2002 Regular Session

SENATE BILL 186

File Code: Primary and Secondary Education Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 701
Sponsored By:
Senators Kelley, Blount, Conway, Della, Hooper, Jacobs, Lawlah, Mitchell, Mooney, Neall, Sfikas, Stoltzfus, and Van Hollen
Entitled:
Education - Children in Out-of-County Living Arrangements - Informal Kinship Care

Synopsis:

Requiring a superintendent of schools of a county to allow a child to attend a public school in a county other than where the child was previously domiciled in Maryland with the child's parent or legal guardian if the child lives with a relative in the county due to a serious family hardship; requiring specified relatives of a child to file specified affidavits and specified supporting documentation under specified circumstances; establishing the contents and form of specified affidavits; etc.

History by Legislative Date

Senate Action
1/17
First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
1/23
Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
2/18
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
2/19
Favorable with Amendments
Committee Amendment Adopted
Special Order 2/20 (Senator Ruben) Adopted
2/20
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2/22
Third Reading Passed (40-0)
House Action
2/25
First Reading Ways and Means
3/20
Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
4/8
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
Sponsored by:
Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 47
Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
Senator Clarence M. Mitchell, IV, District 44
Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
Senator Robert R. Neall, District 33
Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
CHILD CUSTODY
COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; ANNULMENT; DIVORCE; etc
FORMS
FOSTER CARE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
STUDENTS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Education
( 4-122 , 7-101 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
Senate
Number: 024535/1 (PDF)     Offered on: February 19, 2002   at: 11:49 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
Senate
February 22, 2002: Third Reading Passed (40-0)