2002 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 661

CHAPTER NUMBER: 429 File Code: Education - Miscellaneous Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 453
Sponsored By:
Delegate Rawlings (Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students) and Delegates Cryor, Kopp, Rudolph, Taylor, McIntosh, Arnick, Busch, Conway, Dewberry, Doory, Harrison, Hixson, Howard, Hurson, Menes, Montague, Owings, Rosenberg, Vallario, and Wood
Entitled:
College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students Act of 2002

Synopsis:

Requiring the State Department of Education to distribute grants in specified amounts to specified counties for the administration of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test; changing the name of the State Scholarship Administration to the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher Education Commission; providing for students to qualify in grades 9 and 10 for a Guaranteed Access Grant; establishing the College Readiness Outreach Program in the Commission and the Department of Education; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/4
First Reading Ways and Means & Appropriations
2/13
Hearing 3/6 at 11:00 a.m.
3/23
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/24
Third Reading Passed (139-0)
4/6
House Concur - Senate Amendments
Third Reading Passed (124-0)
Passed Enrolled
5/6
Signed by the Governor Chapter 429
Senate Action
3/26
First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs & Budget and Taxation
4/5
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
4/3
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
4/4
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
Sponsored by:
Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
Delegate John S. Arnick, District 7
Delegate Michael E. Busch, District 30
College Readiness for Disadvan. & Capable Students
Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
Delegate Jean B. Cryor, District 15
Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
Delegate John A. Hurson, District 18
Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 42
Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
Delegate Joseph F. Vallario, Jr., District 27A
Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES -see also- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
ALLEGANY COUNTY
APPROPRIATIONS
AUDITORS AND AUDITS
BALTIMORE CITY
COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION -see also- DRIVER ED; HIGHER ED; SPECIAL ED; etc
EXAMINATIONS
GRANTS
HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION
NAMES -see also- PROPER NAMES
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
REPORTS
RULES AND REGULATIONS
SALARIES -see also- OVERTIME
SCHOLARSHIPS
STATE AID
STUDENTS
TEACHERS
WICOMICO COUNTY
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Education
( 7-203.1 , 18-101 , 18-107 , 18-201 , 18-202 , 18-203 , 18-204 , 18-303 , 18-303 , 18-303.1 , 18-304 , 18-305 , 18-306 , 18-307 , 18-2601 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
House
Number: 575966/1 (PDF)     Offered on: March 23, 2002   at: 11:56 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Senate
Number: 764038/2 (PDF)     Offered on: April 5, 2002   at: 12:48 p.m.     Status: Adopted
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
March 24, 2002: Third Reading Passed (139-0)
April 6, 2002: Third Reading Passed (124-0)
Senate
April 4, 2002: Third Reading Passed (47-0)