2025 Regular SessionMaryland Legislature

SB819: Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding

Legislative Summary

Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.

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Bill History

2/3/2025
First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation
Senate
2/5/2025
Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
Senate
3/4/2025
Hearing canceled (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
Senate
3/4/2025
Hearing 3/07 at 9:00 a.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/3/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Education, Energy, and the Environment(Senate)

Sponsors

Democrat: 2

Primary Sponsor

Ron Watson
Ron Watson
Democrat

Co-Sponsors (1)

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text2/4/2025116.0 KB