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SENATE BILL 576
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CF HB 665
By: Senator Klausmeier
Introduced and read first time: February 2, 2022
Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Public Schools – Air Quality Testing – Posting Online 2
FOR the purpose of requiring each county board of education to retain the services of a 3
qualified indoor air quality investigator to conduct any indoor air quality tests the 4
board chooses to have conducted in a public school in the county; requiring a county 5
board and the State Department of Education, on receipt of the results of an indoor 6
air quality test, to post the results on its website in a certain manner; and generally 7
relating to indoor air quality testing in public schools. 8
BY adding to 9
Article – Education 10
Section 7–447.2 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 13
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15
Article – Education 16
7–447.2. 17
(A) EACH COUNTY BOARD SHA LL RETAIN THE SERVIC ES OF A QUALIFIED 18
INDOOR AIR QUALITY I NVESTIGATOR TO CONDU CT ANY INDOOR AIR QU ALITY 19
TESTING THE BO ARD CHOOSES TO HAVE CONDUCTED IN A PUBLI C SCHOOL IN THE 20
COUNTY. 21
(B) (1) ON RECEIPT OF THE RES ULTS OF AN INDOOR AI R QUALITY TEST, 22
A COUNTY BOARD SHALL : 23
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(I) POST THE RESULTS ON I TS WEBSITE; AND 1
(II) SUBMIT THE RESULTS TO THE DEPARTMENT . 2
(2) ON RECEIPT OF THE RESULT S OF AN INDOOR AIR Q UALITY TEST, 3
THE DEPARTMENT SHALL POST THE RESULTS ON ITS W EBSITE. 4
(3) THE RESULTS POSTED UN DER PARAGRAPHS (1)(I) AND (2) OF 5
THIS SUBSECTION SHAL L BE: 6
(I) WRITTEN IN A MANNER T HAT IS CLEAR AND EAS Y FOR THE 7
PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND ; AND 8
(II) POSTED IN A CONSPICUO US LOCATION THAT IS EASY FOR 9
THE PUBLIC TO FIND A ND ACCESS. 10
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 11
1, 2022. 12