2012 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education (F1)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 82
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Glenn
- Entitled
- Public School Buildings - Carbon Monoxide Detection and Warning Equipment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Howard, Cane, Healey, and B. Robinson
- Entitled
- Education - Children and Youth - Reporting of Information Concerning Student Health, Well-Being, and Growth
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Anderson (By Request - Baltimore City Administration)
- Entitled
- Education - Retiree Health Savings - Maintenance of Effort
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Walker
- Entitled
- State Board of Education - Financial Literacy Curriculum - Graduation Requirement
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Walker, Alston, Anderson, Bates, Braveboy, Burns, Cardin, Davis, Feldman, Frank, Frush, George, Haynes, Healey, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard, Ivey, Kach, Lafferty, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Olszewski, Pena-Melnyk, Proctor, B. Robinson, Ross, Summers, Tarrant, V. Turner, Vaughn, Wilson, Wood, and Zucker
- Entitled
- Student Health and Fitness Act
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Niemann
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Meal Menus - Nutrition Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - Education)
- Entitled
- Education - Children in Out-of-County Living Arrangements - Payments for Children with Disabilities
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Haynes, Anderson, Branch, Carter, Clippinger, Hammen, Harrison, McHale, McIntosh, Mitchell, Oaks, B. Robinson, Rosenberg, Stukes, Tarrant, and Washington
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - School Construction - Block Grant
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Luedtke
- Entitled
- Tobacco-Free Schools Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Myers, Afzali, Barve, Boteler, Branch, Cardin, Fisher, Frick, George, Glass, Haddaway-Riccio, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, Kaiser, Luedtke, McDonough, A. Miller, Parrott, Rosenberg, Ross, Serafini, Stukes, Summers, and Walker
- Entitled
- Education - Public Secondary Schools Near Boundary of Two Counties
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Costa
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Physical Examinations - Calculation of Body Mass Index
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
HB 373
Status as of April 9, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Favorable with Amendments Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Braveboy, Alston, Anderson, Branch, Burns, Cane, Carr, Carter, Cullison, Glenn, Gutierrez, Harrison, Haynes, Holmes, Ivey, Jones, Mitchell, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Proctor, B. Robinson, Stukes, Summers, Tarrant, V. Turner, Valentino-Smith, Vaughn, Washington, and Wilson
- Entitled
- Education - Age for Compulsory Public School Attendance - Exemptions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Myers, Afzali, Glass, McComas, Norman, Parrott, Serafini, Smigiel, Barve, Boteler, Branch, Frick, George, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, Kaiser, Luedtke, A. Miller, Rosenberg, Ross, Stukes, Summers, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Epinephrine Availability and Use - Policy Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stocksdale, Bates, Kipke, Myers, Ready, B. Robinson, Serafini, and Wood
- Entitled
- State Board of Education - Study on the Use of Prefabricated School Construction
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Gutierrez, Barkley, Bobo, Carr, Carter, Cullison, Feldman, Frick, Frush, Guzzone, Haynes, Holmes, Howard, Hucker, Ivey, A. Kelly, Kramer, Lee, Luedtke, A. Miller, Mitchell, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Pena-Melnyk, Proctor, Reznik, B. Robinson, S. Robinson, Sophocleus, Stukes, V. Turner, Waldstreicher, and Zucker
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Student Attendance - Preventing Chronic Absenteeism
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Luedtke, Rosenberg, Barkley, Barve, Cullison, Gutierrez, Hucker, Ivey, A. Kelly, Reznik, Stukes, and Summers
- Entitled
- Education - Parent-Teacher Meetings - Unpaid Leave
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kaiser, Barkley, Cullison, Gutierrez, Ivey, A. Kelly, Luedtke, Reznik, S. Robinson, Stukes, Summers, and Zucker
- Entitled
- Child with a Disability - Individualized Education Program Meeting - Document Access
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hough, Afzali, Hogan, and Schulz
- Entitled
- Education - Informal Kinship Care - Enrollment Before Submission of Documentation
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Beitzel, K. Kelly, and Myers
- Entitled
- Education - State Aid - Grant to Limit Decreases in Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Luedtke, and Washington
- Entitled
- Education - Task Force to Explore Incorporating the Subject of Agriculture in Existing Curricular Areas
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kaiser, Carr, Frick, Luedtke, B. Robinson, Stocksdale, Stukes, Summers, Washington, and Zucker
- Entitled
- State Department of Education - School Guidance Counselors and Pupil Personnel Workers - Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Luedtke and Wilson
- Entitled
- Education - Domicile Requirements for Attendance - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bates, Glass, Hough, Kipke, McDonough, Schuh, Smigiel, Stocksdale, and Szeliga
- Entitled
- Education - Public Schools - Parent Trigger
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Education - Public School Construction Funding and Children's Indoor Environmental Health
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations and Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Alston
- Entitled
