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SENATE BILL 436
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By: Carroll County Senators
Introduced and read first time: January 26, 2022
Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Carroll County – Board of Education – Member Compensation and Student 2
Representative 3
FOR the purpose of altering the term of and scholarship for the student representative on 4
the Carroll County Board of Education; altering the compensation for the voting 5
members of the county board; and generally relating to the Carroll County Board of 6
Education. 7
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 8
Article – Education 9
Section 3–401(a) 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 12
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 13
Article – Education 14
Section 3–401(f) and 3–403 15
Annotated Code of Maryland 16
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 17
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 18
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 19
Article – Education 20
3–401. 21
(a) The Carroll County Board consists of: 22
(1) Five voting members; 23
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(2) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, one nonvoting student 1
representative; and 2
(3) The County Commissioners, who are nonvoting ex officio members. 3
(f) (1) The student representative shall: 4
(i) Be an eleventh or a twelfth grade student in the Carroll County 5
public school system elected by the high school students of the county in accordance with 6
procedures established by the school system; 7
(ii) Be a student government association representative at the 8
student’s high school; 9
(iii) Serve for 1 year beginning on July 1 after the election of the 10
student representative; and 11
(iv) Advise the county board on the thoughts and feelings of students 12
in Carroll County public schools. 13
(2) AN INDIVIDUAL MAY NOT SERVE MORE THAN ONE TERM AS THE 14
STUDENT REPRESENTATI VE. 15
[(2)] (3) Unless invited to attend by an affirmative vote of a majority of 16
the county board, the student representative may not attend an executive session of the 17
county board. 18
3–403. 19
(a) The president of the county board is entitled to receive [$9,000] $13,000 20
annually as compensation and the other voting members are entitled to receive [$8,000] 21
$12,000 each annually as compensation. 22
(b) The compensation of the president and the voting members described in 23
subsection (a) of this section shall be paid in four equal quarterly installments. 24
(c) (1) (i) A student representative who completes a full term on the county 25
board shall be entitled to a scholarship of $3,500 to be applied to the student’s higher 26
education costs. 27
(ii) The scholarship shall be paid directly to the educational 28
institution that the student attends. 29
(iii) [A student may receive not more than two scholarships of $3,500 30
each regardless of the number of terms the student serves as the student representative of 31
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(iv)] The scholarship may not be considered compensation for the 1
purpose of calculating taxable income. 2
(2) On the submission of expense vouchers, the student representative is 3
entitled to reimbursement for travel and other expenses incurred in the performance of 4
official duties for the county board. 5
(3) The student representative is not entitled to any compensation or 6
payment other than that specified under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection for work 7
as the student representative of the county board. 8
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 9
1, 2022. 10