File Code: Primary and Secondary Education
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 285  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Pugh, Conway, Currie, Della, Forehand, Gladden, Klausmeier,
Madaleno, McFadden, Peters, and Stone
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Education - Truancy Rates - Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support
Programs and Behavior Modification Programs
 
Requiring a county board of education to require a school that has a
truancy rate that exceeds specified standards to implement a positive
behavioral interventions and support program or an alternative,
research-based, positive, and effective behavior modification program
in collaboration with the State Department of Education; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 1/16
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 1/23
 - Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/13
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 2/14
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/18
 - Third Reading Passed (46-1)
 - 3/31
 - Returned Passed
 
House Action
- 2/19
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 3/26
 - Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/2
 - Favorable Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/27
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Passed (141-0)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/13
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 367
 
Sponsored by:
- Senator Catherine E. Pugh, District 40
 - Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
 - Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
 - Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 46
 - Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
 - Senator Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
 - Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
 - Senator Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
 - Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
 - Senator Douglas J. J. Peters, District 23
 - Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 6
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Discipline
 - Education, Boards of
 - Education -see also- Driver Ed; Higher Ed; Special Ed; etc
 - Local Government Mandates
 - Public Schools
 - Students
 - Truancy
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Education
 - (
 1-101 ,
 7-304.1 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Senate
- Number: 694030/01     Offered on: February 14, 2008   at:
10:24 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- February 18, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (46-1)
 
House 
- March 28, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (141-0)