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SENATE BILL 436
F3 (2lr3014)
ENROLLED BILL
— Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs/Ways and Means —
Introduced by Carroll County Senators
Read and Examined by Proofreaders:
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Proofreader.
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Proofreader.
Sealed with the Great Seal and presented to the Governor, for his approval this
_______ day of _______________ at ________________________ o’clock, ________M.
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President.
CHAPTER ______
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 Carroll County Board of Education; and generally 6
relating to the Carroll County Board of 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 2 SENATE BILL 436
Article – Education 1
Section 3–401(f) and 3–403 2
Annotated Code of Maryland 3
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 4
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 5
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 6
Article – Education 7
3–401. 8
(a) The Carroll County Board consists of: 9
(1) Five voting members; 10
(2) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, one nonvoting student 11
representative; and 12
(3) The County Commissioners, who are nonvoting ex officio members. 13
(f) (1) The student representative shall: 14
(i) Be an eleventh or a twelfth grade student in the Carroll County 15
public school system elected by the high school students of the county in accordance with 16
procedures established by the school system; 17
(ii) Be a student government association representative at the 18
student’s high school; 19
(iii) Serve for 1 year beginning on July 1 after the election of the 20
student representative; and 21
(iv) Advise the county board on the thoughts and feelings of students 22
in Carroll County public schools. 23
(2) AN INDIVIDUAL MAY NOT SERVE MORE THAN ONE TERM AS THE 24
STUDENT REPRESENTATI VE. 25
[(2)] (3) Unless invited to attend by an affirmative vote of a majority of 26
the county board, the student representative may not attend an executive session of the 27
county board. 28
3–403. 29
SENATE BILL 436 3
(a) The president of the county board is entitled to receive [$9,000] $13,000 1
annually as compensation and the other voting members are entitled to receive [$8,000] 2
$12,000 each annually as compensation. 3
(b) The compensation of the president and the voting members described in 4
subsection (a) of this section shall be paid in four equal quarterly installments. 5
(c) (1) (i) A student representative who completes a full term on the county 6
board shall be entitled to a scholarship of $3,500 to be applied to the student’s higher 7
education costs. 8
(ii) The scholarship shall be paid directly to the educational 9
institution that the student attends. 10
(iii) [A student may receive not more than two scholarships of $3,500 11
each regardless of the number of terms the student serves as the student representative of 12
the county board. 13
(iv)] The scholarship may not be considered compensation for the 14
purpose of calculating taxable income. 15
(2) On the submission of expense vouchers, the student representative is 16
entitled to reimbursement for travel and other expenses incurred in the performance of 17
official duties for the county board. 18
(3) The student representative is not entitled to any compensation or 19
payment other than that specified under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection for work 20
as the student representative of the county board. 21
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 22
1, 2022. 23
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.