Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB324: County Boards of Education - Antibias Training for Members - Requirement (County Board Member Antibias Training Act)
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term.
What the bill says
An act concerning County Boards of Education - Antibias Training for Members - Requirement (County Board Member Antibias Training Act) FOR the purpose of requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term; and generally relating to antibias training for members of county boards of education. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 6-129 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement).
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning County Boards of Education - Antibias Training for Members - Requirement (County Board Member Antibias Training Act) FOR the purpose of requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term; and generally relating to antibias training for members of county boards of education. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 6-129 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Education 6-129. (a) (1) The Department shall develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees. (2) The guidelines developed under this subsection (ii) Incorporate lessons in cultural awareness; (iii) Aim to reduce implicit bias; (iv) Be culturally responsive to the needs of educators and students; (v) Raise awareness of biases, prejudices, intolerances, and discrimination faced by African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Hispanic Americans, and other historically marginalized racial and ethnic minorities; (vi) Combat prejudices faced by historically marginalized religious minorities, including antisemitism and Islamophobia; Ch. 301 2025 LAWS OF MARYLAND (vii) Seek to achieve schools that are more inclusive and tolerant of students, faculty, and staff regardless of an individual's race, national origin, marital …