- County Boards of Education - Children in Home Instruction Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Murphy, Barve, Branch, Carr, Frick, Gilchrist, Howard, Hubbard, Ivey, Kipke, Luedtke, Rosenberg, Ross, Stukes, Summers, Walker, and Cardin
- Entitled
- County Boards of Education - Green Product Cleaning Supplies - Written Policies
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Alston
- Entitled
- Elementary and Secondary Education - County-Supervised Home Instruction - High School Diploma
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bates
- Entitled
- State Department of Education - Virtual Learning Opportunities - Survey and Report
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Walker, Cardin, Frick, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, Kaiser, A. Miller, Myers, Rosenberg, Stukes, Summers, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Education - Student Athletes - Heat Acclimatization Guidelines
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Carter, Arora, Barkley, Carr, Cullison, DeBoy, Dumais, Frick, Frush, Howard, Hucker, Kaiser, A. Kelly, K. Kelly, W. Miller, Reznik, B. Robinson, Simmons, Sophocleus, Stein, Summers, and Valderrama
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Dating Violence - Kristen Marie Mitchell Law
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg and Hucker
- Entitled
- Public School Teachers and Administrators - Appeals and Layoffs - Rights and Limitations
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mizeur, Anderson, Luedtke, B. Robinson, and Washington
- Entitled
- Building Better Schools Through Innovation Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kaiser, Carr, A. Miller, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Education - Public Schools - Maximum Student Enrollment Policy - Study
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boteler, Cluster, George, Glass, Hough, Ivey, Kach, McDermott, A. Miller, Myers, Norman, Stukes, Walker, and Weir
- Entitled
- Primary and Secondary Education - Online Courses - Acceptance of Courses Approved by Other States
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ivey and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Public Charter Schools - Chartering Authorities, Application Requirements, and Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Ivey
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study the Improvement of Maryland Public Charter Schools
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boteler, Branch, Cluster, George, Glass, Hixson, Hough, Ivey, Kach, McDermott, A. Miller, Myers, Norman, Stukes, Summers, F. Turner, Walker, and Weir
- Entitled
- Primary and Secondary Education - Online Courses and Services - Development or Review and Approval
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boteler, Cluster, George, Glass, Hixson, Hough, Ivey, Kach, McDermott, A. Miller, Myers, Norman, Stukes, and Weir
- Entitled
- State Board of Education - Online Courses - Approval Processing Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg and Luedtke
- Entitled
- Education - Guidelines for Using State Produce in Schools - Required
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Busch, Kaiser, Branch, Conway, Cullison, Gilchrist, Haddaway-Riccio, Kach, Luedtke, McComas, McHale, Mitchell, O'Donnell, Olszewski, Reznik, S. Robinson, Rudolph, Stukes, Waldstreicher, Zucker, Cardin, Fisher, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, A. Miller, Myers, Rosenberg, Ross, Serafini, Summers, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Education - Core Content Areas - Accountability Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Hucker, Ivey, Kaiser, Luedtke, Myers, Ross, and Walker
- Entitled
- Education - Preschool for All - Establishment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Fisher
- Entitled
- Education - Calvert County Board of Education - Annual Audit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Bates, Beitzel, Bohanan, Busch, Clagett, DeBoy, Eckardt, Gaines, Griffith, Gutierrez, Guzzone, Hixson, Jones, Malone, McConkey, McIntosh, Mizeur, Proctor, Sophocleus, Stocksdale, Washington, Wood, Zucker, Aumann, Glenn, Haynes, James, and Szeliga
- Entitled
- Public School Construction Program - Maryland School for the Blind
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Oaks, Costa, Frank, Kipke, Pena-Melnyk, and Stukes
- Entitled
- State Department of Education - Oral Health Education
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
HB 1408
Status as of February 27, 2012: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Boteler, Aumann, Bates, Cluster, Dwyer, Frank, Glass, Impallaria, Jacobs, McConkey, McDonough, Myers, Otto, Ready, Smigiel, and Weir
- Entitled
- Education - Religious Bills of Rights - Individuals Connected to Public Schools
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bohanan, Kaiser, Jones, Conway, Hixson, Branch, Guzzone, Luedtke, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Education - Maintenance of Effort
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means and Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Myers and Beitzel
- Entitled
- Education - School Attendance in Another County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mitchell and Ivey
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Provision of Supplemental Educational Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Education - Children in Informal Kinship Care Relationships - Payments for Students with Disabilities - Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senator Glassman
- Entitled
- State Payments of Public School Construction Costs - Remittance of Reimbursement to County
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Education)
- Entitled
- Education - Comprehensive Master Plans
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Benson, Montgomery, and Young
- Entitled
- Public School Buildings - Carbon Monoxide Detection and Warning Equipment
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Education - Informal Kinship Care - Enrollment Before Submission of Documentation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs, Brinkley, Edwards, Getty, Glassman, Kittleman, Pipkin, and Reilly
