MarylandMaryland requires a staff well-being course if costs meet limits
Maryland’s State Department of Education must offer school staff and administrators a well-being course by July 1, 2027, if providing it meets the law’s cost condition.
What it does
Maryland’s education department must offer school staff and administrators a well-being course by July 1, 2027, only if providing it is free or costs an amount it considers comparable to a similar course.
Argument forIf offered, the course could help school staff manage stress by teaching ways to improve their emotional and physical well-being.
Argument againstThe cost condition could leave school staff without this course if the department cannot find a free or comparably priced option.
More detail
Maryland’s State Department of Education must make a course available on eight areas of well-being and ways educators can improve their own well-being. Any course offered must be available to all school staff and administrators. The department must provide the course only if doing so is free or costs an amount it considers comparable to what it pays for a similar course. The price for taking the course must be comparable to courses for licensed staff worth the same number of professional development points. The course deadline is July 1, 2027. The law took effect July 1, 2026, and expires at the end of June 30, 2031.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- May 26Approved by the Governor Wes Moore - Chapter 758Became Law
- Apr 10Passed EnrolledTo Governor
- Apr 10Third Reading PassedMajor
- Apr 10House Concurs Senate Amendments
- Apr 7Third Reading PassedPassed Senate
- Apr 6Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Apr 6Favorable with Amendments {Minor
- Apr 3Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentMinor
- Mar 25
- Vote recorded On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred). Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 19Referred Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentMinor
- Mar 18Third Reading PassedPassed House
- Vote recorded On Third Reading (Amend). Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 18Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 18Favorable with Amendments {Minor
- Mar 18Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and MeansMinor
- Mar 5
- Vote recorded On Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 4Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- Jan 27First Reading Ways and MeansIntroduced
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