decision making for all students.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.04.10.01.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.04.10.01, .02
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/ |
Students |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force on Educational Issues Affecting Military Children; provides that the task force shall examine educational issues affecting military children, including efforts to ease the transition of military children to state schools, the timely receipt of paperwork necessary for local school systems to facilitate transfers of such children, the effect of graduation requirements, and the feasibility of the state joining the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunities for Military Children.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0784t.pdf
Title: H.B. 784; S.B. 457
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires public schools to provide notice to specified students or the parents or guardians of the students about the right not to release student contact information to military recruiters; requires public schools to include the notice in a specified format, size, and type on the card requesting emergency contact information for the student.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/sb/sb0187t.pdf
Title: S.B. 428
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Adopted 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Ensures that local school systems and public agencies purchase textbooks and instructional materials from publishers that agree to provide textbooks and materials in alternative formats in order to give students with visual impairments, including blindness and other print disabilities, access to instructional materials.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.06.05.01.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.06.05.01
Source: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/ |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Enacted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to funding for public and private elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and community colleges; relates to property assessments, agreements between county governments and electric generation facilities for payments in lieu of taxes, the Agriculture and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation, the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund, grants to county boards of education under an aging schools program, and State Lottery agents' and other public employees' wages.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007s1/bills/sb/sb0001t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1A
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Enacted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Adds a new article to the State Constitution to authorize video lottery terminal gaming in the State for the primary purpose of providing funds for public education; limits the number of video lottery terminals; limits the number of licenses that the State may issue to operate video lottery terminals; limits the number of locations for the operation of video lottery terminals; requires a video lottery facility to comply with applicable planning and zoning laws of the local jurisdiction.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007s1/bills/hb/hb0004t.pdf
Title: H.B. 4A
Source: Maryland Legislature |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the required preservice and continued training requirements for registered family child care providers to help improve the quality and professionalism of home-based child care services. MARYLAND 11169
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.14.04.02, .14
Source: MD Rules/Regs |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the required preservice and continued training requirements for child care center staff and change the nomenclature of child care center staff to make it consistent with the terminology used by most other states. MARYLAND 11170
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.14.02.02, .18, .21-.23, .25-.27
Source: MD Rules/Regulations |
P-3 |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides an incentive for licensed child care program administrators to increase their program management knowledge and skills by establishing an Administrator's Credential. Assists eligible child care professionals with the cost of early care and education college courses by establishing a Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund. MARYLAND 11052
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.14.09.02.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.14.09.02-.07, .08, .09
Source: Maryland State Board |
Postsecondary |
Adopted 08/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish minimum requirements for issuing certificates, diplomas, and degrees by public and nonpublic institutions of postsecondary education.
A. The requirements in this chapter apply to all degree-granting institutions, including colleges and universities, and separately incorporated graduate institutions or centers that require or seek a certificate of approval to operate, or continue to operate, and grant formal awards within the State.
B. The requirements in this chapter also apply to existing institutions that are seeking approval to offer a new degree level in Maryland.
C. The approval granted to an institution to operate and award degrees applies only to the formal awards, instructional programs, and locations designated in the certificate of approval and is not applicable to off-campus programs that are separately authorized by the Commission.
D. Programs to be reviewed under this authority include:
(1) New certificates or degree levels;
(2) Off-campus program offerings; and
(3) Program suspensions or discontinuances.
E. Out-of-State degree-granting institutions shall apply for approval to operate in Maryland
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13b/13b.02.02.02.htm
Title: COMAR 13B.02.02.02-.08, .10-.19, .21, .22
Source: |
Special Education |
Issued 08/2007 |
P-12 |
(Executive Order No. 2007-13) Establishes the Governor's Interagency Transition Council for Youth with Disabilities. The Council will annually review, revise, and update the state plan to ensure effective interagency planning and delivery of services for secondary students
with disabilities. The plan will serve as the unifying link between child-serving systems and adult systems, and appropriate elements will be
incorporated into both the Department of Disabilities State Plan and the Governor's Office for Children's three-year plan.
http://www.gov.state.md.us/executiveorders/01.07.13YouthDisabilities.pdf
Title: E.O. 14; 2007-13
Source: Maryland Governor's Office |
Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Superintendent of Schools, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to establish and promote in schools in the State a public awareness campaign related to self-injury by cutting; provides for the components of the campaign; authorizes the State Superintendent to use specified resources to carry out the provisions of the Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb1046t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1046
Source: Maryland |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish and administer a grant program for dually enrolled students; requires a recipient of a dual enrollment grant to be a resident of the State and a dually enrolled student; requires the Commission to administer funds for the Dual Enrollment Grant Program and to distribute funds to an institution of higher education on behalf of a dual enrollment grant recipient.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb0538e.pdf
Title: H.B. 538
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Clarifies the definition of a foster care recipient; provides that specified foster youth placed by the Department of Human Resources in out-of-home placements other than foster care homes may be eligible for waiver of tuition and fees at specified institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1309
Source: Maryland Legislature |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires that the information contained in a specified form relating to harassment or intimidation in schools be kept confidential with specified exceptions; provides that specified information is not a part of a student's permanent educational record.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb0383t.pdf
Title: H.B. 383
Source: Maryland Legislature |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt guidelines governing student discipline; requires local school systems to adopt rules and regulations and implement programs and activities governing student discipline that are consistent with the guidelines established by the State Board; makes stylistic changes.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/sb/sb0132t.pdf
Title: S.B. 132
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the minimum number of specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or Teachers' Pension System that school districts may rehire; alters the criteria for hiring specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are exempt from an earnings offset of a retirement allowance.
Title: H.B. 962
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Allows specified individuals to claim a credit against the State income tax up to a specified amount for textbooks purchased for use at institutions of higher education; provides that the credit may not exceed the State income tax for that taxable year and that any unused credit for a taxable year may not be carried over to any other taxable year; defines specified terms; applies the Act to tax years beginning after December 31, 2006.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb0204e.pdf
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires county boards of education to submit comprehensive master plans to the State Department of Education on or before October 1, 2008, and every 5 years thereafter; clarifies that comprehensive master plans extend for a 5-year period.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/sb/sb0907e.pdf
Title: S.B. 907
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Commission on Civic Literacy; requires the Commission to elect specified officers from among its members; requires the State Department of Education to provide staff and specified other support to the Commission; prohibits a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing a member of the Commission to receive specified reimbursements.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/sb/sb0492e.pdf
Title: S.B. 492
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force on the HPV Vaccine; provides for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; provides that the members of the Task Force may not receive compensation but are entitled to a specified reimbursement; provides for the duties of the Task Force; requires the Task Force to report specified findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2008; provides for the termination of the Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb1049e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1049; S.B. 774
Source: Maryland Legislaure |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that specified provisions pertaining to the disclosure of a report or record of suspected child abuse to public schools be made applicable to private schools; designates which individuals, in cases involving students in nonpublic schools, are authorized to receive specified reports or records; provides for the effective date of specified provisions of the Act; provides for the termination of specified provisions of the Act.
Title: H.B. 1332; S.B 876
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Alters the criteria used to determine whether a school qualifies to participate in the Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb1199e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1199
Source: Maryland Legislature |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish and administer a grant program for dually enrolled students; requires a recipient of a dual enrollment grant to be a resident of the State and a dually enrolled student; requires the Commission to administer funds for the Dual Enrollment Grant Program and to distribute funds to an institution of higher education on behalf of a dual enrollment grant recipient.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/sb/sb0525e.pdf
Title: S.B. 525
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Includes the renewal of certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as part of the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; increases the maximum number of teachers who may be selected to participate in the Program from 750 to be 1,000; authorizes the State Board of Education to provide aid under the Program for up to one retake of an unsuccessful entry.
Title: S.B. 57; H.B. 275
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Vetoed 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Includes the renewal of certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as part of the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; increases the maximum number of teachers who may be selected to participate in the Program from 750 to be 1,000.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb0275t.pdf
Title: H.B. 275; S.B. 57
Source: Maryland Legislature |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Ensures state alignment with national policies of the American Council on Education and consistency within the operations of the Maryland State Department of Education. Extends eligibility to students who obtained a Maryland High School Certificate of Program Completion. The rule refers to the General Educational Development (GED) Tests as an alternate and acceptable way for an individual 16 years old or older to earn a high school diploma.
Title: COMAR 13A.03.03.01
Source: Maryland Rules |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to the Board of Education. Allows students to use American Sign Language as an alternative to foreign language in fulfilling graduation requirements. MARYLAND 10858
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.03.02.04.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.03.02.04
Source: Maryland Rules |
Student Achievement |
Issued 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Maryland Youth Council to encourage young people throughout the State of Maryland to consider and discuss how government, working with its public and private-sector partners to develop possible solutions for presentation to the Children's Cabinet and, thereby, achieve better outcomes for outh. Sets membership. http://www.gov.state.md.us/executiveorders/2006/0610eo.html
Title: Executive Order 01.01.2006.10
Source: http://www.gov.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Proposes to adopt rules to the Board of Education. Aligns the initialcertification requirements of non- bachelor-degreed trades and industry teachers with degreed candidates. Establishes middle school certification grades for certification purposes from grades 4 through 9. MARYLAND 10246
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm#Subtitle12
Title: COMAR 13A.12.01.05, .12.02.05, .05
Source: Maryland Rules |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends to students graduating before 2009 the option of substituting participation in a Department-approved test for participation in a Maryland High School Assessment. MARYLAND 10594
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm#Subtitle03
Title: COMAR 13A.03.02.08
Source: Maryland Regulations |
Students--Records/Rights |
Adopted 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding the 2006 Maryland Student Record Systems Manual. Provides that 2006-2007 school year, serious bodily injury and in-school suspensions be reported for all students. Revises the definition of "days absent". MARYLAND 10567
Title: COMAR 13A.02.06.02, .08.01.01, .08.02.01, .07
Source: Maryland Rules |
Assessment |
Rule Adoption 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding exemption of students from taking the Maryland High School Assessment for algebra/data analysis if they completed and passed algebra in a nonpublic middle school or an out-of- state middle school and have mastered the core learning goals.
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/13a/13a.03.02.04.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.03.02.04, .12
Source: Maryland Rules |
Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force to Study Raising the Compulsory Public School Attendance Age to 18; requires the Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding certain issues by a certain date and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly. Chapter No. 449
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0036e.pdf
Title: H.B. 36; SB 741
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Attendance |
Vetoed 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases the age range for compulsory public school attendance in Baltimore City to between the ages of 5 years old and 18 years old; requires persons with legal custody or care and control of children who reside in Baltimore City and who are between the ages of 5 years old and 18 years old to see that the children attend school as required.
Title: S.B. 741
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools from imposing a certain restructuring of a governance arrangement of specified schools in Baltimore City or from removing a public school from the direct control of the City Board of School Commissioners; makes repeals, enacts and amendments.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1215e.pdf
Title: H.B. 1215; S.B. 914
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the State Department of Education to provide competitive adult education grants beginning in fiscal year 2007 for specified eligible adult education providers; requires that funding for State adult education grants shall be provided in the State budget; provides for the manner of calculation of the amount of a State adult education grant available for each county for distribution to specified adult education providers.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1130t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1130
Source: Maryland Legislature |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the establishment of residential boarding education programs for at risk youth to be operated under the supervision of the State Department of Education; requires the Board of Trustees to submit to the Department on or before July 1 each year specified information regarding the program including the students who participate and budget information. Requires the Governor to appropriate at least $2,000,000 to the Department to cover the transportation, boarding, and administrative costs of a program serving up to 80 students; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1432t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1432
Source: Maryland Legislature |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes an advisory council to the children's cabinet to make recommendations to the children's cabinet on methods for meeting the policy and program goals of the state for integrated children and family programs, coordinate state programs with local programs, reduce reliance on institutions as the primary mode of intervention for at-risk youth offenders, promote positive outcomes for youths, fund juvenile crime and delinquency prevention practices, and reduce disproportionate minority confinement.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0882e.pdf
Title: S.B. 882
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits nonpublic schools from knowingly employing an individual with specified criminal convictions, including child sexual abuse, if that individual works with or has access to students; requires the State Department of Education to revoke the certificate of approval or letter of tentative approval of the nonpublic school that violates the Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0111t.pdf
Title: S.B. 111
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Task Force to Convene a Summit on Civic Literacy in Maryland; provides for the composition, powers, and duties of the Task Force; requires the State Department of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to provide staffing for the Task Force; prohibiting members of the Task Force from receiving compensation but entitling members to reimbursement for certain expenses.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0047e.pdf
Title: S.B. 47
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Alters the standard by which a county board of education and the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City shall require specified elementary schools to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support program or a specified alternative program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1495t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1495
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Consolidates specified workforce shortage and economic development student scholarship and grant programs in the Maryland Higher Education Commission into the new Workforce Shortage Student Assistance Grant program; requires the Commission and the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Commission to administer the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0988e.pdf
Title: H.B. 988; S.B. 552
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Governance--School Boards |
Became law without governor's signature 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes certain political parties to nominate candidates to the ballot if the parties do not nominate candidates by primary election; clarifies how political parties may fill vacancies; repeals certain provisions regarding the filling of a vacancy in nomination for certain petition candidates; provides that unless a board of education race is partisan a candidate may not qualify by petition or party nomination.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0129t.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0373t.pdf
Title: S.B. 129; SB 373
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires a public body that adjourns an open session to carry out an executive function in a meeting that is not open to the public to include specified information in the minutes of its next open session.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0698t.pdf
Title: H.B. 698; S.B. 623
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires each county board of education to designate a school health services program coordinator; permitting a county board to authorize the county health department to designate the coordinator; requires the coordinator to carry out specified duties; requires the county board to grant the coordinator specified authority.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0613t.pdf
Title: H.B. 613
Source: Maryland Legislature |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires county boards of education to collect, maintain, and analyze certain graduation rates using certain formulas by certain dates; requires county boards to report certain information to the public and to the State Department of Education in a certain format; requires the Department to compile certain information, calculate certain graduation rates, and post certain graduation rates on its website.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0071t.pdf
Title: H.B. 71; S.B. 59
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Educational Technology Pilot Program in Baltimore City and Dorchester, Prince George's, Somerset, and St. Mary's counties; requires the State Superintendent of Schools and specified organizations to develop a plan to implement the program in elementary schools; requires the plan to meet specified requirements; provides for the funding of the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1439t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1439; S.B. 848
Source: Maryland Legislature |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Repeals a limitation that grants provided under the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program are subject to the availability of funds in the State budget; provides that the program shall include the early intervention services provided or supervised by the Department and the State Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene including the Program for Hearing- Impaired Infants.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0133t.pdf
Title: H.B. 133; S.B. 367
Source: Maryland Legislature |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the Child Care Quality Incentive Grant Program to be administered by the State Department of Education; authorizes the Department to contract with specified agencies to administer the grant program; authorizes the State Superintendent to delegate authority to approve direct incentive grants to specified boards; authorizes the Department to award direct incentive grants to an applicant under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0601t.pdf
Title: H.B. 601
Source: Maryland Legislature |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force on Universal Preschool Education; providing for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; specifies the purposes and goals of the Task Force; requires the Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding specified issues by a specified date and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly; provides for the termination of the Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1466t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1466
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to submit a review of the State Plan for Higher Education to the Governor and to the General Assembly every 4 years instead of every 2 years; requires that the president of each public institution of higher education update the institution's mission statement within a year of the review of the State Plan for Higher Education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0122t.pdf
Title: H.B. 122
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Requires an institution of higher education that does not possess regional accreditation to require its students to sign a letter of acknowledgment that the transfer of credits may be difficult if the student intends to transfer the credits to an institution of higher education that is regionally accredited.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0270t.pdf
Title: S.B. 270
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship; alters eligibility requirements for the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program; establishes a specified death benefit for State residents serving in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0003e.pdf
Title: H.B. 3; S.B. 305
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Finance |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Amends the Maryland Charter for Higher Education to require specified funding policies to allocate State resources comparably and equitably to similarly classified institutions of higher education; requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to ensure that parity exists between duplicate academic programs at specified institutions of higher education and that those academic programs receive equitable and comparable funding.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0998e.pdf
Title: S.B. 998; H.B. 1634
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the university system; prohibits a member of the Board of Regents from being a candidate for public office while serving on the Board; restricts campaign contributions.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1674t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1674
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Alters the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for community colleges to allow colleges that are no longer eligible for funding under the size factor component to receive a specified percentage of funding for a specified number of fiscal years.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0533t.pdf
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0357t.pdf
Title: H.B. 533; SB 357
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Increases the total amount of grants that may be distributed to specified community colleges in order to provide instruction and services to specified students enrolled in English for Speakers of Other Languages programs from $ 2,500,000 per fiscal year to $ 6,000,000 per fiscal year.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0575t.pdf
Title: S.B. 575
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish and administer a grant program for supplemental services and supports for students with disabilities in community colleges; provides for the purpose of the grant program; requires the Commission, in cooperation with the Department of Disabilities, to establish a competitive review process and adopt guidelines or regulations for the administration of the grant program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb1681t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1681
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Alters the title of the head of the Community College of Baltimore County; provides that the President of the Community College of Baltimore County is responsible for the administration and supervision of the administrators of the campuses of the community college; authorizes the President to appoint a vice president, provost, and administrator for the campuses.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0693t.pdf
Title: H.B. 693; S.B. 501
Source: Maryland Legislature |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Task Force on School Safety; provides for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; authorizes the Task Force to establish subcommittees; provides that the members of the Task Force may not receive compensation but are entitled to a specified reimbursement.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0146t.pdf
Title: S.B. 146
Source: Maryland Legislature |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Vetoed 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends through fiscal year 2010 the authorization for Baltimore City to use local highway user revenues for students costs of discounted stated Transit Administration fares for eligible public school students in Baltimore City.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0177t.pdf
Title: H.B. 177
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to blind and visually impaired students. Requires the State Department of Education to establish a specified instructional resources center to develop procedures to coordinate the statewide availability of textbooks and supplementary instructional materials that may be accessed using a nonvisual means; requires the Department to adopt the federal National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0710e.pdf
Title: H.B. 710; S.B. 392
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Maryland Alternative Teaching Opportunity Program in the State Department of Education; authorizes the Department to select specified school districts and up to 150 teaching candidates to participate in the Program; requires the Department to share in the cost of providing a specified stipend to teaching candidates participating in a preresidency internship program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0794t.pdf
Title: H.B. 794
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the National Board Certified Teacher Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; authorizes the State Superintendent of Schools to select a specified number of public school systems and public schools to participate in the Program; requires the State to reimburse a county board of education for specified costs.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0458t.pdf
Title: S.B. 458; H.B. 652
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes a comprehensive induction program in the State Department of Education for new teachers employed by hard-to-staff schools; requires that the comprehensive induction program include mentoring, professional development training and support, and formal assessments of teachers participating in the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/sb/sb0238t.pdf
Title: S.B. 238
Source: Maryland Legislature |
Assessment |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes to adopt rules to the Board of Education. Replaces the Geometry Maryland School Assessment with the Algebra High School Assessment as the measure of high school mathematics achievement for accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act. Discontinues administration of the Geometry assessment. MARYLAND 10426
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.04, .05, 13A.03.02.04, .07 thru .09
Source: Maryland Regulations |
P-3 Governance |
Issued 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends amend Executive Order 01.01.2005.34, which established the Advisory Council for Children; the Governor's Office for Children as a separate agency within the Executive Department to provide a coordinated, comprehensive, interagency approach to the development of a continuum of care that is family and child- oriented and that emphasizes prevention, early intervention, and community-based services for all children and families with special attention to at-risk populations; and the Children's Cabinet and the Children's Cabinet Interagency Fund. Expands the membership of the Advisory Council. http://www.gov.state.md.us/executiveorders/2006/0603eo.html
Title: 01.01.2006-03 (Executive Order)
Source: http://www.gov.state.md.us |
P-3 |
Issued 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Coordinating Council, defines membership and duties. Purposes of council includes increasing access by low-income families receiving child care subsidies to quality early care and education programs, thereby increasing the probability that their children are entering school ready to learn.
http://www.governor.maryland.gov/executiveorders/2006/0602eo.html
Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER 01.01.2006.02
Source: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/ |
Attendance |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a county superintendent to allow a child who is a Maryland resident to attend a public school free of charge in a county other than the county where a child is domiciled with the child's parent or legal guardian, provided certain criteria are met.
Title: COMAR 13A.08.05.01 thru .07
Source: Lexis/Nexis, StateNet |
School Safety |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes to amend rules requiring each county board of education and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to require an elementary school that has a suspension rate that exceeds 18% of the elementary school'senrollment to implement a positive behavioral interventions and support programor an alternative behavioral modification program in collaboration with the Maryland State Department of Education. MARYLAND 10415
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.08.06.02
Source: COMAR Web Page |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Proposes to adopt rules to the Board of Education. Revises the certification regulation for supervisors of instruction, assistant principals, and principals. MARYLAND REG 10247 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.12.04.04, .05
Source: StateNet |
Private Schools |
Rule Adoption 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Proposes to amend rules to the Board of Education. Brings educational programming standards in these institutions into alignment with revisions in educational programming standards for public schools made in response to the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 and revisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. MARYLAND REG 10236 (SN)
Title: COMAR 12A.09.10.01 thru .20
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Rule Adoption 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Proposes to adopt rules to the Board of Education. Provides for transfers to public kindergarten. Requires local boards of education to establish regulations for early admission in prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade. MARYLAND REG 10189 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.08.01.01, .02, .02-2
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring the State Department of Education to employ a full-time director of physical education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0233.htm
Title: S.B. 233
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Task Force to Implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and requires the University System of Maryland to provide staff for the Task Force.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0440.htm
Title: S.B. 440
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum--Speech Education |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 |
Postsec. |
Authorizing an area of critical shortage to include speech language pathology or audiology services under the Sharon Christa McAuliffe Memorial Teacher Education Award program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; defining terms; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1235.htm
Title: H.B. 1235
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires each public school system to adopt a policy authorizing a student to possess and self- administer specified medication pertaining to the student's asthma or other airway-constricting disease while in school, at school-sponsored activities, or on school property; requires prior written approval from a student's health practitioner and parent or legal guardian before a student can self-administer medication.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb0143.htm
Title: H.B. 143
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Rule Adoption 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Revises the Maryland Student Records System Manual (MSRSM) as a result of recent changes regarding health and graduation requirements. State assessments, prekindergarten requirements, kindergarten and prekindergarten phase-in dates, enrollment and transfers, and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Updates references to the MSRSM. MARYLAND REG 10154 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.02.06.02, 13A.0801.01, .08.02.01
Source: StateNet |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring each county board of education to include the importance of physical activity as part of instruction in health education; requiring all vending machines in public schools to have and use a timing device in accordance with specified policies.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/bills/sb/sb0473e.pdf
Title: S.B. 473
Source: StateNet |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (47-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Authorizing the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to include specified mental health programs; requiring the Youth Suicide Prevention School Program to develop and implement specified mental health programs; authorizing the State Department of Education to assist in implementing specified programs; and requiring the State Department of Education to seek specified federal funds for Youth Suicide Prevention School Programs
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb0930.htm
Title: H.B. 930
Source: StateNet |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
(H) THIRD READING PASSED (131-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; requiring a sending school to orally inform a receiving school of the grade level of the child; requiring a sending school to convey specified information to a receiving school; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0426.htm
Title: S.B. 426
Source: StateNet |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; requiring a sending school to orally inform a receiving school of the grade level of the child; requiring a sending school to convey specified information to a receiving school.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1259.htm
Title: H.B. 1259
Source: StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishing the statewide Principal Fellowship and Leadership Development Program in the State Department of Education; requiring the Department to develop criteria for the selection of fellows and receiving schools; authorizing the State Superintendent of Schools, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, to require specified school systems to participate in the Program; prohibiting a principal in a local school system from participating in the Program in an eligible school within the same system; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb0995.htm
Title: H.B. 995
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishing an Early Childhood Development Division within the State Department of Education; transferring the Child Care Administration from the Department of Human Resources to the State Department of Education; transferring specified programs of the Office for Children, Youth, and Families to the State Department of Education; providing that nothing in the Act shall be construed to facilitate or effectuate the transfer of specified programs from the Department of Human Resources to the State Department of Education,
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/Hb0932.htm
Title: H.B. 932
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a plan to accredit certain early learning programs and child care programs that are planning to provide or are providing specified kindergarten or prekindergarten programs to specified children; requiring the State Department of Education to submit the plan to the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families on or before December 31, 2005; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1491.htm
Title: H.B. 1491
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes regional higher education centers and community colleges to submit to the Higher Education Commission requests for proposals for the offering of specified baccalaureate degree programs.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/bills/hb/hb0228t.pdf
Title: H.B. 228
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher Education Commission to grant a deferment from the service obligation component of a scholarship to an individual assigned military duty outside of the State or that individual's spouse.
Title: S.B. 32
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 |
Postsec. |
Altering the qualification requirements for applicants for a Sharon Christa McAuliffe Memorial Teacher Education Award; and prohibiting the State Board of Education from considering the grade point average of an applicant who earned an undergraduate degree on or before December 31, 1985, as part of specified criteria
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1373.htm
Title: H.B. 1373
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Maryland Higher Education Commission to approve the operation of regional higher education centers in the State under specified circumstances and to assure that certain courses and programs satisfy criteria.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/bills/hb/hb0597t.pdf
Title: H.B. 597
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Establishing the Community College Students with Disabilities Task Force; providing for the membership and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report its findings by December 1, 2005; and providing for the termination of the Act
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1236.htm
Title: H.B. 1236
Source: StateNet |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (31-15) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring a student considered for suspension or expulsion from school or the student's parent or guardian to be given a community resources list; requiring a child with a disability or the child's parent or guardian to be given a community resources list attached to a procedural safeguards notice if the child is being considered for suspension or expulsion from school; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1074.htm
Title: H.B. 1074
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Repeals a provision of law requiring the transfer of public school facilities and property from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; repeals a requirement that prohibits the State from funding capital improvements to public school buildings in Baltimore City after 2009 under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0766.htm
Title: S.B. 766
Source: StateNet |
Service-Learning |
Vetoed 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for the operating requirements of a private residential rehabilitative institution; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0503.htm
Title: S.B. 503
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
(S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for the operating requirements of a private residential rehabilitative institution; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/hb1148.htm
Title: H.B. 1148
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
(H) THIRD READING PASSED (137-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishing a Pilot Program to Study and Improve Screening Practices for Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Department of Education; requiring the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to select and establish relationships with specified providers to participate in the Pilot Program, assess and identify autism spectrum disorders screening instruments, and develop training materials and distribute written information on early detection of autism spectrum disorders; etc
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0834.htm
Title: S.B. 834
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
(H) THIRD READING PASSED (135-0) 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Increasing the maximum number of teachers selected each year to participate in the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards from 500 to 750; and generally relating to participation in the Program
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0266.htm
Title: S.B. 266
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Vetoed 04/2005 |
P-12 |
Providing for a stipend of up to a maximum of $2,000 for certificated school-based employees who work directly with students or teachers and who hold a certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; updating specified terms.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2005rs/billfile/sb0268.htm
Title: S.B. 268
Source: StateNet |
High School--Exit Exams |
Rule Adoption 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules to the Maryland State Board of Education. Deals with graduation requirements in public high schools in Maryland. Merges the English Grade 9 High School Assessment with the Grade 10 Reading Assessment to create a single test - an English High School Assessment to be administered after completion of the second high-school English credit (for most students, this is tenth-grade English).
MARYLAND REG 10179 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.04, .05, .03.02.02, .04, .01 thru .09
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Education Department; requires each facility established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Services to have an education center; provides that each child in the custody of the Department receive appropriate educational services; establishes the Department of Juvenile Services Board of Education; provides for the appointment, terms, and removal of members of the Board of Education.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1139e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1139
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the establishment of a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in certain counties; establishes that failure of children to attend school without a lawful excuse is a code violation; authorizes school officials to petition the juvenile court alleging that a child who is required under law to attend school fails to attend school without lawful excuse; requires the court to hold an adjudicatory hearing after the petition; requires a separate disposition hearing.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1443t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1443
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires a child discharged from a committed residential placement to receive step down aftercare for a period to be determined by the Department of Juvenile Services; requires a child in a step down aftercare program to receive specified services; requires a child placed in step down aftercare to receive an appropriate education from the State Department of Education; requires the Department of Juvenile Services to keep specified records.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0767t.rtf
Title: S.B. 767
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Public Works to include modular construction as an approved public school construction or capital cost; requires the Board of Public Works to adopt specified regulations.
Title: H.B. 199
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative financing methods; authorizes specified counties to issue bonds under specified circumstances; alters the amount of grants provided to counties under the Aging Schools Program; provides an exception to a specified mandatory level of State funds to be granted to Prince George's County and Baltimore City.
Title: S.B. 787
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative financing methods; authorizes specified counties to issue bonds under specified circumstances; alters the amount of grants provided to counties under the Aging Schools Program; provides an exception to a specified mandatory level of State funds to be granted to Prince George's County and Baltimore City.
Title: H.B. 1230
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Department of Education to establish procedures for the administration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey; authorizes the department to omit certain survey questions; requires the department to require a local school system to obtain parental consent; establishes requirements for a parental consent form.
Title: H.B. 358
Source: StateNet |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Rule Adoption 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Proposes rules regarding standards for kindergarten programs and graduation requirements for public high schools. MARYLAND REG 9845 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.03.01, .01, .04, 13A.03.02, .01-.12
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Repeals a specified termination provision relating to procedures governing the approval of new programs at institutions of higher education; requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to identify low-productivity programs; governs certain programs at the constituent institutions of the University of Maryland.
Title: S.B. 812
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the State Digital Library in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; authorizes the State Higher Education Commission to encourage specified institutions to meet specified goals; authorizes the Digital Library, in collaboration with certain entities, to develop specified programs.
Title: H.B. 1167
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes that specified military personnel, spouses and dependents of military personnel, and veterans are exempt from paying nonresident tuition at public institutions of higher education under specified circumstances; requires the State Higher Education Commission to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of the Act.
Title: H.B. 172
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Limits the annual increase in tuition that may be charged to a resident undergraduate student at specified public senior higher education institutions to 5% for academic years beginning in the fall of 2004 through the fall of 2007; requires the Governor to include in the annual budget submission for fiscal years 2006 through 2008 a specified increase in the amount of State support for the University System of Maryland and Morgan State University.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1188e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1188
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Provides that the authority of the Board of Regents of the University System may not be superseded by any other State agency or office in management affairs except by a provision of law that specifically references the University System; allows the University System to create personnel positions under specified conditions without requiring a specific provision in the State budget.
Title: S.B. 738
Source: StateNet |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires county boards of education to create a program for reporting incidents of harassment or intimidation against students attending public schools under the jurisdiction of the board; authorizes specified persons to file a report regarding incidents of harassment or intimidation; requires boards to create victim of harassment or intimidation report forms; provides for the contents and distribution of victim of harassment or intimidation report forms.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb0740t.rtf
Title: H.B. 740
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education and the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board to certify certain social workers as professional personnel; relates to social workers employed in the education system.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1040t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1040
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires local education agencies to notify the parents or guardians of blind or visually impaired children, including children with multiple disabilities, of the availability of the educational programs offered by the Maryland School for the Blind.
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Vetoed 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires local education agencies to notify the parents or guardians of blind or visually impaired children, including children with multiple disabilities, of the availability of the educational programs offered by the State School for the Blind.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0174t.rtf
Title: S.B. 174
Source: StateNet |
Students--Mobility |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to pursue reciprocity agreements with other states regarding the terms of transfer of student dependents of military personnel to or from the public schools of this State; requires reciprocity agreements to include procedures for the transfer of student records and the awarding of credit for completed coursework; allows a student to satisfy State graduation requirements with credits from comparable completed coursework.
Title: H.B. 240
Source: StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a county board of education to authorize a teacher to make a reasonable search of specified students on a school-sponsored trip under specified circumstances.
Title: H.B. 130
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Extends the termination provision relating to a certain State and local aid program for the certification of teachers.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows former members who meet specified criteria to receive service credit in the Teachers' Pension System for military service; requires those former members to complete a claim for service credit and submit proper military forms to the Board of Trustees.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/sb/sb0397t.rtf
Title: S.B. 397
Source: StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the Superintendent and the Department of Education to monitor the financial status of each county board of education and report to the Governor and General Assembly on a biannual basis; requires local superintendents or chief executive officers of local school systems to file biannual reports and to make specified attestations; provides that if a local school system does not file a annual audit, the Superintendent is required to instruct the Comptroller to withhold 10% of state aid installments.
Title: S.B. 894
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows an individual honorably discharged from military service to apply to specified county boards of education to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from a specified full-time public or private high school under specified circumstances.
Title: H.B. 474
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires a public institution of higher education to allow a national guard student to withdraw from courses the student is currently enrolled in without negative consequences to the national guard student's academic standing if the national guard student's unit is activated and deployed to a location outside the State; requires a public institution of higher education to try to assist the national guard student in completing the course requirements.
Title: H.B. 1314
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Alters the requirements for exemption from payment of tuition at community colleges for specified individuals; relates to disabled persons or persons receiving retirement benefits under Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb0322e.rtf
Title: H.B. 322
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb0322e.rtf |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Requires certain community colleges to continue to receive additional ongoing unrestricted grants after a specified time.
Title: H.B. 641
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Alters the date by which the Secretary of State Police is required to report to the Governor and General Assembly on the status of the School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund; relates to drivers illegally failing to stop for school vehicles.
Title: H.B. 97
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes specified school vehicles to be operated for a specified amount of time; providing that school vehicles operating under a certain exception must be maintained under a certain preventive maintenance plan.
Title: H.B. 356
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends Division of Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Education responsibilities with county boards of education about transition services for students with disabilities; requires rehabilitation counselors to certain schools; provides for an employment plan.
Title: H.B. 988
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires a county board of education and the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City to require elementary schools with a suspension rate over 18% of enrollment to implement a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Program or an alternative behavioral modification program; requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations. http://mlis.state.md.us/2004rs/bills/hb/hb1288t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1288
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Rule Adoption 03/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Proposes rules to regulate the conduct of continuing education courses provided through various transmission technologies, distance learning, and definitions. MARYLAND REG 9765 (SN)
Title: COMAR 09.11.06, .01 thru .05
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 12/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that a provisional contract is to be used for resident teacher certificate holders and for conditional certificate holders. MARYLAND REG 9643 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.07.02, .01
Source: StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Rule Adoption 09/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes requirements for the administration and operation of programs funded through the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund Program, which provides financial support for after-school enrichment activities for school-age children. MARYLAND REG 9534 (SN)
Title: COMAR 07.04.12, 01 thru .08
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 08/2003 |
P-12 |
Implements the name change of provisional certificate to conditional certificate to align with changes made to the requirements for certification. MARYLAND REG 9511 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.07.01.01, 13A.07.02.01
Source: StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. The State Board and the State Superintendent of Schools shall annually review the progress of each local school system to determine if the school system is making AYP in reading and in mathematics and shall publicize the results of the review to each local school system, teachers, staff, and the community and include statistically sound disaggregated results.
B. The State Board, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools, may make monetary or nonmonetary rewards to schools, school systems, or both, that significantly close the achievement gap between subgroups or exceed their AYP in reading or in mathematics for 2 or more consecutive years and designate certain schools as distinguished schools that have made the greatest gains in closing the achievement gap or exceeding AYP.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.09
Source: Westlaw |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. If the State Board of Education rejects a local board of education reconstitution proposal, school improvement plan, or annual update, or approves the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools for State reconstitution of a school, the State Board of Education shall reconstitute the school.
B. Contract With Third Party.
(1) The State Board of Education may order the school to be operated under contract with a third party pursuant to conditions established by the State Board of Education.
(2) The State Board of Education, the local board of education, and the third-party contractor shall be parties to the contract.
(3) The contract may be for an initial term not to exceed 5 years, and may be subject to renewal upon review and approval by the State Board of Education.
(4) The contract shall include specific benchmarks by which the third-party contractor shall be measured. The State Board of Education shall monitor the contractor's performance.
(5) The local school system shall pay to the third-party contractor for the term of the contract the higher of an amount equal to the average system-wide per pupil expenditure times the full time equivalent enrollment for kindergarten and higher grades in the State reconstituted school as of September 30, or the total actual cost of operating the school for the previous school year. Adjustments in the average per pupil expenditure calculation may be made for certain targeted funding programs in accordance with the legal requirements for those programs. In addition the contractor will receive funds equal to the amount of support the school system received in the previous school year for pre-kindergarten services at the identified school.
C. Penalty Procedure. If a local school system fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, the State Superintendent of Schools may require the State Comptroller to withhold from that school system, pursuant to Education Article, §2-303(b), Annotated Code of Maryland, all or any part of:
(1) An appropriation made by the General Assembly; and
(2) Any other payment from funds budgeted by the State.
D. The State Board of Education may, for good cause shown, shorten or extend the procedural time limitations set forth in this chapter.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.10
Source: Westlaw |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Purpose. The purpose of this regulation is to establish a procedure to be used by the superintendent of each local school system to determine if a child participating in a home instruction program is receiving regular, thorough instruction during the school year in the studies usually taught in the public schools to children of the same age.
B. Written Agreement.
(1) A parent or guardian who chooses to teach his or her child at home shall initially sign a statement on a form prescribed by the State Department of Education which:
(a) Indicates consent to the requirements set forth in §§C, D, and E of this regulation; and
(b) Shall be submitted to the local superintendent at least 15 days before the beginning of a home instruction program.
(2) Annual Verification. Annually thereafter, before the beginning of the school year, a parent or guardian shall verify the continuation of home schooling for his or her child with the local school superintendent or with the supervising nonpublic school or institution described in Regulation .05 of this chapter.
(3) Change in Status. A parent or guardian shall notify the local school superintendent or the supervising nonpublic school or institution described in Regulation .05 of this chapter if a change occurs in the home school status of a child during the school year.
C. Instruction Program. The home instruction program shall:
(1) Provide regular, thorough instruction in the studies usually taught in the public schools to children of the same age;
(2) Include instruction in English, mathematics, science, social studies, art, music, health, and physical education; and
(3) Take place on a regular basis during the school year and be of sufficient duration to implement the instruction program.
D. Educational Materials. A parent or guardian who chooses to teach a child at home shall maintain a portfolio of materials which:
(1) Demonstrates the parent or guardian is providing regular, thorough instruction during the school year in the areas specified in §C(1) and (2);
(2) Includes relevant materials, such as instructional materials, reading materials, and examples of the child's writings, worksheets, workbooks, creative materials, and tests;
(3) Shall be reviewed by the local superintendent or the superintendent's designee at the conclusion of each semester of the local school system at such times as are mutually agreeable to the local superintendent or designee and the parent or guardian.
E. A parent or guardian shall agree to permit a representative of a local school system to review the portfolio of educational materials, discuss the instructional program, and observe instruction provided that all of the following requirements are met:
(1) The review is at a time and place mutually agreeable to the representative of the local school system and the parent or guardian;
(2) The purpose of the review is to ensure that the child is receiving regular, thorough instruction as set forth in §C;
(3) There are not more than three reviews during a school year.
F. Additional Requirements. A local school system may not impose additional requirements for home instruction programs other than those in these regulations.
Title: COMAR 13A.10.01.01
Source: Westlaw |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Failure to Consent. If a parent or guardian does not agree to the requirements of Regulation .01B, C, and D, above, a child shall be enrolled promptly in a public school or nonpublic school as defined in COMAR 13A.09.09.02B(9).
B. Deficiencies in the Program. If a local superintendent determines on the review of the home instruction program or inspection of the portfolio that a child is not receiving a regular, thorough instruction program in conformity with Regulation .01C and D, the local superintendent shall notify the parent or guardian in writing of any deficiencies in the program. The following apply:
(1) Within 30 days of receipt of notification of any deficiencies, the parent or guardian shall provide evidence to the local superintendent that the deficiency has been or is being corrected.
(2) If a local superintendent determines there is not a satisfactory plan to correct a deficiency or if a deficiency is not corrected, a child shall be enrolled promptly in a public school or a nonpublic school as defined in COMAR 13A.09.09.02B(4)(a).
Title: COMAR 13A.10.01.03
Source: Westlaw |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. A parent or guardian may provide instruction for a child at home without compliance with the requirements of this regulation, other than the requirements of Regulations .01B(1)(b) and .04, if that instruction is offered through correspondence courses and is under the supervision of a:
(1) School or institution offering an educational program operated by a bona fide church organization, and the supervision includes at a minimum all of the following components:
(a) Preenrollment conferences with parents or guardians,
(b) Textbooks, lesson materials, and other instructional materials or equipment designed to be used independently by the pupil at a site other than a school,
(c) Annual visits by supervisory personnel to the site where the pupil is receiving instruction, and
(d) Conferences with parents or guardians at appropriate intervals during the period of enrollment; or
(2) Nonpublic school with a certificate of approval from the State Board of Education, and the supervision includes at a minimum all of the following components:
(a) Textbooks, lesson materials, and other instructional materials or equipment designed to be used independently by the pupil at a site other than a school, and
(b) Assignment of a school-based teacher to assist the home teacher in using the correspondence courses and to assist the pupil by issuing progress reports, marking papers, and grading tests.
B. Annual Verification. The supervising nonpublic school or institution described in §A of this regulation annually shall:
(1) Verify with the local school superintendent the identification of home schooled students whose instruction is continuing under its supervision;
(2) Notify the local school superintendent of the identification of home schooled students whose instruction is newly added to its supervision; and
(3) Provide the local school superintendent with the identification of home schooled students whose instruction is no longer under its supervision.
C. Change in Status. The supervising nonpublic school or institution described in §A of this regulation shall notify the local school superintendent if a change occurs in the status of a home schooled student whose instruction was under its supervision during the school year.
Title: COMAR 13A.10.01.05
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Student Performance Areas. The following data-based areas shall be measured by the standards in Regulation .05 of this chapter and reported annually as provided in Regulation .06 of this chapter to assess school and student performance:
(1) Maryland School Assessment results in reading and mathematics and Maryland High School Assessment results in geometry;
(2) Average daily attendance rate of students in grades 1-12; and
(3) Yearly high school graduation rate.
B. Supporting Information. The following data-based areas shall be reported to provide contextual information, but may not be measured by standards:
(1) Students enrolled in grades Prekindergarten-2, including ungraded and preschool special education;
(2) Student mobility-entrants and withdrawals;
(3) Yearly dropout rate of students in grades 9-12;
(4) Norm-referenced test scores in reading and mathematics in grades 3-10;
(5) Maryland High School Assessment test scores in English I, algebra/data analysis, biology, and government;
(6) Maryland Functional Test Scores in reading, mathematics, and writing;
(7) Students participating in highly rigorous courses such as advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, and honors courses;
(8) The rate of students receiving services in special education, limited- English proficiency, Title 1, and free and reduced price meals;
(9) Wealth per pupil;
(10) Per pupil expenditure;
(11) Instructional staff, professional support staff, and instructional assistants per 1,000 students;
(12) Length of the school year;
(13) Length of the school day;
(14) The number of documented decisions of grade 12 students:
(a) Expecting acceptance at a 4-year college, a 2-year college, or a specialized school; or
(b) Planning to accept employment related to preparation, employment unrelated to preparation, or the military;
(15) A description of opportunities for gifted and talented students;
(16) High school completion of University System of Maryland course requirements for admission, career and technology education program requirements, or four of the following six performance indicators:
(a) Two or more credits in foreign language with a grade of B or better;
(b) Two or more credits of approved advanced technology with a grade of B or better;
(c) Mathematics courses beyond algebra II and geometry with a grade of B or better;
(d) Four credits of science with a grade of B or better;
(e) Score of 1,000 or higher on SAT-1, or 20 or higher on ACT, or both; and
(f) A cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale;
(17) The number of students with disabilities who receive the Maryland High School Certificate;
(18) The number of candidates who successfully complete the General Educational Development (GED) Tests;
(19) The percentage of :
(a) Teachers holding professional certificates;
(b) Highly qualified teachers;
(c) Teachers with conditional credentials; and
(d) Classes in the State not taught by highly qualified teachers, in the aggregate and disaggregated by high-poverty compared to low-poverty schools; and
(20) The number of teachers participating in high quality professional development.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.04
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. The attendance rate represents the average daily attendance rate of students in grades 1-12, including ungraded special education students. Summer school attendance is excluded. The proficient standard is 94 percent and the advanced standard is 96 percent.
B. The high school graduation rate represents the percentage of students who graduate from high school with a regular diploma, but does not include students who successfully complete the GED tests or students with disabilities who receive Maryland High School Certificates.
C. Student Achievement Rates.
(1) The student achievement rates represent the percentage of students who achieve at the basic, proficient, and advanced performance levels on the:
(a) Maryland School Assessments in reading and in mathematics;
(b) Maryland High School Assessment in geometry; and
(c) Science assessments to be developed before the beginning of the 2007-08 school year.
(2) The State Board shall establish the basic, proficient, and advanced student performance levels for reading and for mathematics for:
(a) Grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 by September 1, 2003; and
(b) Grades 4, 6, and 7 by September 1, 2004.
(3) The State Board shall establish the graduation rate standards by September 1, 2003.
(4) By September 1, 2003, the State Board shall establish AYP for schools, school systems, and the State for:
(a) Reading;
(b) Mathematics; and
(c) Graduation.
(5) The State Board shall establish the basic, proficient, and advanced student performance levels for science by September 1, 2008.
(6) The State Board shall review and revise as appropriate AYP by September 1, 2008.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.05
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Each local school system shall allow a student attending a public elementary or secondary school to attend a safe public elementary or secondary school within the school system if the student:
(1) Attends a persistently dangerous public elementary or secondary school; or
(2) Is a victim of a violent criminal offense as defined in Criminal Law Article, §14-101, Annotated Code of Maryland:
(a) During the regular school day; or
(b) While attending a school sponsored event in or on the grounds of a public elementary or secondary school that the student attends.
B. The local school system shall effectuate a transfer pursuant to §A of this regulation in a timely manner following either the:
(1) Designation of a school as persistently dangerous; or
(2) Conviction of or adjudication of delinquency of the perpetrator of a violent criminal offense.
C. To the extent possible, the local school system shall allow a student to transfer to a school that is making adequate yearly progress and has not been identified as being in school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring.
D. Each local superintendent of schools shall certify annually in writing to the State Superintendent of Schools that Regulations .18-.20 of this chapter are implemented.
E. The State Department of Education shall:
(1) Maintain a list of schools determined to be persistently dangerous; and
(2) Revise the list annually.
Title: COMAR 13A.08.01.20
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. School Identified for Improvement.
(1) Before the beginning of school year 2003-04 and annually by July 1 thereafter, each local school system shall identify for school improvement each elementary or secondary school that has not made AYP in reading, in mathematics, or as applicable, in the attendance rate or in the graduation rate for 2 consecutive years.
(2) To insure that all students reach the State's proficient level in reading, mathematics, and science by 2013 -14, within 3 months or sooner after identification, each identified school shall develop a 2-year school improvement plan that:
(a) Focuses on strengthening core academic subjects;
(b) Incorporates strategies based on scientifically based research that will strengthen core academic subjects;
(c) Includes funds for high quality professional development; and
(d) Has specific measurable objectives for each student subgroup.
(3) Each local school system within 45 days of receiving a plan shall:
(a) Establish a peer review process to assist with review of the plan;
(b) Promptly review the plan;
(c) Work with the schools as necessary; and
(d) Approve the school plan if the plan meets the requirements of all applicable federal and State laws and regulations.
(4) The school improvement plan shall be implemented the school year following identification except for school year 2003-04 when the plan shall be implemented as soon as practicable during the 2003-04 school year.
(5) Each local school system shall provide a school identified for improvement with technical assistance grounded in scientifically based research that includes the following:
(a) Assistance in analyzing data from the State assessment system, and other examples of student work, to:
(i) Identify and develop solutions to problems in instruction;
(ii) Increase parental involvement;
(iii) Improve professional development; and
(iv) Implement the school plan;
(b) Assistance in identifying and implementing professional development and instructional strategies and methods that have proved effective, through scientifically based research, in addressing the specific instructional issues that caused the local school system to identify the school for improvement; and
(c) Assistance in analyzing and revising the school's budget so that the school allocates its resources more effectively to the activities most likely to increase student academic achievement and remove the school from school improvement status.
B. School Identified for Corrective Action.
(1) Before the beginning of school year 2003-04 and annually by July 1 thereafter, each local school system shall place a school in corrective action if a school has not made AYP in reading, in mathematics, or as applicable, in the attendance rate or in the graduation rate after 2 years or more under local reconstitution or after 2 years in school improvement.
(2) For a school under corrective action, each local school system shall continue to provide technical assistance as required under §A(5) of this regulation and shall take at least one of the following corrective actions:
(a) Replace the school staff who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress;
(b) Institute and fully implement a new curriculum, including providing high qualify professional development for all staff who are relevant to the failure to make AYP, that is based on scientifically based research and offers substantial promise of improving educational achievement for low- achieving students and enabling the school to make AYP;
(c) Significantly decrease management authority at the school level;
(d) Appoint an outside expert to advise the school on its progress toward making AYP based on its school plan;
(e) Extend the length of the school year or school day for the school; or
(f) Restructure the internal organizational structure of the school.
C. School Identified for Restructuring.
(1) Before the beginning of school year 2003-04 and annually by July 1 thereafter, a local school system shall identify a school for restructuring if after 1 full year of corrective action the school does not make AYP in reading, in mathematics, or as applicable, in the attendance rate or in the graduation rate.
(2) The local school system shall prepare a plan for alternative governance and implement the alternative governance arrangement not later than the beginning of the next school year.
(3) One of the following alternative governance arrangements shall be implemented consistent with State law and as approved by the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Board:
(a) Reopening the school as a public charter school consistent with the requirements of State law and regulation;
(b) Replacing all or most of the school staff including the principal who are relevant to the failure to make AYP;
(c) Entering into a contract with an entity, such as a private management company, with a demonstrated record of effectiveness, to operate the public school; or
(d) Any other major restructuring of the school's governance arrangement that makes fundamental reform such as significant changes in the school's staffing and governance to improve academic achievement in the school and that has substantial promise of enabling the school to make AYP.
D. General Requirements for School Improvement, Corrective Action, or Restructuring.
(1) Before identifying a school for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring, a local school system shall provide the school with an opportunity to review the school-level data, including academic assessment data, on which the proposed identification is based.
(2) Supporting Evidence.
(a) If the principal of a school that a local school system proposes to identify for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring believes, or a majority of the parents of the students enrolled in the school believe, that the proposed identification is in error for statistically significant reasons, the principal may provide supporting evidence to the local school system.
(b) The local school system shall consider the evidence referred to in §D(2)(a) of this regulation before making a final determination.
(c) The local school system shall submit its final determination to the Department for its review and approval.
(3) The local school system shall make public a final determination of the status of the school with respect to identification not later than 30 days after it provides the school with the opportunity to review the data on which the proposed identification is based.
(4) Each local school system shall provide to parents of each student enrolled in a school identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring, notice and an explanation of what the identification means, the reasons for the identification, what the school is doing to address the problem of low achievement, how parents can become involved in addressing the academic issues, and any other information required by applicable federal or State law or regulation.
(5) If a school makes AYP for 1 year or has extenuating circumstances beyond its control, such as an act of nature or an extraordinary fiscal constraint beyond its control, a local school system may delay for 1 year identification of a school for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; but no such period of delay shall be taken into account in determining the number of consecutive years of failure to make AYP .
(6) If any school identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring makes AYP for 2 consecutive years, the local school system may not subject the school to the requirements of school improvement, corrective action, restructuring or identify the school for school improvement for the succeeding year.
(7) A school receiving funds under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act must comply with all applicable State and federal requirements for schools identified for improvement, corrective action, and restructuring.
(8) If the State Board determines that a local school system has failed to fulfill its responsibilities as set forth in this regulation, the State Board shall take appropriate corrective action, including withholding or redirection of State and federal funding.
E. Schools Previously Identified for Improvement, Corrective Action, or Reconstitution.
(1) A school in the first or second year of school improvement under Title I on January 8, 2002, shall be treated by the local school system as a school in the first or second year of school improvement for the 2002-03 school year.
(2) A school in the first or second year under local reconstitution on January 8, 2002, that is not also a school under Title I, shall be treated as a school in the first or second year of school improvement for the 2002-03 school year.
(3) A school in school improvement under Title I for 3 or more consecutive school years preceding January 8, 2002, shall be treated by the local school system as a school under corrective action for the 2002-03 school year.
(4) A school under local reconstitution for 3 or more consecutive school years preceding January 8, 2002, that is not also a school under Title I, shall be treated by the local school system as a school under corrective action for the 2002-03 school year.
(5) Any school that was in corrective action on January 8, 2002 shall be treated by the local school system as a school requiring restructuring for the 2003-04 school year.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.07
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Local School System Improvement.
(1) The State Board, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools or upon its own motion, shall identify for improvement any local school system that for 2 consecutive years fails to make AYP in reading, in mathematics, or as applicable, in the attendance rate or in the graduation rate.
(2) Before identifying a local school system for improvement, the State Board shall:
(a) Provide the local school system with an opportunity to review the data on which the proposed identification is based;
(b) Give the local school system an opportunity to provide supporting evidence if the system believes that the proposed identification is in error for statistically significant reasons; and
(c) Make a final determination of the status of the local school system with respect to identification not later than 30 days after it provides the system with the opportunity to review the data on which the identification is based.
(3) The State Board shall promptly provide parents of each student enrolled in the schools served by the local school system identified for improvement notice, the results of the review, the reasons for identification of the school system for improvement, and how parents can participate in upgrading the quality of the local school system.
(4) Within 3 months of identification, the local school system shall revise applicable components of the school system master plan to:
(a) Incorporate scientifically based research strategies that strengthen the core academic program in the schools in the system;
(b) Identify actions that have the likelihood of improving student achievement to meet the State's proficiency standards;
(c) Address professional development needs of staff in schools not making AYP;
(d) Include specific measurable achievement goals and targets for each of the subgroups of students;
(e) Address the fundamental teaching and learning needs in schools and specific academic problems of low-achieving schools;
(f) Incorporate as appropriate activities before school, after school, during the summer, and during an extended school year;
(g) Specify the responsibilities of the local school system under the plan; and
(h) Include strategies to promote effective parental involvement in the school.
(5) The local school system shall implement the plan not later than the school year following the year in which the school system was identified for improvement.
(6) Technical Assistance.
(a) The Department shall, if requested, provide technical assistance grounded in scientifically based research that better enables the local school system to develop and implement its plan and work with schools needing improvement.
(b) The Department may use an entity to provide the technical assistance.
B. Local School System Corrective Action.
(1) The State Board, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools or upon its own motion, shall identify a local school system for corrective action if a local school system does not make AYP in reading, in mathematics, or as applicable, in the attendance rate or in the graduation rate for 2 consecutive years after identification of the school system for school improvement.
(2) Before identifying a local school system for corrective action, the State Board shall:
(a) Provide the local school system with an opportunity to review the data on which the proposed identification is based;
(b) Give the local school system an opportunity to provide supporting evidence if the system believes that the proposed identification is in error for statistically significant reasons; and
(c) Make a final determination of the status of the local school system with respect to identification not later than 30 days after it provides the system with the opportunity to review the data on which the identification is based.
(3) For a local school system identified for corrective action, the State Board and the State Superintendent of Schools shall continue to make available technical assistance and shall take at least one of the following corrective actions:
(a) Defer, reduce, or redirect State and federal programmatic and administrative funds including per pupil funding;
(b) Order the local school system to institute and fully implement a new curriculum aligned with the voluntary State curriculum that is based on State and local academic content and achievement standards, including high quality professional development based on scientifically based research;
(c) Order the local school system to replace school principals and executive officers who are relevant to the failure to make AYP with qualified personnel approved by the State Board and the State Superintendent of Schools;
(d) Remove particular schools from the direct control of the local school board and establish alternative arrangements for public governance and supervision of such schools;
(e) Order a reorganization of the local school system as approved by the State Board and the State Superintendent of Schools that groups specified schools under the direct supervision of an executive officer approved by the State Superintendent of Schools who reports directly to the local school superintendent or chief executive officer;
(f) Through court proceeding, appoint a receiver or trustee to administer the affairs of the local school system in place of the superintendent and school board; or
(g) With legislative authorization, abolish or restructure the local school system.
(4) The State Board shall publish and disseminate to parents and the public information on any corrective action the State Board takes.
(5) The State Board may delay implementation of corrective action if a local school system makes AYP for 1 year or its failure to make AYP is due to exceptional circumstances such as acts of nature or an unforeseen decline in financial resources beyond the control of the local school system. A period of delay under this subsection may not be taken into account in determining the number of consecutive years of failure to make AYP.
(6) If a local school system makes AYP for 2 consecutive years beginning after the date of identification, the State Board shall not identify the local school system for improvement or for corrective action for the succeeding school year.
C. Hearings.
(1) If the State Superintendent of Schools recommends that a local school system be placed under corrective action, the State Superintendent of Schools shall provide a written explanation of the basis for the recommendation.
(2) Within 10 days of the date of the recommendation by the State Superintendent of Schools, the local board of education may file a written request for a hearing before the State Board. If a hearing is requested, the hearing shall be scheduled promptly.
(3) The hearing shall proceed in the following manner:
(a) The State Superintendent of Schools or designee shall describe the rationale for the recommendation and submit supporting documentation;
(b) The local board of education through a designee shall present the board's position with respect to the recommendation and submit supporting documentation;
(c) Members of the school community and parents of students in the school may file written comments regarding the recommendations;
(d) The State Board may ask questions during each presentation; and
(e) Counsel may be present and assist each board, but staff members shall make the presentations.
(4) The State Board shall determine by a preponderance of the evidence if the State Superintendent of Schools has provided a sufficient and reasonable basis to support the State Superintendent's recommendation.
D. Transition.
(1) For the 2003-04 school year, the State Board shall identify for corrective action any local school system that as of January 8, 2002, has had 25 percent or more of its schools under local or State reconstitution for more than 3 school years.
(2) For the 2003-04 school year, the State Board shall identify for improvement any local school system that as of September 1, 2003, has 25 percent or more of its schools newly identified for school improvement or corrective action.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.08
Source: Westlaw |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Maryland School Performance Report.
(1) Annually before the beginning of the school year, the Department shall publish the Maryland School Performance Report for the State, school systems, and schools.
(2) Annually, each local school system shall publish the Maryland School Performance Report for the school system, schools, and students.
B. Contents of Report.
(1) Each report shall include student performance data, school performance data, and supporting information, and shall be available in multiple formats.
(2) Student performance data shall be reported with percentages in both summary form and disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and status as economically disadvantaged.
(3) Data from a public school student attending for less than a full academic year an alternative education program or school operated by a local school system, a juvenile institution, a public charter school, a nonpublic school, the Maryland School for the Deaf, or the Maryland School for the Blind shall be included in the performance report of the local school system in which the student was last enrolled.
(4) Data from a public school student attending for a full academic year an alternative education program or school operated by a local school system, a juvenile institution, a public charter school, a nonpublic school, the Maryland School for the Deaf, or the Maryland School for the Blind shall be included in the performance report of the alternative school attended by the student and in the performance report of the local school system in which the student was last enrolled.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.06
Source: Westlaw |
School Safety |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes that all students in Maryland's public schools, without exception and regardless of race, ethnicity, region, religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, age, or disability, have the right to educational environments that are: A. Safe; B. Appropriate for academic achievement; and C. Free from any form of harassment.
Title: COMAR 13A.01.04.03
Source: StateNet |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Implements the Unsafe School Choice Option of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
A. In Regulations .19 and .20 of this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Conviction of or adjudication of" means that the perpetrator has been convicted of, adjudicated delinquent of, pleads guilty or nolo contendere with respect to, or receives probation before judgment with respect to, a violent criminal offense.
(2) "Corrective action plan" means a plan that includes information concerning conditions in the school that may have contributed to the commission of the offenses set forth in §B(4) of this regulation. A corrective action plan shall describe any behavioral interventions that will be used to address problems in the school.
(3) "Local school system" means any of the 24 local public school systems in the State.
(4) "Persistently dangerous school" means a school in which each year for 3 consecutive school years, the total number of student suspensions for more than 10 days or expulsions for any of the following offenses equals 2-1/2 percent or more of the total number of students enrolled in the school:
(a) Arson or fire;
(b) Drugs;
(c) Explosives;
(d) Firearms;
(e) Other guns;
(f) Other weapons;
(g) Physical attack on a student;
(h) Physical attack on a school system employee or other adult; and
(i) Sexual assault.
(5) "Safe school" means a school that has not been placed on probationary status or designated as persistently dangerous pursuant to Regulation .19 of this chapter.
(6) "School grounds" means a local school system owned or leased building and land that surrounds a school building and also includes school vehicles.
(7) "Violent criminal offense" means a crime of violence as defined in Criminal Law Article, §14-101, Annotated Code of Maryland.
Title: COMAR 13A.08.01.18
Source: StateNet |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. Probationary Status.
(1) The State Board of Education shall place on probationary status any school having each year for a period of 2 consecutive school years, the total number of student suspensions for more than 10 days or expulsions for any of the offenses set forth in Regulation .18B(4) of this chapter equal to 2-1/2 percent or more of the total number of students enrolled in the school.
(2) The local school system shall notify in a timely manner the parents of each student attending the school that the State has placed the school on probationary status.
(3) The local superintendent shall submit a corrective action plan to the State Superintendent of Schools within 30 days of being notified by the State Board of Education that a school in the jurisdiction of the school system is on probationary status.
(4) During the probationary status the school shall implement in a timely manner strategies to reduce the commission of offenses set forth in Regulation .18B(4) of this chapter.
B. Persistently Dangerous Designation.
(1) After placing a school on probationary status, the State Board of Education shall designate that school as persistently dangerous if during the next consecutive school year the total number of student suspensions for more than 10 days or expulsions for any of the offenses set forth in Regulation . 18B(4) of this chapter equals 2-1/2 percent or more of the total number of students enrolled in the school.
(2) The local school system shall notify in a timely manner the parents of each student attending the school:
(a) That the State has identified the school as persistently dangerous; and
(b) Of the opportunity for school transfer as set forth in Regulation . 20A(1) of this chapter.
(3) If a school has been designated a persistently dangerous school, the school shall retain that designation for at least 1 full school year.
(4) Each year that a school remains identified as persistently dangerous, the local school superintendent shall submit a corrective action plan to the State Superintendent of Schools within 30 days of being notified by the State that the status of the school as persistently dangerous has not changed.
(5) The State Board of Education shall remove a school's designation as a persistently dangerous school if the school no longer meets the requirements set forth in Regulation .18B(4) of this chapter.
Title: COMAR 13A.08.01.19
Source: Westlaw |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 06/2003 |
P-12 |
A. In General. Additional specific certification areas shall be added to a professional certificate if the applicant:
(1) Meets the content and the professional education course requirements of the additional area under COMAR 13A.12.02 and obtains a qualifying score as established by the State Superintendent of Schools on the appropriate teacher certification tests unless otherwise exempt under Regulation .05D of this chapter; or
(2) Meets the requirements under COMAR 13A.12.03 or 13A.12.04.
B. Certain Areas with Content Tests. Areas with content specific tests shall be added to a professional certificate, if the applicant obtains a qualifying score as established by the State Superintendent of Schools on the tests required for certification. The State Superintendent of Schools shall maintain a list of the tests required to add an endorsement for each certification area.
Title: COMAR 13A.12.01.13
Source: Westlaw |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Extends the implementation date for the applicability of specified standards for data collection forms for schools, school systems, and the state department of education. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb1055t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Defines "informal kinship care" as a child who is not under the care or custody of social services living with a relative due to serious family hardship. Defines "serious family hardship." Requires a district receiving a child living in an informal kinship care situation to receive an appropriate education and include the child into its FTE enrollment. Except under certain circumstances, the district the child left must pay the receiving district the local current per-pupil expense in the sending district or receiving district, whichever is less. If the child is disabled, the sending district must pay the receiving district three times the local current per-pupil expense of the sending or receiving district, whichever is less. If the child is disabled and needs a nonpublic educational program, the sending district must pay. Requires every receiving district to give the state superintendent the name of every child in an informal kinship care relationship in its district, and make a preliminary determination of the sending district responsible for each child in informal kinship care. Establishes system by which sending district determined to be financially responsible may appeal that determination to the state superintendent within 30 days of mailing of notification by receiving agency to state superintendent. Superintendent has authority to make final determination on sending district's financial responsibility.
Requires a county superintendent to allow a child living in informal kinship care to attend school in the superintendent's district upon submission of a sworn affidavit from the relative providing informal kinship care. Specifies the required content and form of the sworn affidavit. Specifies that the parent or legal guardian of a child in an informal kinship care relationship has final decisionmaking authority on the child's educational needs. Specifies data that districts are required to report to the department on or before September 1, 2003 regarding family hardship waivers.
Title: S.B. 32
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Defines "residential child care program" and specifies that group homes, alternative living units and emergency shelter care are classified as such. Requires a licensed operator of a residential child care program who receives state funding and who has legal custody of a child at least 5 but less than 16 to enroll the child in the school system in which the program is located, unless the program runs an approved educational program in accordance with the licensing regulations for the residential child care program. Also requires the operator to expeditiously start and monitor the transfer of the child's academic records, to ensure that the records are transferred to the school the child will attend while living at the program. Allows an operator to ask for a meeting with the child's teachers, and requires the operator to meet the child's teachers when enrolling the child and at any other time the school or teacher requests. Requires the operator to sign the child's report card, make sure the report card is returned to school, and keep a copy of the report card in the child's case record. Requires the department licensing the group home to inform any relevant group home of these requirements. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0178e.rtf
Title: S.B. 178
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Makes juvenile justice alternative education pilot program a permanent, non-pilot program. Specifies that the juvenile justice alternative education program is for students who are suspended, expelled, identified as candidates for being suspended or expelled, or ordered to attend by the juvenile court as a condition of probation. Requires the department of education to oversee and the state board of education to organize and run the program. Establishes composition of juvenile justice alternative education advisory board membership. Specifies that the state board must, with the advice of the advisory board, select a private agency to administer the program, and that the program may be operated in a facility owned and operated by a private party or a county board. Specifies that student who is suspended, expelled or is identified as a candidate for suspension or expulsion must attend the program starting the first day of the student's suspension or expulsion. Requires students to receive courses focusing on English/language arts, math, science and social studies. Requires every board to consider course credit earned in such a program as credit earned in a county school. Requires the county board to pay the juvenile justice alternative education program the basic current expenses per pupil for each student transferred to the program from the county's schools.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0490e.rtf
Title: H.B. 490
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires employers to provide workers' compensation coverage to students in unpaid work based learning experiences; designates the employer of the student for purposes of workers' compensation coverage; allows the participating employer to satisfy this certain obligation if a county board of education secures certain workers' compensation for that student. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb1128e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1128
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Maryland Public Charter School Program. Defines public charter school. Designates local board of education as the primary public chartering authority for granting a charter. Designates as the secondary public chartering authority the state board acting in its appeal review capacity or as the public chartering authority for a restructured school. Establishes who may submit an application to the local board to establish a charter school. Prohibits a public chartering authority from granting a charter to certain schools. Requires that except for a restructured school, a county board must review an application to establish a charter school and render a decision within 120 days of receipt of the application. In the case of a restructured school, requires county board to review an application and render a decision within 30 days of receipt of the application. Requires state board to render an appeal decision within 120 days of the filing of an appeal. Requires professional staff at charter schools to have the appropriate Maryland certification. Requires charter schools to comply with the laws governing other public schools unless waiver is received from the state board. Forbids the state board from granting a waiver from laws regarding audit requirements, measurement of student academic achievement, including all assessments required for other public schools and other assessments mutually agreed upon by the public chartering authority and the school, or the student or employee health, safety or civil rights. Provides for bargaining rights for certain employees. Requires a county board to disburse to a charter school an amount of local, state and federal money equal to the amount given to other public schools in the district, and that the state board or county board may give surplus materials or other equipment to a charter school.
Requires every county board to develop a public charter school policy and submit it to the state board by November 1, 2003, which policy must establish guidelines and procedures regarding specified areas. Requires the department to create and provide every local board with model charter school policy language for possible adoption.
Requires the state board to submit, based on information from every local board and the public, a report by October 1, 2006 to the general assembly evaluating the public charter school program. The report must address the advisability of continuing, modifying, expanding or terminating the program.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0075e.rtf
Title: S.B. 75
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes in Allegany County a licensing procedure for specified for-profit businesses and qualified organizations to sell paper gaming devices and for persons to sell paper gaming devices to licensees; authorizes the board of county commissioners to impose specified paper gaming taxes on licensees; establishes a special gaming fund, a continuing, nonlapsing fund that may be used only to benefit fire and rescue departments and to pay for specified school costs. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb1000t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1000
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the pilot program to use solar energy in public school buildings. Extends program from solely newly constructed buildings to also include existing or renovated public schools. Specifies how much of an elementary, middle or high school's electrical energy needs/demand the grant will cover for conversion to solar energy. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0002t.rtf
Title: S.B. 2
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Extends the Aging Schools Program to fiscal year 2004 and every fiscal year thereafter; Requires the impact of the proposed goals, objectives and implementation strategies on public school facilities and capital improvements that may be needed to implement the district master plan to be included in the comprehensive master plan that every district must annually submit to the department. Extends through fiscal year 2005 the requirement that the state provide 90% of costs for school construction projects in Baltimore City and 75% of costs above 20 million. Requires Baltimore to provide at least $16 million for school construction through fiscal year 2005. Expands duties and membership of Task Force to Study Public School Facilities. Requires the task force to submit an interim report of its findings and recommendations by December 31, 2002 and a final report of findings and recommendations by December 31, 2003.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0498e.rtf
Title: S.B. 498
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows an honorably discharged veteran to apply to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from an accredited full-time public or private school in the individual's junior or senior year to enlist in the U.S. military during World War II or the Korean Conflict. The veteran must apply to the county board in the county where the individual resides or where the school from which the individual withdrew was located. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0056e.rtf
Title: S.B. 56
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Includes supervisory noncertificated employees in the definition of public school employee as it applies to provisions that relate to organizations of employees in Baltimore County. States that of three permitted organizations in Baltimore County to be exclusive representative of all public school employees in a county, one organization must represent school administrators and one must represent supervisory noncertificated employees. Authorizes only three nonsupervisory units in addition to a specified supervisory unit established by the act. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0778t.rtf
Title: H.B. 778
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Leadership |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Study Commission on Educators' Time and Paperwork. Specifies the composition, powers, and duties of the commission. Provides a specified staff for the commission. Requires the commission to report findings and recommendations, including any proposed statutory changes, to the governor and the general assembly by December 31, 2003 for consideration in the general assembly's 2004 regular session. Includes the amount of paperwork of a school administrator. Requires one commission member to be a speech-language pathologist in a public school, to be appointed by the state board of audiologists, hearing aid dispensers and speech-language pathologists.
Bill as presented to governor: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0873e.rtf
Veto letter: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/veto_letters/hb0873.htm
Title: H.B. 873
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Leadership |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Study Commission of Educators' Time and Paperwork; establishes membership of commission. Requires the commission to: (1) conduct a survey and collect information relating to the issue of workload, administrative and bureaucratic tasks, and other intrusions on time that detract from the quality of teaching and learning as it impacts general and special education employees and speech-language pathologists; (2) analyze best practices used in other states to combat this problem; (3) analyze the benefits of a statewide individualized education program (IEP) form; and (4) pursue any other tasks that may reduce paperwork or reduce intrusions on time that detract from the quality of teaching and learning. Requires the commission to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed statutory changes, to the governor and the general assembly on or before December 31, 2003.
Bill as sent to governor: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0558e.rtf
Governor's veto letter: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/veto_letters/sb0558.htm
Title: S.B. 558
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes early childhood educational and developmental programs to enter specified agreements to promote early childhood educational programs. States that the purpose of the agreement is to collaborate and develop a plan to provide parents of indigent or at-risk children with information on the importance of early childhood education and the availability of specified services and programs such as mental health services for young children and children with developmental disabilities. Requires the state department of education to assist in developing the agreement, monitor and review results from the agreement, and submit an annual report to the legislature on the program's effectiveness in promoting early childhood educational and developmental programs. Governor letter regarding veto: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/veto_letters/hb0635.htm and bill as submitted to governor: http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0635e.rtf
Title: H.B. 635
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed by Governor 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Requires at least a certain amount of funding for certain student financial assistance programs to be allocated to institutions of higher education to fund Education Excellence Awards.
Title: H.B. 774
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes that certain students, other than nonresident aliens, shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at specified public institutions of higher education; prohibits institutions of higher education from awarding degrees to specified individuals; requires the Higher Education Commission to adopt regulations; relates to tuition charges for individuals attending public institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 253
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed by Governor 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the College Savings Plans of Maryland and the State Prepaid College Trust; changes the name of the Maryland Higher Education Investment Board to the College Savings Plans of Maryland Board; provides that the plan, the board and investment accounts are not subject to specified provisions of law; authorizes the inspections of certain public records.
Title: H.B. 30
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed by Governor 05/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the College Savings Plans of Maryland; establishes the State Prepaid College Trust; provides that the College Savings Plans, the Board, and investment accounts are not subject to specified provisions of law; authorizes the inspection of certain public records.
Title: S.B. 499
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Repeals the prohibition against possessing a portable pager on public school property in Baltimore City and Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties. Requires every local board, in collaboration with the state department of education, to develop its own policies regarding the use of portable pagers and cell phones on public school property. Specifies that it is not the intent of the general assembly to encourage the use of portable pagers and cellular telephones on public school property during school hours in any county. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/sb/sb0466e.rtf
Title: S.B. 466
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires each county board of education to annually pay to the Maryland School for the Blind an amount equal to the local share of the basic cost to support the cost of instructional programming. Requires every county board to include a student sent to the Maryland School for the Blind in the full-time equivalent enrollment used for calculating the required local funds appropriated. Requires the board of directors of the Maryland School for the Blind to report twice annually to every local board the number of blind children attending from the district and the name of every blind child charged to the county. Requires Baltimore to pay $100 twice a year for every child sent from the county to the school, and to levy on the county's assessable property $200 for every blind child sent to the Maryland School for the Blind from the county, with any year-end balance from the levy reverting to the county treasury, to be included in the next levy or paid immediately to the Maryland School for the Blind.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0948e.rtf
Title: H.B. 948
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Rule Adoption 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Ensures State Regulations are in conformance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Implements standards for student behavior intervention practices requiring local school systems and certain other institutions that receive certain State funding to comply with certain requirements and practices. Requires certain policies and procedures be set for compliance with standards for student behavior intervention practices. Makes technical amendments. MARYLAND REG 9412 (SN)
Title: COMAR 13A.05.01.13 thru .16; 13A.05.02.04, .05, .13; 13A.08.04.01 thru .06
Source: StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Expands the definition of artistically gifted and talented student from including one who has "outstanding abilities" in the creative, visual or performing arts to one one who either has outstanding abilities in the area of talent and performing, or shows the potential for performing, at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with other students of a similar age, experience or environment. Adds to existing language that gifted student needs services beyond those provided by the regular school program, to find that gifted and talented students are to be found in youth from all cultural groups and economic levels as well as in all areas of human endeavor. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0307t.rtf
Title: H.B. 307
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the creation of a State Debt to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for the allocation to eligible school systems under the Aging School Program for the repair, renovation, and capital improvements of qualified zone academies.
