Bill Number: SB 0776
Issue Code: Education
Title: PARENT EMPOWERMENT ACT OF 2011
Synopsis: Authorizing specified parents and legal guardians of students attending public schools that are subject to corrective action and are not making adequate yearly progress to petition county boards of education to implement specified interventions based on improving academic achievement or student safety; requiring county boards to notify the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Board of Education of the receipt and disposition of specified petitions; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE: OCTOBER 1, 2011
Staff Assigned: Leslie Knapp Jr. (lknapp@mdcounties.org)
Bill Number: HB 1081
Issue Code: Education
Title: EDUCATION – PUBLIC SCHOOLS – PETITIONS FOR INTERVENTION Synopsis: Authorizing specified parents and legal guardians of students attending public schools that are subject to corrective action and are not making adequate yearly progress to petition county boards of education to implement specified interventions; requiring county boards to notify the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Board of Education on receipt and of final disposition of specified petitions; requiring county boards to make specified determinations in a specified manner in a specified time frame; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate.
EFFECTIVE: OCTOBER 1, 2011
Staff Assigned: Leslie Knapp Jr. (lknapp@mdcounties.org)
Bill Number: HB 1208
Issue Code: Education
Title: HIGHER EDUCATION – EXEMPTION FROM TUITION FOR FOSTER CARE RECIPIENTS – ELIGIBILITY AGE.
Synopsis: Altering from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled at public institutions of higher education to be exempt from paying specified tuition; and altering from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled as candidates for specified degrees to not be required to pay the difference between the amount of specified scholarships or grants and the amount of specified tuition.
EFFECTIVE: JULY 1, 2011
Staff Assigned: Leslie Knapp Jr. (
lknapp@mdcounties.org)
Bill Number: HB 1228 crossfiled with SB 882
Issue Code: Employee Benefits and Relations
Title: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE – FEDERAL EXTENDED BENEFITS FOR THE LONG–TERM UNEMPLOYED.
Synopsis: Specifying that, for specified weeks of unemployment, a State “on” indicator for extended unemployment benefits exists under specified circumstances; specifying that a State “off” indicator exists for specified extended unemployment benefits under specified circumstances; prohibiting specified extended benefits from being payable for any week of unemployment beginning before a specified date; specifying the total amount of specified extended benefits that are payable to an eligible individual; etc.
EFFECTIVE: OCTOBER 1, 2011
Testimony: Testimony
Staff Assigned: Andrea Mansfield (
amansfield@mdcounties.org)
MACo Position: Support with Amendment Revised Position: Support Bill Status: PASSED Comment: Bill was amended to reimburse local governments for a portion of the costs associated with providing the extended benefits.
Bill Number: SB 0262 crossfiled with HB 127
Issue Code: Education
Title: STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION – FINANCIAL LITERACY CURRICULUM – GRADUATION REQUIREMENT.
Synopsis: Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a course in financial literacy; requiring each county board of education to implement the financial literacy curriculum content developed by the State Board in every high school in the county; and requiring students to complete a course in financial literacy in order to graduate from high school.
EFFECTIVE: OCTOBER 1, 2011
Staff Assigned:
Leslie Knapp Jr. (
lknapp@mdcounties.org)
Bill Number: SB 0474 crossfiled with HB 191
Issue Code: Education
Title: PUBLIC SCHOOLS – STUDENT ATTENDANCE – PREVENTING CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM.
Synopsis: Requiring public schools to maintain a record of the daily attendance of students in kindergarten through 12th grade using a specified identifier, calculate and maintain a record of specified attendance information, and submit a report to the county board of education that includes specified student attendance information for each grading period each year; requiring each county board to calculate and maintain a specified record of countywide student attendance information; etc.
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011
Staff Assigned:Leslie Knapp Jr. (lknapp@mdcounties.org)
Bill Number :SB 0676
Issue Code: Education
Title: COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION – ALIEN STUDENTS.
Synopsis: Requiring each county board of education, on or before March 1 of each year, to make a good faith effort to provide the governing body of the county with the total number of students enrolled in the public school system of the county whose presence in the United States cannot be reasonably documented; and prohibiting a county board from associating a student’s race, appearance, language, or name with citizenship or immigration status.
EFFECTIVE: JULY 1, 2011
Staff Assigned: Leslie Knapp Jr. (
lknapp@mdcounties.org)
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