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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *sb0576* |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE BILL 576 |
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| 8 | 8 | | F1 2lr2514 |
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| 9 | 9 | | CF HB 665 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Senator Klausmeier |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 2, 2022 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | Public Schools – Air Quality Testing – Posting Online 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of requiring each county board of education to retain the services of a 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | qualified indoor air quality investigator to conduct any indoor air quality tests the 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | board chooses to have conducted in a public school in the county; requiring a county 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | board and the State Department of Education, on receipt of the results of an indoor 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | air quality test, to post the results on its website in a certain manner; and generally 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | relating to indoor air quality testing in public schools. 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | BY adding to 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Article – Education 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 7–447.2 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 12 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 13 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14 |
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| 34 | 34 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15 |
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| 35 | 35 | | |
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| 36 | 36 | | Article – Education 16 |
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| 37 | 37 | | |
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| 38 | 38 | | 7–447.2. 17 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) EACH COUNTY BOARD SHA LL RETAIN THE SERVIC ES OF A QUALIFIED 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | INDOOR AIR QUALITY I NVESTIGATOR TO CONDU CT ANY INDOOR AIR QU ALITY 19 |
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| 42 | 42 | | TESTING THE BO ARD CHOOSES TO HAVE CONDUCTED IN A PUBLI C SCHOOL IN THE 20 |
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| 43 | 43 | | COUNTY. 21 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) (1) ON RECEIPT OF THE RES ULTS OF AN INDOOR AI R QUALITY TEST, 22 |
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| 46 | 46 | | A COUNTY BOARD SHALL : 23 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2 SENATE BILL 576 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (I) POST THE RESULTS ON I TS WEBSITE; AND 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (II) SUBMIT THE RESULTS TO THE DEPARTMENT . 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (2) ON RECEIPT OF THE RESULT S OF AN INDOOR AIR Q UALITY TEST, 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | THE DEPARTMENT SHALL POST THE RESULTS ON ITS W EBSITE. 4 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (3) THE RESULTS POSTED UN DER PARAGRAPHS (1)(I) AND (2) OF 5 |
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| 58 | 58 | | THIS SUBSECTION SHAL L BE: 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | |
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| 60 | 60 | | (I) WRITTEN IN A MANNER T HAT IS CLEAR AND EAS Y FOR THE 7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND ; AND 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | |
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| 63 | 63 | | (II) POSTED IN A CONSPICUO US LOCATION THAT IS EASY FOR 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | THE PUBLIC TO FIND A ND ACCESS. 10 |
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| 66 | 66 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 11 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 1, 2022. 12 |
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