Legislation

Title: Public Schools – Health and Safety – Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Classrooms (Safe School Indoor Air Act)
Sponsored by: Delegates Solomon, Boyce, Carr, Charles, Forbes, Fraser-Hidalgo, Kelly, Lehman, Love, Luedtke, Palakovich Carr, Ruth, Shetty, Stewart, Terrasa, Valentino-Smith, Wilkins, and P. Young
Status: In the House - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
Analysis: Fiscal and Policy Note

Synopsis

Establishing the Safe School Indoor Air Program in the Maryland Department of the Environment to improve indoor air quality in public school classrooms; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Maryland State Department of Education, to administer the Program; requiring public schools to monitor carbon dioxide levels in each classroom in a school at least twice each school year; requiring certain remediation measures; and requiring each county board of education to develop a certain policy and implementation plan.

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Original:: Environment and Transportation Click to view Recorded Media; Appropriations

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Details

Bill File Type: Regular

Effective Date(s): July 1, 2022

Bill imposes a local government mandate, which is a directive in a bill requiring a local government unit to perform a task or assume a responsibility that has a discernible fiscal impact on the local government unit

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/31/2022 Legislative Date 1/31/2022 Action First Reading Environment and Transportation and Appropriations Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Text - First - Public Schools – Health and Safety – Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Classrooms (Safe School Indoor Air Act) Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/09/2022 Legislative Date 2/09/2022 Action Hearing 2/25 at 11:00 a.m. (Environment and Transportation) Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/15/2022 Legislative Date 2/15/2022 Action Hearing canceled (Environment and Transportation) Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/15/2022 Legislative Date 2/15/2022 Action Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action
House	1/31/2022	1/31/2022	First Reading Environment and Transportation and Appropriations
			Text - First - Public Schools – Health and Safety – Carbon Dioxide Monitoring in Classrooms (Safe School Indoor Air Act)
House	2/09/2022	2/09/2022	Hearing 2/25 at 11:00 a.m. (Environment and Transportation)
House	2/15/2022	2/15/2022	Hearing canceled (Environment and Transportation)
House	2/15/2022	2/15/2022	Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)

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