LAWRENCE J. HOGAN, JR., Governor Ch. 580
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Chapter 580
(Senate Bill 436)
AN ACT concerning
Carroll County – Board of Education – Member Compensation and Student
Representative
FOR the purpose of altering the term of and scholarship for the student representative on
the Carroll County Board of Education; altering the compensation for the voting
members of the county board Carroll County Board of Education; and generally
relating to the Carroll County Board of Education.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article – Education
Section 3–401(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article – Education
Section 3–401(f) and 3–403
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article – Education
3–401.
(a) The Carroll County Board consists of:
(1) Five voting members;
(2) Subject to subsection (f) of this section, one nonvoting student
representative; and
(3) The County Commissioners, who are nonvoting ex officio members.
(f) (1) The student representative shall:
(i) Be an eleventh or a twelfth grade student in the Carroll County
public school system elected by the high school students of the county in accordance with
procedures established by the school system; Ch. 580 2022 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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(ii) Be a student government association representative at the
student’s high school;
(iii) Serve for 1 year beginning on July 1 after the election of the
student representative; and
(iv) Advise the county board on the thoughts and feelings of students
in Carroll County public schools.
(2) AN INDIVIDUAL MAY NOT SERVE MORE T HAN ONE TERM AS THE
STUDENT REPRESENTATI VE.
[(2)] (3) Unless invited to attend by an affirmative vote of a majority of
the county board, the student representative may not attend an executive session of the
county board.
3–403.
(a) The president of the county board is entitled to receive [$9,000] $13,000
annually as compensation and the other voting members are entitled to receive [$8,000]
$12,000 each annually as compensation.
(b) The compensation of the president and the voting members described in
subsection (a) of this section shall be paid in four equal quarterly installments.
(c) (1) (i) A student representative who completes a full term on the county
board shall be entitled to a scholarship of $3,500 to be applied to the student’s higher
education costs.
(ii) The scholarship shall be paid directly to the educational
institution that the student attends.
(iii) [A student may receive not more than two scholarships of $3,500
each regardless of the number of terms the student serves as the student representative of
the county board.
(iv)] The scholarship may not be considered compensation for the
purpose of calculating taxable income.
(2) On the submission of expense vouchers, the student representative is
entitled to reimbursement for travel and other expenses incurred in the performance of
official duties for the county board.
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(3) The student representative is not entitled to any compensation or
payment other than that specified under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection for work
as the student representative of the county board.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July
1, 2022.
Enacted under Article II, § 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution, May 29, 2022.