2007 house journal index of days - Maryland General Assembly

424 Journal of Proceedings Feb. 7, 2007
BY adding to
Article – Education
Section 18–14A–01 through 18–14A–03 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle
14A. Dual Enrollment Grant Program”
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2006 Replacement Volume)
Read the first time and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
House Bill 539 – Delegates Busch, Barnes, Beidle, V. Clagett, Costa, Frush, George,
J. King, Kipke, Love, McConkey, Pena–Melnyk, Schuh, and Sophocleus
AN ACT concerning
Creation of a State Debt – Anne Arundel County – Bayhead Park
FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the
proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Executive and County Council of
Anne Arundel County for certain development or improvement purposes;
providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the
grantee provide and expend a matching fund; establishing a deadline for the
encumbrance or expenditure of the loan proceeds; and providing generally for the
issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan.
Read the first time and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
House Bill 540 – Delegate Haddaway
AN ACT concerning
Education – Laptop Computer Distribution Program
FOR the purpose of establishing the Laptop Computer Distribution Program in the
Department of Education; providing the purpose of the Program; requiring the
Department to work with each county to provide certain laptop computers to
certain students enrolled in certain public schools; authorizing a county board to
opt out of the Program for certain reasons; requiring certain county boards to
develop and submit to the Department a certain technology plan that includes
certain information; requiring the Department to provide certain funds in a certain
amount for the cost of the program in each participating county; requiring certain
funding to be included in the Department’s annual budget; prohibiting certain
appropriations for the Program from supplanting the State share of certain basic
expenses; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations;