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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 | | *hb1345* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 1345 |
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| 8 | 8 | | F4 4lr1566 |
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| 9 | 9 | | CF SB 737 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Harford County Delegation |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 9, 2024 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Appropriations |
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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 | | Higher Education – Harford Community College Board of Trustees – Alterations 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of requiring that a member of the Harford Community College Board of 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Trustees be a resident of Harford County for the duration of the member’s term; 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | altering the membership of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees; 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | requiring the Governor to consider certain factors when appointing members to the 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Board; altering meeting requirements so that the Harford Community College Board 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of Trustees and the Harford County Board of Education are no longer required to 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | attend certain meetings; and generally relating to the Harford Community College 9 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Board of Trustees. 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Article – Education 12 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 16–408 13 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 14 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 15 |
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| 35 | 35 | | BY adding to 16 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Article – Education 17 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Section 16–408.1 18 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 19 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 20 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENER AL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 21 |
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| 42 | 42 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 22 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Article – Education 23 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 16–408. 24 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2 HOUSE BILL 1345 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (a) (1) The HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE Board of [Community 1 |
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| 51 | 51 | | College] Trustees [for Harford County] consists of nine members APPOINTED FROM THE 2 |
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| 52 | 52 | | COUNTY AT LARGE . 3 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (2) Subject to paragraph [(4)] (3) of this subsection, each of the members 4 |
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| 55 | 55 | | shall be: 5 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (i) A resident of Harford County FOR THE DURATION OF THE 6 |
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| 58 | 58 | | MEMBER’S TERM; and 7 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (ii) Appointed by the Governor for terms of 5 years. 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) [Of the nine members: 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (i) Six shall be appointed with one from each of the six councilmanic 10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | districts; and 11 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (ii) Three shall be appointed from the county at large. 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (4)] No member may be a member of the Harford County Board of 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Education while serving as a member of the Board. 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (b) A member of the Board may not serve for more than two consecutive 5–year 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | terms. 16 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (c) [At least twice annually, the Board of Community College Trustees, the 17 |
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| 76 | 76 | | College President, the Harford County Board of Education, and the Superintendent of the 18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | Harford County public schools shall meet to discuss issues of mutual concern.] TO THE 19 |
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| 78 | 78 | | EXTENT PRACTICABLE , WHEN APPOINTING MEMB ERS TO THE BOARD, THE 20 |
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| 79 | 79 | | GOVERNOR SHALL TAKE I NTO CONSIDERATION TH E GEOGRAPHIC AND ETH NIC 21 |
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| 80 | 80 | | REPRESENTATION OF HARFORD COUNTY SO THAT ALL SEGMENTS OF THE 22 |
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| 81 | 81 | | POPULATION OF THE CO UNTY ARE REPRESENTED ON THE BOARD. 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | 16–408.1. 24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | AT LEAST TWICE ANNUAL LY, THE PRESIDENT OF HARFORD COMMUNITY 25 |
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| 86 | 86 | | COLLEGE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 26 |
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| 87 | 87 | | SHALL MEET TO DISCUS S ISSUES OF MUTUAL CONCERN. 27 |
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| 89 | 89 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect June 28 |
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| 90 | 90 | | 1, 2024. 29 |
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