Key Votes
HB 373 - Raises the Dropout Age for Public School Students - Key Vote
Maryland Key Votes
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Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - April 9, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (88-49) - April 5, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Raises the Dropout Age for Public School Students
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that raises the dropout age for students enrolled in Maryland public schools.
Highlights:
- Requires each child residing in the state to regularly attend public school during the entire school year from the age of 5 through the age of 17, whereas existing law only required school attendance until age 16, beginning July 1, 2015 (Sec. 1).
- Requires each child residing in the state to regularly attend public school during the entire school year from the age of 5 through the age of 18, whereas existing law only required school attendance until age 16, beginning in July 1, 2017 (Sec. 2).
- Repeals homeschooling as a reason for exemption from the requirement to attend school (Secs. 1 & 2).
- Repeals part-time attendance in GED courses as a reason for exemption from the requirement to attend school (Secs. 1 & 2).
- Requires a child under the age of 18 who is no longer participating in GED courses or who has failed to obtain a passing score on the GED to return to public school (Secs. 1 & 2).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 1, 2012
Title: Raises the Dropout Age for Public School Students
Sponsors
- Tiffany T. Alston (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Curtis Stovall 'Curt' Anderson (MD - D)
- Talmadge Branch (MD - D)
- Aisha N. Braveboy (MD - D)
- Emmett C. Burns Jr. (MD - D)
- Rudolph C. Cane (MD - D)
- Alfred Clinton 'Al' Carr Jr. (MD - D)
- Jill P. Carter (MD - D)
- Bonnie L. Cullison (MD - D)
- Cheryl D. Glenn (MD - D)
- Ana Sol Gutierrez (MD - D)
- Hattie N. Harrison (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Keith E. Haynes (MD - D)
- Marvin E. Holmes Jr. (MD - D)
- Jolene Ivey (MD - D)
- Adrienne A. Jones (MD - D)
- Keiffer Jackson Mitchell Jr. (MD - D)
- Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (MD - D)
- Nathaniel T. Oaks (MD - D)
- Joseline A. Pena-Melnyk (MD - D)
- James E. Proctor Jr. (MD - D)
- Barbara A. Robinson (MD - D)
- Melvin L. Stukes (MD - D)
- Michael G. Summers (MD - D)
- Shawn Z. Tarrant (MD - D)
- Veronica L. Turner (MD - D)
- Geraldine Valentino-Smith (MD - D)
- Michael L. Vaughn (MD - D)
- Mary L. Washington (MD - D)
- C. T. 'C.T.' Wilson (MD - D)