Title: S.B. 7
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2002 |
Postsec. |
Makes definitions relating to the Maryland Higher Education Investment Board. MARYLAND REG 9299 (SN)
Title: COMAR 14.15.02.01 -.04
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Adopted 12/2002 |
Postsec. |
Provides procedures for the computation application of certain addition and subtraction modifications for an individual who establishes an account under the Maryland College Investment Plan. Makes contribution to the account. MARYLAND REG 9258 (SN)
Title: COMAR 03.04.02.15
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Performance Reporting Web site: http://msp.msde.state.md.us/
Source: Maryland Department of Education Web site |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 09/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that K-16 Leadership Council be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by K-12 and postsecondary officials; and that the council study and plan for the establishment of the K-16 Research and Development Institute and the Maryland Clearinghouse for Educational Statistics. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0661e.rtf
Title: H.B. 661
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires districts by 2007-08 school year to provide free prekindergarten programs to all eligible children within district. Defines "eligible children" as free/reduced lunch eligible if child were in kindergarten; any whose parent wishes to enroll in public prekindergarten program; and who are 4 years old by September 1 of the school year in which the parent wishes to enroll the child. In each district's comprehensive master plan, board must identify strategies to ensure that publicly-funded prekindergarten programs are available to all eligible children by the 2007-08 school year. Releases publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs from minimum school day/holiday requirements of K-12 schools. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. |
Providing that a student who resides in Howard County or Prince George's County and attends the Laurel College Center is deemed an in-county student; prohibiting specified students from being subject to specified out-of-county fees; and providing that the Act applies to specified students who attend the Laurel College Center on or after a specified date.
Title: HB 522
Source: State website |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Baltimore County to conduct noncompetitive negotiations for specified procurements, contracts in amounts not exceeding $100,000; establishing procurements by noncompetitive negotiation as an exception to the general requirements for procurements by community colleges; requiring the Board of Trustees of the Community College for Baltimore County to establish standards and procedures relating to noncompetitive negotiation procurements; etc.
Title: HB 572
Source: State website |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Altering the fiscal year in which unrestricted grants of specified amounts shall be distributed to the boards of each small community college; requiring that Allegany College of Maryland and Garrett Community College receive additional unrestricted grants in the amount of $360,000 and $240,000, respectively, in fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005; and providing for the termination of the Act.
Title: HB 179
Source: State website |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for certain unrestricted grants to be provided to the Board of certain small community colleges.
Title: HB 179
Source: Lexis |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
An act extending the Innovative Partnerships for Technology Program for state community colleges for a certain number of years, alters the institutions eligible under the program and the maximum state contributions.
Title: HB 1237
Source: Lexis |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires governor to include in state budget at least 80% of funds appropriated in prior fiscal year for specified need-based financial aid programs and other programs. Changes name of Maryland Higher Education Commission's State Scholarship Administration to Office of Student Financial Assistance. Allows students in grades 9 and 10 who qualify for a guaranteed access grant award on basis of financial need to prequalify for such award by agreeing in writing to specified criteria, including refraining from substance abuse and participating in the College Readiness Outreach Program. Establishes the College Readiness Outreach Program to help students who qualify for a guaranteed access award in 9th or 10th grade to continue to higher education. Requires designation of state and regional program coordinators to cooperate with districts in offering guidance and mentoring to participating high school students. Permits contracts between commission and department and existing organizations to provide mentoring and counseling. Provides for supplementation of mentors with other individuals. Requires state to fund 50% of specified costs of program. Extends deadline for submission of Education Excellence Awards applications under specified circumstances. Establishes additional commission responsibilities for administration of educational excellence award program. Establishes Maryland Graduate and Professional Development Program for full-time and part-time students in specified professional fields (not education.) Requires College Readiness Outreach Program to be established over a 5-year period starting in FY04 to the extent funds are available. Requires that in first year, up to 1,000 students participate in 4 specified counties, and that additional counties be added until students in all counties are participating. Requires that performance evaluation of College Readiness Outreach Program be completed and report on program delivered to assembly by July 1, 2007. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0661e.rtf
Title: H.B. 661
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes tobacco tax as well as special fund to dedicate tobacco tax revenues for education funding. Monies are to 1) provide unrestricted grants to districts; 2) assist local lead agencies and Baltimore City under the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program; and 3) provide funding for adult education and literacy services. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires department to gather a committee of interested stakeholders to examine specified issues related to enrollment counts to ensure that the new school finance system, which is based on the number of pupils in each district, accurately reflects the workload of each school system at the time education funding is distributed. The committee must report on its findings and recommedations by December 30, 2003. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the department to contact with a public or private organization by June 30, 2012 to evaluate education finance adequacy issues in the state. At a minimum, the adequacy study shall: (1) identify a base funding level for students without special needs; (2) establish per pupil weights for students with special needs to be applied to the base funding level; and (3) provide an analysis of the effect of concentrations of poverty on adequacy targets. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Does Money Matter? |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires department to evaluate the effect of increased state aid for education on student and school performance in each locla school system. Initial report must be submitted by December 31, 2006; final report must be submitted by December 31, 2008. Reports must include specified information and analyses. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes legislative intent that programs that received funding in the FY03 budget be funded in future state budgets. Programs are: Gifted and Talented Summer Center; Destination ImagiNation; Disruptive Youth (Annapolis Roads Middle School); Center for Educational Progress; Food Services; Science and Mathematics Initiative; Maryland Technology Academy; Education Modernization Initiative; Challenge Grants; Reconstitution; School Performance Recognition; Staff Development Centers; and Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Education Enhancement. Also establishes legislative intent that specified discretionary programs funded in FY 03 be consolidated into either the newly established foundation program or one of three programs for special needs students established under S.B. 856 (compensatory, special education, and LEP) and not be funded in future state budgets. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.u |
Middle School |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that the department and Professional Standards in Teaching Education Board develop a certificate for middle school teachers. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0661e.rtf
Title: H.B. 661
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires county boards to provide full-day kindergarten for all kindergarten students by 2007-08 school year. Each district's comprehensive master plan must identify the strategies that will be used in that county to ensure that all kindergarten students receive full-day kindergarten by the 2007-08 academic year. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 07/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows, if federal funds are sufficient, districts in addition to Baltimore and Prince George's County to apply to department for grants to participate in the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program. Extends pilot program through June 30, 2007. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1370t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1370
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Increases maximum of aggregate principal amount of bonds outstanding that Baltimore district may hold from $25 million to $75 million. Require Baltimore board and CEO to ensure increased community involvement and outreach in support of the city's public schools. Deletes 1997 section requiring adoption and implementation of transition plan. Replaces with requirement that by June 1, 2002, Baltimore district CEO submit 5-year comprehensive master plan to board for review and approval by August 30, 2002 and subsequent review and approval by state board and superintendent. Requires CEO or designee to consult with specified others, including teachers, students and parents during the development of the master plan. Requires master plan to be updated and submitted for state board and superintendent review and approval on annual basis. Establishes areas which master plan must address. Requires department and Baltimore school system to jointly develop a principal development initiative pairing distinguished principals from outside the system and action support teams with principals in training in Baltimore. Addresses minimum appropriations to Baltimore Public School System. Requires consultant to evaluate the Baltimore City-State Partnership and the reform initiatives of the Baltimore City Public School System by December 1, 2006, and the board of commissioners and the state board to report to the general assembly on a review of the evaluation by January 15, 2007. Requires chief officers of Baltimore Public Schools to meet on at least a quarterly basis with the Special Master assigned to the case, after 6 of which meetings the CEO and the state superintendent may adjust the communication schedule. Requires state and Baltimore agencies to communicate on at least a quarterly basis on facilities planning in the Baltimore Public Schools, including on capital improvement program issues. Requires transfer of certain real property assets from Baltimore City Public School System to Baltimore City Board of Commissioners. Through June 30, 2009, permits Board of Public Works to approve state funding for capital improvements to Baltimore public school buildings deeded to Baltimore board or mayor and city council of Baltimore. Requires city to continue cooperation with school system to eliminate environmental hazards in the school system. Permits funds appropriated for the Baltimore City-State Partnership to be used to support the principal development initiative. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0853e.rtf
Title: H.B. 853
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes appointed New Prince George's County Board of Education and requirements for membership. Provides for compensation of board members. Allows for nonvoting student member. Establishes Chief Executive Officer as executive officer, secretary, and treasurer of county board. Establishes duties of CEO of the board in Prince George's County. Creates selection process for superintendent for Prince George's County. Establishes office, duties and selection process of chief academic officer, chief financial officer and chief accountability officer in Prince George's County. Establishes Parent and Community Advisory Board in Prince George's County; requires regular board and CEO consultation with the Parent and Community Advisory Board. Requires Prince George's County CEO to develop comprehensive master plan, for the board to review, approve, and begin implementation of by November 1, 2002. Requires state board and state superintendent to review and approve master plan. Establishes numerous required areas the master plan must address, including curriculum, professional development, personnel evaluation, addressing the needs of at-risk students and closing the achievement gap. Requires CEO and board to publish annual report addressing specified areas. Allows Prince George's County board or designated committee to hear appeal of CEO's decision on areas affecting specific student. Requires annual allocation of state and Prince George's County government funds through FY07 for public school construction projects. Makes project release for bidding contingent upon approval by the Interagency Committee on School Construction. Changes borders of Prince George's County. Establishes system for election, removal and compensation of Prince George's County board members, 5 representing local areas and 4 at large. Allows for voting student member; student member prohibited from voting on specified administrative and personnel issues. Terms of appointed New Prince George's County board members to expire December 3, 2006. Requires chief academic officer of Prince George's County to devise plan for teacher participation in development of curriculum, instruction, and professional development. Provides for supplementary annual state funding for Prince George's County in FYs 04-07 contingent upon and to the degree of achievement of benchmarks and outcomes in the master plan approved by the state superintendent and state board. Requires New Prince George's County Board to locate interim CEO by August 15, 2002 and permanent CEO by January 1, 2003. Requires consultant to perform comprehensive review of Prince George's County system and new board by June 1, 2006, including review of educational and management reforms made by new board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0949e.rtf
Title: H.B. 949
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Principal Training Pilot Program; requires that the State Board of Education award incentive funding under the program to provide school principals with instruction and training in specified and optional areas; establishes eligibility requirements for applicants. Limits participation to 100 principals; requires every county superintendent to choose three principals to participate; requires state superintendent to select remaining 28 principals, giving highest priority to principals in local reconstitution schools. Requires state board to report on specified aspects of program to various legislative committees on or before June 30, 2004. Pilot program to end June 30, 2005. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0007e.rtf
Title: H.B. 7
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires each county board to develop and implement comprehensive master plan that states the goals and strategies to be used to raise student achievement and meet state and local performance standards in each segment of the student population. Plans must be submitted to the department by October 1, 2003 and must include goals and strategies for specified objectives, including for special education, limited-English proficient, prekindergarten, kindergarten, gifted and talented, low-performing, and career- and technology students. State superintendent must review each plan and may require revisions to be made. Permits state board to withhold state funds from any board whose school system fails to make adequate yearly progress towards improving student achievement and meeting state performance standards for each segment of student population or fails to create plan that meets the specified state requirements or take action required by state superintendent. Requires state superintendent to review academic intervention programs and behavior modification programs to identify best practices. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the department to distribute grants in qualified distressed counties for the administration of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test to 10th-graders in FY03 and 04, and to each county in FY05 and each subsequent fiscal year. Subject to availability of state budget funds, grants are to allow for test administration to all 10th-graders in the county. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0661e.rtf
Title: H.B. 661
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes sales and use tax on telecommunications service in Prince George's County. Net proceeds from the revenue must be used only as supplemental funds for the operation of the Prince George's County School System. The board must consider using such funds for the provision of a program for at-risk or low-performing students in grades 6-12 that meets specified criteria; and a Spanish language immersion program for at least 450 pupils in grades K-5. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0949e.rtf
Title: H.B. 949
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
States the intent of the general assembly that state agencies provide equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency; requires documents to be translated into any language spoken by 3% of any limited English proficient population within the geographic service area; includes vital documents or informational materials, notices, and complaint forms offered by state deparments, agencies, and programs. Requires the Maryland State Department of Education to be in full compliance by July 1, 2005. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0265e.rtf
Title: S.B. 265
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that county board financial audit results be reported to state superintendent, county fiscal authority, and specified house and senate committees. Requries Management Oversight Panel to monitor implementation of audits' recommendations and coordination office to support Management Oversight Panel until the state superintendent determines that all the audits' recommendations have been addressed. Modifies the basic current expense formula to create a new foundation program for state education funding; creates a compensatory education funding program; creates a funding program for students with limited English; creates a special education funding program; establishes guaranteed tax base program. Extends funding for public school construction projects in Prince George's County and Baltimore City from 2003 to 2004. Establishes Task Force to Study Public School Facilities; requires task force to study specified issues in the realms of school construction. Terminates task force on December 31, 2002. Provides unrestricted grants of specified amounts in FY 03 to county boards. Requires Prince George's County Board to develop and submit comprehensive master plan and Superintendent to approve master plan before it receives its unrestricted grant. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Civic Education |
Joint Resolution No. 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges local boards in Maryland to introduce instruction to encourage patriotism by including curriculum on or before Veterans' Day or Memorial Day designed to instill a sense of patriotism and an awareness of the great sacrifices made by veterans of the United States armed forces and Maryland National Guard to preserve and promote liberty and democratic values worldwide.
Title: H.J.R. 9
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges the boards of education in the state to introduce instruction to instill patriotism by developing and instituting curriculum on or before Veterans Day and Memorial Day regarding the sacrifices made by veterans in serving our country to defend and promote liberty and democratic values worldwide.
Title: S.J.R. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Vetoed 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes new allocation method for district grants under the Aging Schools Program; provides specified additional funds yearly to county boards. Establishes Task Force to Study Public School Facilities, establishes duties and membership. Requires task force to report to the governor and general assembly by December 31, 2002, at which time task force is dissolved. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0937e.rtf http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/veto_letters/hb0937.htm
Title: H.B. 937
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Commission on State's Fiscal Structure; requires the Commission to review and evaluate the State's budget and tax structure; requires the Commission to make recommendations on changes to the State budget process and the State tax structure; relates to funding for education, transportation, and health care; provides for a study of income, sales, property, excise, and business taxes.
Title: H.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that a question be placed on the ballot in Dorchester County at the November general election of 2002 to determine voters' attitudes towards potentially changing the method of selecting members of the Dorchester County board from governor-appointed to locally-elected. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0700t.rtf
Title: S.B. 700
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Renames State Coordinating Countil for Residential Placement of Handicapped Children as State Coordinating Council for Children. Adds Maryland School-Based Health Care Center Policy Advisory Council; State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect; and State Commission on Infant Mortality Prevention to units in Office for Children, Youth and Families in Executive Department. Establishes as "Community Partnership Agreements" agreements between the state and local management boards relating to the provision of services for children, youth and families. Adds to purposes of Subcabinet Fund as it relates to services to handicapped children. Requires the Special Secretary to adopt regulations about local management boards. Modifies membership and duties of local coordinating councils. Provides out-of-state placement for children who have behavioral, educational, developmental, or mental needs that can't be met through state agencies; codifies the State School-Based Health Center Policy Advisory Council. Requires Special Secretary for Children, Youth, and Families to appoint a Committee to develop a Subcabinet plan to address provision of services to intensive-needs children. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1386t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1386
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates an Asthma Control Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requires the Secretary to adopt regulations to implement the Program; provides for the funding of the Program; provides training for school personnel or other appropriate personnel, on asthma education in conjunction with the Department of Education and Local Health Departments. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0420t.rtf
Title: H.B. 420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Codifies the School-Based Health Center Policy Advisory Council; provides for membership, chairman, purpose, duties; provides for creation within the Office for Children, Youth, and Families. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1163t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows honorably discharged veterans of the Korean Conflict to obtain a high school diploma by applying to the county board where the individual resides or where the school the individual withdrew from was located. Veteran must have left a state board-accredited full-time public or private school during the individual's senior year in high school to enlist in the armed forces during the Korean Conflict. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0218t.rtf
Title: H.B. 218
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Includes computer-based technology, CD-ROM discs and web-based resources and courses in the definition of "technology" under this section. Adds Web-based distance-learning resources to list of technology state support can help provide. Includes in purpose of subtitle the provision of equal opportunities and expanded educational choices for all Maryland public school students, as well as expanded professional development opportunities for educators. Permits state superintendent to develop standards for school staff for the offering of courses or services online or through other technologies; to review courses and courseware for quality and alignment with state content standards and other standards; and to track and issue reports on courses or services used by school staff. Adds web-based products, resources and courses for classroom use to list of products for which public and private consortia may receive grants to develop. In awarding grants, requires priority to be given programs developed for relevance to state content standards and other appropriate standards. Adds distance-learning activities to list of learning opportunities to be provided through Maryland Technology Academy. Requires department to provide virtual learning opportunities that meet specified standards. Requires department, with state board and superintendent approval; to develop and procure online courses; to develop standards for teachers and other school employees for the offering of courses or services online or through other technology; and to review courses and courseware for quality and alignment with state standards. Establishes Maryland virtual learning opportunities fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1197t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1197
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the department to provide a statewide community-based interagency system of comprehensive early intervention services to children birth to age 2 and their families. Funds program at $4,044 per year starting in FY04, with inflationatory increases each following year. Requires study of program effectiveness to be completed by December 15, 2005. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0419e.rtf
Title: S.B. 419
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Expands eligibility for Maryland Teacher Scholarship to part-time undergraduate students; requires teaching assistants who apply to have been employed as such in Maryland for at least two years and to be full-time or part-time undergraduate or graduate students. Designates that annual scholarship awards are to be $2,000 for a full-time undergraduate student or $1,000 for a part-time graduate student enrolled at a 2-year institution, and $2,500 for a part-time undergraduate or graduate student at a 4-year institution. Establishes continuing eligibility requirements. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1172e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1172
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows a recipient of specified state scholarships and grants to hold specified other state scholarships and grants as long as the sum of all scholarships does not exceed the equivalent annual expenses of a full-time resident undergraduate at a state university with the highest annual expenses; requires a student who holds multiple state scholarships and grants that have a service obligation requirement to fulfill the terms of each of the service obligations but not concurrently. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0399t.rtf
Title: H.B. 399
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Clarifies the definition of a foster care recipient who may be eligible for waiver of certain tuition fees, to limit eligibility to individuals who meet both qualifications: 1) placed in a foster care home by the Department of Human Resources and 2) resided in a foster care home at the time the individual graduated from high school or successfully completed a General Equivalency Development Examination. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0827t.rtf
Title: H.B. 827
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Expands the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to include children and surviving spouses of victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Limits the amount of scholarship that may be awarded to a child or spouse of a victim of September 11 terrorist attacks. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0300e.rtf
Title: H.B. 300
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires students applying for a Maryland Science and Technology Scholarship, Maryland Teacher Scholarship, or a Maryland HOPE Scholarship to have a minimum overall 3.0 GPA at the end of the first semester of the senior year of high school. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0316t.rtf
Title: H.B. 316
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Vetoed 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Prohibits the Higher Education Investment Board from allowing the same purchaser or contributor to purchase multiple prepaid tuition contracts or open multiple investment accounts for a single beneficiary in the same year; clarifies the application of income tax provisions relating to the college savings plans. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0437t.rtf
Title: H.B. 437
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Vetoed 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Makes substantial changes to the Maryland prepaid tuition program. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0383e.rtf http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/veto_letters/sb0383.htm
Title: S.B. 383
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Postsecondary Participation--Access |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the department to distribute a grant in specified amounts to distressed counties in FY 03 and 04 and to all counties in FY05 and subsequent years for the administration of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test to 10th-graders. Funding should be sufficient to administer PSAT to all 10th graders in the county. Replaces "State Scholarship Administration" with "Office of Student Financial Assistance." Requires governor to annually fund need-based scholarship programs at a minimum of 80% of the funds allocated the previous year. States that 9th- or 10th-grader who applies and qualifies for a Guaranteed Access Grant Award on the basis of financial need is prequalified for a guaranteed access award by agreeing in writing to meet certain criteria as a secondary and postsecondary student, including participating in the College Readiness Outreach Program until high school graduation; establishes the College Readiness Outreach Program for 9th- and 10th-grade students; allows, if state funds are available, students to receive Educational Excellence Awards who meet requirements but have missed March 1 deadline. Designates specified responsibilities in Educational Excellence Awards to the Maryland Higher Education Commission; establishes need-based Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program for full- and part-time students professional students in specified fields studying at specified universities; establishes K-16 Leadership Council. Requires that department develop, in conjunction with state professional standards board, certificate for middle school teachers. Establishes that College Readiness Outreach Program be implemented over 5-year period beginning in FY04, and that the program be implemented in its first year for up to 1,000 students in Allegany, Prince George's, and Wicomico counties and Baltimore City. Requires that College Readiness Outreach Program be evaluated by commission, in consulation with department, and reported on to general assembly by July 1, 2007. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0453e.rtf
Title: S.B. 453
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Department of General Services to purchase materials, supplies and equipment on behalf of specified private elementary and secondary schools; prohibits the Departments of General Services from purchasing religious materials on behalf of a private elementary of secondary school or nonpublic institutions of higher education. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0779t.rtf
Title: H.B. 779
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed by governor 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that if additional federal funding becomes available for the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program, counties other than Baltimore County and Prince George's County are eligible to apply to the department for grants. Extends pilot program through Juned 30, 2007.
Title: H.B. 1370
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits Baltimore City school police officer to carrying a firearm on property of assigned school any time before or after regular school hours on school days or on days in which school is not in session. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0529e.rtf
Title: H.B. 529
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Repeals a prohibition against the possession of portable pagers on public school property in Baltimore County. Specifies that pagers are now prohibited in Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties. Requires the Baltimore board to work with the state department of education to develop a policy regarding use of cell phones and pagers on school grounds during school hours.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1010e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines terms used in student behavior intervention, such as "behavior intervention plan," "exclusionary time out," "functional behavior assessment," "mechanical restraint," "physical restraint," "seclusion." Deletes formerly established procedures for behavior intervention. Requires the state superintendent to create a task force to propose specified regulations regarding standards for student behavior intervention practices; requires the department to submit proposed regulations to the state board on or before December 31, 2002. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0569t.rtf
Title: H.B. 569
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Vetoed 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Alters the distribution of uninsured motorist penalty fees to provide for a distribution to the Vehicle Theft Prevention Fund providing for the distribution of uninsured motorist penalty fees to the School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/veto_letters/sb0625.htm
Title: S.B. 625
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines "computer-based technology" as computer hardware or software used by teachers and students in the delivery of an instructional program. Requires state superintendent and secretary of business and economic development to ensure that specifications in all grants and procurement contracts for technology-based instructional products require equivalent access for students with disabilities, including blindness. Starting in FY05, state or local invitations for bids, RFPs, procurement contracts, grants, or modifications to these must give notice of the equivalent access requirement whenever funds are to develop or acquire technology-based instructional products. These equivalent access standards are also to be included in guidelines for design specifications for and selection of technology-based instructional products. The state or local district must select the available product that best meets the specifications and has the greatest functionality for equivalent access for students with disabilities, including blindness. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0226e.rtf
Title: S.B. 226
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Defines "wraparound services." States that child in need of special education may be placed in appropriate nonpublic educational setting if state or local agency can document that child cannot attend a public school in the local system due to home circumstances or medical necessity. Requires that subject to availability of state funding, state must pay cost of services for child who qualifies for nonpublic placement and who requires wraparound services to receive special education. Requires that if local management board funds the placement of a child in a school outside the county or state of child's residence without consulting the local school system, local management board must certify and pay the cost of the student's daily or other reasonable transportation to school. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1221t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1221
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Alters the matters which may be negotiated by a public school employer or its designated representatives and certain employee organizations; prohibits a public school employer from negotiating certain matters; providing that certain matters may not be raised in an action to resolve an impasse; redefines public school employer to eliminate certain exceptions; repealing certain exceptions relating to noncertificated employees. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0233t.rtf
Title: S.B. 233
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to distribute need- and performance-based grants for adult education. Adult education and -literacy grant funds under this program may be used for GED instruction, the Maryland Adult External High School Program, ESL, family literacy and basic skills and literacy instruction. Funding is as provided in state budget. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0737t.rtf
Title: S.B. 737
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Repeals an obsolete provision concerning the date by which the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board shall conduct educational programs for public bodies; alters the date by which the Board shall submit an annual report; repeals the requirement that the annual report include a description of the impact on State and local governments of expansion of the application of the Open Meetings Act to local public bodies. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0270t.rtf
Title: H.B. 270
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Alters term limit on consecutive terms of a member of Calvert County Board of Education; alters the compensation received by the president of the Board and other members; provides that the Act does not apply to salary or compensation of incumbent members of the Board; alters the starting date of student members. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0267t.rtf
Title: H.B. 267
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that a member elected to the Carroll County Board of Education begin the member's term on the first Monday in December immediately following the member's election. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1400e.rtf
Title: H.B. 1400
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Alters the compensation received by an elected member of the Montgomery County Board of Education; alters the additional compensation to which the President of the Board is entitled; provides health insurance and other fringe benefits to elected members of the Board; establishes a scholarship for the student member of the Board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0706t.rtf
Title: H.B. 706
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Redistricts the Board of Education districts of Montgomery County; alters compensation received by the president; does not apply to incumbent president. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0712t.rtf
Title: H.B. 712
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Child Care Quality Incentive Grant Program in the Department of Human Resources; authorizes the Department to award grants as an incentive for child care providers to improve the quality of care being provided to children; makes it a misdemeanor to make or cause specified false statements.
Title: H.B. 986
Source: LexisNexis |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Includes public postsecondary vocational-technical or trade schools and private postsecondary vocational-technical or trade schools that grant members a tuition waiver of at least 50 percent among institutions eligible to participate in the Maryland National Guard member tuition assistance program. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0899t.rtf
Title: H.B. 899
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a county board to participate in contracts for goods or commodities awarded by other public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations; authorizes the advertisement of bids for specified procurements; authorizes nonpublic schools to participate in specified contracts for goods or commodities; requires Department of Education to establish a process that allows access to information about contracts for goods or commodities held by public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0480t.rtf
Title: S.B. 480
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a county board to participate in contracts for goods or commodities awarded by other public agencies or intergovernmental purchasing organizations; authorizes the advertisement of bids for procurements; authorizes nonpublic schools to participate in contracts for goods or commodities. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0492t.rtf
Title: H.B. 492
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Repeals the termination date of the Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program; requires the Department of Education to evaluate the Program each year. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb1409t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1409
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires an operator of a school bus to obtain a special commercial driver's license endorsement from the Motor Vehicle Administration under certain circumstances; provides that the school bus endorsement is also an endorsement to operate a vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0322t.rtf
Title: H.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Board of Education or a county board of education to enter into a certain partnership with the county's circuit court judges to oversee the juvenile justice alternative education pilot program. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0304t.rtf
Title: S.B. 304
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Includes Prince George's County home and hospital teachers and Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) instructors in the definition of "public school employees." http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/hb/hb0644t.rtf
Title: H.B. 644
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
Accountability |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Alters the authorized uses of Schools for Success challenge grant funds and extends the termination date provisions relative to challenge grants for school improvement. The grants are distributed by the department for use in accountability of low-performing schools for school improvement based upon Schools for Success goals. The grants are to help implement research-based school improvement strategies that lead to sustained improvement in schools and student achievement. In addition, the grants should support systemic changes, including interagency activities, computer labs, salary incentive programs, staffing and total quality management.
Title: S.B. 64
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
States intent of the General Assembly that State agencies are authorized to provide services to those with limited English proficiency; defines terms; requires agencies to survey the need for services and the measures taken to provide said; requires Department of Human Resources to develop and distribute surveys and review information; requires DHR to make recommendations and develop budgets; requires the DHR and Department of Planning to prepare estimates; requires reports.
Title: S.B. 542
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes eligible parties to establish specified approved paid work-based learning programs under which arrangements are made between schools and employers to provide youths with specified structured employer-supervised learning; allows a credit against the State income tax for wages paid to each youth under an approved program.
Title: S.B. 613
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health--Child Abuse |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the disclosure of reports or records concerning child abuse or neglect to public school superintendents for specified purposes following a report of specified abuse committed by an independent contractor or an employee of an independent contractor who supervises or works directly with students.
Title: S.B. 810
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Increasing to $95,000 the maximum annual total family income for a recipient of a Maryland HOPE Scholarship or a HOPE Community College Transfer Scholarship. A similar bill in the Senate (S.B. 213) was vetoed by the governor.
Title: H.B. 329,
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
Requires Higher Education Commission and Department of Human Resources to coordinate efforts to encourage college student volunteers to mentor to Family Investment Program recipients; specifies when temporary cash assistance may not be paid; requires Secretary of Human Resources to create a seperate program for those on cash assistance; repeals a requirement for Secretary to establish a representative payee or voucher program for minors; provides for job skills enhancements.
Title: S.B. 541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
Requires a public higher education institution to waive tuition for specified persons who attend the institution; repeals a provision authorizing a governing board of an institution of higher education to develop a policy for the waiver of tuition for specified persons.
Title: H.B. 336
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows an individual a State income tax credit for expenses paid for qualified tuition and related expenses for the individual or the individual's spouse or dependents; allows an individual who becomes a resident of the State and commences employment in designated occupations to claim a credit against the State income tax.
