Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB325: Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to choose to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the examination in additional languages and to report its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2026.
What the bill says
An act concerning Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the same language; requiring the Department to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before a certain date; and generally relating to examination requirements for a high school diploma by examination…
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the same language; requiring the Department to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before a certain date; and generally relating to examination requirements for a high school diploma by examination. BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Labor and Employment Section 11-808(a), (b), and (d) Annotated Code of Maryland (2016 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Labor and Employment Section 11-808(c) Annotated Code of Maryland (2016 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 - Labor and Employment 11-808. (a) An individual may obtain a high school diploma by examination as provided in this section if the (2) resides in this State; and (3) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section: (i) is not subject to compulsory school attendance under § 7-301 of the Education Article; and Ch. 328 2025 LAWS OF MARYLAND (ii) has withdrawn from a regular full-time public or private school program. (b) …