- Entitled
- Education - School Construction - Applicability of Priority Funding Areas
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator McFadden
- Entitled
- Sales and Use Tax - Distribution of Revenues - Public School Construction
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Jones-Rodwell (By Request - Baltimore City Administration)
- Entitled
- Education - Retiree Health Savings - Maintenance of Effort
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Miller, Kittleman, Benson, Brinkley, Colburn, Conway, Currie, DeGrange, Edwards, Ferguson, Forehand, Garagiola, Getty, Glassman, Jacobs, Jennings, Jones-Rodwell, Kasemeyer, Kelley, King, Klausmeier, Madaleno, Manno, Mathias, McFadden, Montgomery, Peters, Pipkin, Pugh, Ramirez, Raskin, Robey, Shank, Stone, Young, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Education - Core Content Areas - Accountability Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
SB 307
Status as of February 28, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Colburn, Jones-Rodwell, Madaleno, Muse, Raskin, and Stone
- Entitled
- State Board of Education - Financial Literacy Curriculum - Graduation Requirement
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Ferguson, Gladden, Jones-Rodwell, Madaleno, Montgomery, Ramirez, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Education - Parent-Teacher Meetings - Unpaid Leave
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Benson, Conway, Currie, Forehand, Garagiola, Jones-Rodwell, Madaleno, McFadden, Stone, Ferguson, Pinsky, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Education - Age for Compulsory Public School Attendance - Exemptions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
SB 478
Status as of April 1, 2012: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ferguson
- Entitled
- Education - School Buses - Fire Safety Standards for Engine Components - Study
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jones-Rodwell, Conway, Ferguson, Gladden, McFadden, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - School Construction - Block Grant
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Getty
- Entitled
- Open Meetings Act - Public Body - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
SB 564
Status as of March 16, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Benson, Dyson, Ferguson, Forehand, Garagiola, Gladden, Jones-Rodwell, Kasemeyer, Madaleno, Manno, McFadden, Middleton, Montgomery, Muse, Ramirez, Raskin, Stone, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Student Health and Fitness Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Education - State Aid - Grant to Limit Decreases in Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Education - Domicile Requirements for Attendance - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Shank, Jennings, Simonaire, Young, Mathias, and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Epinephrine Availability and Use - Policy Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
SB 625
Status as of February 28, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Forehand and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Tobacco-Free Schools Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Primary and Secondary Education - Online Courses and Services - Development or Review and Approval
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senator Montgomery
- Entitled
- County Boards of Education - Green Product Cleaning Supplies - Written Policies
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
SB 735
Status as of March 19, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Rosapepe
- Entitled
- State Board of Education - Online Courses - Approval Processing Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 736
Status as of March 19, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Primary and Secondary Education - Online Courses - Acceptance of Courses Approved by Other States
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Madaleno
- Entitled
- Property Tax - Charter Counties - Education Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator King
- Entitled
- Education - Maintenance of Effort
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means and Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators King, Forehand, Garagiola, Madaleno, Manno, Montgomery, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Education - Maintenance of Effort - Waiver of Penalty
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
SB 863
Status as of March 12, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Manno, Colburn, and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Dating Violence - Kristen Marie Mitchell Law
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Conway, Dyson, Montgomery, Rosapepe, and Simonaire
- Entitled
- State Department of Education - Oral Health Education
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ferguson
- Entitled
- Public School Teachers and Administrators - Appeals and Layoffs - Rights and Limitations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ferguson
- Entitled
- Education - Preschool for All - Establishment and Funding
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation and Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 983
Status as of March 21, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ferguson
- Entitled
- Task Force to Develop a Creativity and Innovation Index for Maryland
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 989
Status as of March 7, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Mathias
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Administration of Auto-Injectable Epinephrine
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Finance
SB 1090
Status as of March 15, 2012: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pugh
- Entitled
- Public Schools - Provision of Supplemental Educational Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