Title: S.B. 455
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Vetoed 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Creates a mandatory gun safety education program in public schools in the State; requires the State Department of Education to establish guidelines for the program; requires each county board to develop a specified curriculum.
Title: S.B. 124
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Repeals a prohibition against the possession of portable pagers on public school property, except as the prohibition applies in Baltimore County, certain counties, and Baltimore City.
Title: H.B. 67
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to create in a county designated by the State Superintendent of Schools a juvenile justice alternative education pilot program for suspended, expelled and other students; authorizes the State Board of Education on a county board of education to enter a partnership with county circuit court judges to oversee the program; allows the Board to select a private agency to administer the program; requires certain students to attend.
Title: H.B. 825
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Creates the Summer Opportunity Pilot Program of the Department of Juvenile Justice in selected counties; creates purpose; creates nonlapsing fund to finance the program; creates a funding mechanism and procedures for holding moneys; requires a county board of education to review a proposal and forward a final proposal to the Department for approval; requires Department and the State Board of Education to review a final proposal of a county board; provides for curriculum.
Title: H.B. 892
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Prohibits the Maryland Higher Education Commission and certain persons, organizations or community colleges from commercial disclosures of information obtained from the inspection of records of public school pupils; requires the custodian of records to provide a notice under a certain circumstance.
Title: H.B. 823
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a local superintendent with information on a child who has been arrested for certain offenses to provide said information to the local superintendent of a school system in the event of a transfer in certain cases; requires a local superintendent who provides information on a child arrested for certain offenses to another local school superintendent to provide information regarding any educational programming and related services provided to the child.
Title: S.B. 713
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Waives the residency requirement for tuition purposes for public school teachers under certain circumstances at public senior higher education institutions and community collages; defines a term; establishes circumstances when a public school teacher is responsible for in-State tuition.
Title: H.B. 401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Increases to 1,000 the maximum number of teachers eligible to participate in the State and Local Aid Program for Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Title: S.B. 129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes a task force to study adult education services, including basic skills instruction, English as a second language, General Equivalent Diploma instruction and family literacy instruction.
Title: S.B. 399; H.B. 775
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Changes the Maryland Job Training Partnership Act to the Maryland Workforce Investment Act; repeals provisions concerning the Governor's plan concerning job training and placement programs for employment; makes technical changes to reflect changes made to federal law; repeals provisions concerning classroom training; alters definitions; defines terms; provides for accurate codification of the Act's provisions; makes technical and stylistic changes; provides a delayed effective date
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the creation of a State Debt to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for the allocation to the eligible school system under the Aging School Program for the repair, renovation, and capital improvements of qualified zoned academies.
Title: S.B. 288
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed by Governor 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Increasing to $875,000,000, the bonding authority for the University System of Maryland; approving certain projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of certain academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; and approving the issuance of bonds by the University System of Maryland for financing the projects.
Title: H.B. 1263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides that members to the Worchester County Board of Education shall be elected; establishes procedure for election of members to the Worcester County Board of Education; provides for the termination of incumbent appointed members holding office on a specified date under specified circumstances; establishes a term of office for elected members; provides for public high school student nonvoting members; provides for the compensation of members and other related matters.
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes voting student member to be appointed to serve on the Baltimore Board. Prohibits student member from voting on issues relating to personnel; capital and operating budgets; school closings, repopenings, and boundaries; collective bargaining decisions; student disciplinary matters; and certain appeals to the board. Prohibits student member from attending executive or special sessions of the board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2001rs/bills/hb/hb0899t.rtf
Title: H.B. 899
Source: mlis.state.md.us |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Alters the state school library funds grant program of the School Accountability Funding and Excellence Program in order to make middle schools and high schools eligible for grants under the program.
Title: H.B. 434
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to higher education and part-time grant programs; pertains to dual enrollment students; includes students who are dually enrolled in a secondary school in the state and an institution of higher education in the State in the part-time student grant program; requires certain institutions of higher education to establish criteria for awarding a part-time student grant or waiver to dually enrolled students; alters a definition.
Title: H.B. 1127
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance, retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed as principals and supervisors of principals; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency; clarifies that retirees must meet performance requirements for each year of their employment prior to retirement; provides for the act's termination.
Title: H.B. 442, S.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Expands the Maryland Teacher Scholarship program to include full-time or part-time graduate students in programs leading to Maryland professional teachers' certificates.
Title: H.B. 299, S.B. 206
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Requires the State Scholarship Administration to offer yearly Maryland Science and Technology Scholarships to students who have been accepted into academic programs under certain circumstances; requires the Administration to offer scholarships to certain students currently enrolled in specified undergraduate programs in certain cases; alters eligibility for the scholarship by requiring a recipient to have completed secondary school within the last 5 years.
Title: S.B. 357
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Establishes that money appropriated by the State for student financial assistance that is not used in that fiscal year may not revert to the State Treasury and may be used only for specified purposes; prohibits the use of certain money for administrative expenses; clarifies language.
Title: H.B. 1004
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Modifies the term "institution of higher education" under the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority Act (MHHEFA) to include specified community colleges; authorizes the boards of trustees of community colleges to finance or refinance the costs of specified projects by entering into agreements with MHHEFA.
Title: S.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Establishing the Maryland Educational Opportunity Summer Pilot Program; authorizing a county board of education to develop a proposal for educational curriculum and activities during the summer; requiring the State Board of Education to review a proposal and approve or disapprove the proposal based on specified priorities; requiring the State Board to distribute funds to cover the costs of implementing and operating the Pilot Program; applying the Act to Baltimore County and Prince George's County; etc.
Title: H.B. 53
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a school resource officer to deny access to buildings or grounds of school institutions; authorizes a school resource officer to demand identification and evidence of qualification of persons on premises of school institutions.
Title: S.B. 469
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the use of a campus security force or building guards in addition to a campus police force at a constituent institution of the University of Maryland.
Title: H.B. 1409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Vetoed 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires county board of education to draft specifications encouraging maximum competition in public school procurement contracts when advertising is required; prohibits specifications favoring a single prospective bidder or offerer.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Alters the conditions under which a county board is not required to reimburse a parent or guardian for certain tuition or related costs for enrollment of a student with a disability in a nonpublic school; requires the parent of a child with a disability to give certain notice under certain circumstances; authorizes a hearing officer or court to require reimbursement in certain cases.
Title: H.B. 248
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement System; alters the method of calculating specified members' average final compensation; defines break in service; establishes a method of calculating the average final compensation of specified part-time employees.
Title: S.B. 389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
Postsec. |
Expands collective bargaining to specified employees of certain institutions of higher education; requires those institutions to designate bargaining representatives; identifies bargaining units in those institutions.
Title: S.B. 207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes a pilot program to use solar energy in new school construction projects in the State; requires a county board of education to include the use of solar energy for at least 20% of the energy or demand needs of a public school construction project; requires a county board to submit a grant application to the Department of Education; requires the Department to arrange financing for the project.
Title: S.B. 711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Vetoed 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Requires students living in on-campus student housing to receive a vaccination for menigococcal disease or sign a specified waiver; provides that the institutions of higher education are not required to provide or pay for the vaccinations.
Title: S.B. 653
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed in specified personnel positions; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency on personnel who qualify for the exemption. Allows retired school principals to be re-employed as principals under certain conditions without losing retirement benefits.
Title: S.B. 220
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
P-3 |
Vetoed 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Care and Education Centers and Education Enhancement Grant Program for the development of collaborative approaches to delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; defines terms; designates the Department of Education as the agency supervising the grant program; requires the Department to distribute the funds to local systems on a competitive basis; limits local school use of funds.
Title: S.B. 793
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Judith P. Hoyer Blue Ribbon Commission on the Financing of Early Child Care and Education; provides for the purpose, duties, and membership of the Commission; provides for the terms and compensation of members; provides for the appointment of members; requires the Commission to meet at specified times and issue reports on or before specified dates; provides for the staffing of the Commission.
Title: S.B. 869
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Changes the name of the Maryland Higher Education Investment Program to the Maryland Prepaid College Trust; authorizes the Maryland Higher Education Investment Board to provide for rebates to owners of prepaid contracts; requires the Board to allow the transfer of funds from state tuition programs to other state tuition programs; requires the Governor to include funds for the Maryland Prepaid College Trust in the annual budget.
Title: H.B. 11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Alters the formula that determines the out-of-state fee and the out-of-county or out-of-region fee charges to nonresident students who attend specified community colleges; provides for a specified waiver of specified fees.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Defines "Academic Intervention Programs" as those taking place before or after school, or on weekends, during holidays, vacations or summer break. Provides grants to county boards for programs meeting certain criteria. Requires evaluation of the status and success on an individual program and statewide basis.
Title: S.B. 810
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes a grant program under which law enforcement agencies may apply for funds for efforts relating to enforcement of the law prohibiting passing stopped school vehicles; establishes a School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund; provides for the administration, composition, and use of the Fund; prescribes a revenue source for the Fund; specifies certain budgetary procedures.
Title: H.B. 104
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Makes certain adjustments to the formula for transportation grants to county boards of education; adjusts the time period for calculating increases in the grant amounts.
Title: S.B. 106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the state to add 1 percent to salaries for teachers in any public school system that increases teachers pay by 4 percent and provide additional funds for other educational purposes. (Under this Teacher Salaries Challenge Program, teachers would receive a 10 percent pay raise by the fall of 2001.)
Title: S.B. 810
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Declares the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Housing and Community Development develop a program to promote homeownership opportunities for teachers in consultation with the State Board of Education and local boards of education; provides for the effective date of this Act.
Title: S.B. 206
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Repeals a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Law to the construction of an elementary or secondary school.
Title: S.B. 202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Designates the week of August 11, 2000, through August 17, 2000, as a tax-free week during which various sales and use tax exemptions will apply; defines the term accessory items; provides for exemptions from the sales and use tax for various clothing and accessory items during the back-to-school tax-free shopping week.
Title: H.B. 170, S.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to require children entering a school to have been administered a blood test screening for lead poisoning at a specified time; requires public schools in Baltimore City to report on blood test screenings administered; requires physicians to administer blood test screenings for lead poisoning when treating children under the age of 5 years in a hospital or related institutions.
Title: H.B. 1221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Requires certain students enrolled in institutions of higher education to receive a certain vaccination or sign a certain waiver; requires parent or guardian of the student to sign waiver if the student is a minor; requires Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in cooperation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to adopt regulations; states that certain institutions shall not be required to pay for vaccinations for meningococcal disease.
Title: H.B. 227
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates a Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students. Requires the task force to report its interim findings and recommendations to the governor and general assembly by January 1, 2001 and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the same by December 1, 2001.
http://mlis.state.md.us/PDF-Documents/2000rs/fnotes/bil_0001/hb1091.PDF
Title: H.B. 1091
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Care and Education Program, a grant program for early child care and education centers and education enhancement for the development of collaborative approaches for the delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; designates the Maryland Department of Education as the agency supervising the grant program.
Title: H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Education to distribute grants to organizations that promote literacy at an early age during --- child health visits to a pediatrician; requires an organization that is awarded a grant to use the grant to purchase books and train health care providers; requires the Governor to include funding for the grants in the State budget; requires the State Board to adopt regulations to implement the Act.
Title: H.B. 1172, S.B. 750
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Vetoed 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Establishes that money appropriated by the State for student financial assistance that is not used in that fiscal year, unless excepted by other provisions of law, may not revert to the State treasury; prohibits the use of retained student financial assistance funds for administrative expenses.
Title: H.B. 1231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Vetoed 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Changes the name of the Maryland Higher Education Investment Program to the Maryland Prepaid College Trust; authorizes the Maryland Higher Education Investment Board to provide for certain rebates to owners of prepaid contracts; requires the Board to allow the transfer of funds from certain tuition state programs to other state tuition programs; requires the Governor to include a certain amount for the Maryland Prepaid College Trust in the annual budget.
Title: S.B. 140
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Revises the Maryland Charter for Higher Education to include regional higher education centers; requires the Maryland Higher Education Commission to review, negotiate, and approve the mission statements developed by regional higher education centers; establishes the purposes and responsibilities of regional higher education centers; establishes the roles and responsibilities of the Commission in coordinating regional higher education centers.
Title: S.B. 603
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Community College Transfer Scholarship Program and provides for the award of scholarships under the Program; establishes qualifications and requirements for the receipt and retention of an award under the Program; requires the State Scholarship Administration to send a list of scholarship recipients to members of the General Assembly; provides for the funding of the scholarship program; requires repayment upon graduation.
Title: H.B. 476
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Provides that certain unrestricted higher education grants shall be distributed to certain small community colleges in a certain fiscal year; providing that the grant amounts shall increase in subsequent fiscal years depending on the increase in the amount of certain funding to certain public institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 311
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Vetoed 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises the State funding formula for community colleges by establishing a supplemental component, beginning in fiscal year 2003, that is equal to 1.75% of the total State operating fund; provides for the division and distribution of the supplemental component.
Title: S.B. 89
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes an Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; provides for the membership, chairman, and staff of the advisory council; requires the advisory council to study and take specified actions regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; requires the Governor and state agencies to implement the recommendations of the task force to study the uses of methylphenidate and other drugs on school children.
Title: S.B. 742
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes that specified facilities for delinquent or detained youth are established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice and are considered places of confinement for diagnosis, care, training, education, and rehabilitation of children who need these services.
Title: S.B. 39
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Commission on Funding and Services for Gifted and Talented Student Education; provides that the commission shall review the status of funding and services for gifted and talented students in major academic areas, the arts and leadership and make recommendations.
Title: H.B. 572
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Extends the implementation date for the applicability of the standards enacted for data collection forms for schools, school systems, and the State Department of Education.
Title: S.B. 900
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Prohibits public institutions of higher education, public schools, or the State from printing or having printed a Social Security number on any type of identification card; prohibits the Motor Vehicle Administration from using, including or encoding a Social Security number on an individual's driver's license.
Title: H.B. 37
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program; requires the State Board of Education to make specified grants to county boards of education under certain circumstances; requires county boards of education under certain circumstances to submit certain applications to the Department of Budget and Management and the State Superintendent of Schools by a certain date.
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Private Giving |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Public Education Partnership Fund; describes Fund's purposes; authorizes Fund to receive grants and private contributions; authorizes State Board of Education to use the Fund; requires the Treasurer to invest money from the Fund for the use of the Fund and to credit certain earnings to the Fund; specifies procedures for expenditures from the Fund; makes the Fund continuous and nonlapsing; states that Fund is subject to audit by the Legislative Auditor.
Title: S.B. 107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Allows out-of-state high school graduates to be eligible for a Guaranteed Access Grant; allows recipients of State scholarships to also hold other State scholarships; makes winners of a Maryland HOPE scholarship or a Maryland Teacher Scholarship awarded during a certain period eligibile for student assistance; requires residency for scholarships for career or volunteer firefighter or EMT member; repeals service obligation for recipients of grants for physical or occupational therapist training.
Title: H.B. 231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Vetoed 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes President's Day as a public school holiday in the State.
Title: H.B. 415, SB 648
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Extends the time through which a child is eligible for special education and related services to the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age; requires special education and related services regulations of the State Board of Education to cover a child through the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age.
Title: H.B. 552
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |