Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB782: Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any available assessment technologies evaluated under the Act; and requiring the Center to issue an interim report by December 1, 2025, and a final report on the findings of the study, in a manner that does not jeopardize school safety, by December 1, 2026.
What the bill says
An act concerning Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools FOR the purpose of requiring the State Department of Education Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to request any available assessment of the technologies evaluated under this Act; and generally relating to a study on detecting deadly weapons in public middle and high schools.
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools FOR the purpose of requiring the State Department of Education Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to request any available assessment of the technologies evaluated under this Act; and generally relating to a study on detecting deadly weapons in public middle and high schools. SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That: (a) The State Department of Education Maryland Center for School Safety shall study how best and (2) have schools rapidly report the detection of a deadly weapon to a law enforcement agency. (b) (1) The study required under this section shall include a comprehensive audit evaluation of the current security infrastructure used in each public school system in the State. (2) The audit evaluation shall include an evaluation of meetings with members of each local school system to and (ii) any gaps or areas that require improvement within the current security system. (3) The Center shall build on information collected as part of regular safety evaluations and other reports collected under § 7-1510 of the …