1999 Regular Session

SENATE BILL 682

CHAPTER NUMBER: 515 File Code: Higher Education Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1026
Sponsored By:
The President (Administration) and Senators Blount, Hoffman, Lawlah, Middleton, Neall, Ruben, Currie, DeGrange, Hogan, Kasemeyer, McFadden, Munson, Stoltzfus, and Van Hollen
Entitled:
Higher Education - University System of Maryland - Coordination, Governance, and Funding

Synopsis:

Revising the coordination, governance, and funding of the University System of Maryland; establishing that the University is a public corporation with specified management flexibility; clarifying the duties of the System; establishing a new program review and approval process for the institutions in the System; reestablishing the College Preparation Intervention Program and the Private Donation Incentive Program; altering the role of the Maryland Higher Education Commission in specified circumstances; etc.

History by Legislative Date

Senate Action
2/15
First Reading Senate Rules
Motion Rules Suspended Referred Budget and Taxation Economic and Environmental Affairs
(Senator Currie) Adopted
2/18
Hearing 3/1 at 3:30 p.m.
3/29

Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
3/30
Favorable with Amendments
Laid Over (Senator Madden) Adopted
3/31
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Special Order later today (Senator Roesser) Adopted
Floor Amendment (Senator Roesser) Rejected (18-27)
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
4/1
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
4/7
Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
Senate Requests House Recede
Conference Committee Appointed ...
Senators Hoffman, Blount, and Lawlah
4/11
Motion limit debate (Senator Blount) Rejected (31-16)
Special Order later (Senator Neall) Adopted
Conference Committee Report Withdrawn
Conference Committee Report Adopted (34-8)
Third Reading Passed (40-3)
Passed Enrolled
5/27
Signed by the Governor Chapter 515
House Action
3/30
First Reading Appropriations
4/5
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
4/2
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
Motion Rules Suspended 2rdgs same day (Delegate Hurson) Adopted (102-23)
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-2)
4/5
House Refuses to Recede
Conference Committee Appointed ...
Delegates Kopp, Rawlings, and Dewberry
4/11
Conference Committee Report Adopted
Third Reading Passed (137-1)
Sponsored by:
President of the Senate
Administration
Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
Senator Robert R. Neall, District 33
Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
AELR COMMITTEE
APPROPRIATIONS
BUDGETS -see also- CAPITAL BUDGETS
CAPITAL BUDGETS
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING -see also- ARB.; STRIKES; UNIONS
COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -see also- ENTERPRISE ZONES;SMALL BUS.
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
COMPUTERS
CONTRACTS -see also- LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS; PROCUREMENT
CORPORATIONS -see also- MERGERS; MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
ETHICS
GENERAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
GIFTS
GOVERNOR
HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.
HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION
PROCUREMENT
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES -see also- STADIUMS
PUBLIC WORKS, BOARD OF
REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
STATE AID
STATE EMPLOYEES -see also- PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
STUDENTS
SUNSET
TELECOMMUNICATIONS -see also- TELEPHONES
VETO
WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- LEAVE; O.T.; SALARIES.
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Education
( 10-101 , 10-209 , 10-209 , 11-105 , 11-105 , 11-105 , 11-206 , 11-206.1 , 11-302 , 11-303 , 11-701 , 11-702 , 11-703 , 11-704 , 11-705 , 12-102 , 12-104 , 12-105 , 12-106 , 12-109 , 12-109 , 12-112 , 12-113 , 13-203 , 13-205 , 13-207 , 17-104 , 17-301 , 17-302 , 17-303 , 17-304 , 17-305 , 17-306 )
State Finance and Procurement
( 3-401 , 3-703 , 3-704 , 4-402 , 4-406 , 4-410 , 11-203 , 12-107 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
Senate
Number: 023518/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 12, 1999   at: 11:00 p.m.     Status: Special Ordered
Number: 554220/2 (PDF)     Offered on: March 31, 1999   at: 10:17 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Number: 853012/1 (PDF)     Offered on: March 31, 1999   at: 11:28 a.m.     Status: Rejected
House
Number: 174951/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 6, 1999   at: 10:25 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Number: 294651/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 6, 1999   at: 10:28 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Number: 893611/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 12, 1999   at: 11:47 p.m.     Status: Adopted
Conference Committee Documents:
Report Number: 893611/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 12, 1999   at: 11:41 p.m.     Status: Adopted
Amendment Number: 393916/2 (PDF)     Offered on: April 12, 1999   at: 11:41 p.m.     Status: Adopted
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
March 31, 1999: Floor Amendment (Roesser) {853012/1 Rejected (18-27)
April 1, 1999: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
April 11, 1999: Motion limit debate (Blount) Rejected (31-16)
April 11, 1999: Conference Committee Report {893611/1 Adopted (34-8)
April 11, 1999: Third Reading Passed (40-3)
House
April 2, 1999: Motion Rules Suspended 2rdgs same day (Hurson) Adopted (102-23)
April 2, 1999: Third Reading Passed (133-2)
April 11, 1999: Third Reading Passed (137-1)