Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB879: Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the State; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
What the bill says
An act concerning Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools FOR the purpose of establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the State; and generally relating to the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools.
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools FOR the purpose of establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the State; and generally relating to the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools. SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That: (a) There is a Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools. (b) The Task Force consists of the following members: (1) one member of the Senate of Maryland, appointed by the President of the Senate; (2) one member of the House of Delegates, appointed by the Speaker of the House; and (3) the following members, appointed by the State Superintendent of (ii) one representative of the Governor's Office; (iii) one school-based administrator; (iv) one public school teacher; (v) one school counselor; (vi) one parent of a student enrolled in a public school; (vii) one pupil personnel worker; (viii) one public school student; Ch. 243 2025 LAWS OF MARYLAND (viii) (ix) one representative of a teacher's union; (ix) (x) one representative of an institution of higher education; (x) (xi) one representative of a nationally …