| 28 | | - | FOR the purpose of requiring, beginning in a certain school year, certain students to submit 4 |
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| 29 | | - | a certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; requiring the State 5 |
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| 30 | | - | Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, 6 |
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| 31 | | - | to adopt certain regulations and to develop and disseminate a certain form to county 7 |
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| 32 | | - | boards of education and certain parents and guardians; requiring the State 8 |
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| 33 | | - | Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in 9 |
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| 34 | | - | publishing certain information on dental health in a certain manner; and generally 10 |
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| 35 | | - | relating to public schools and a certificate of dental health. 11 |
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| 21 | + | FOR the purpose of requiring, beginning in a certain school year, certain students to submit 3 |
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| 22 | + | a certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; requiring the State 4 |
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| 23 | + | Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, 5 |
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| 24 | + | to adopt certain regulations and to develop and disseminate a certain form to county 6 |
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| 25 | + | boards of education and certain parents and guardians; and generally relating to 7 |
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| 26 | + | public schools and a certificate of dental health. 8 |
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| 43 | | - | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 17 |
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| 44 | | - | Article – Education 18 |
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| 45 | | - | Section 4–111.2 19 |
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| 46 | | - | Annotated Code of Maryland 20 |
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| 47 | | - | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 21 |
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| 34 | + | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14 |
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| 35 | + | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15 |
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| 36 | + | |
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| 37 | + | Article – Education 16 |
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| 38 | + | |
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| 39 | + | 7–402.1. 17 |
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| 40 | + | |
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| 41 | + | (A) BEGINNING IN THE 2026–2027 SCHOOL YEAR , EACH STUDENT 18 |
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| 42 | + | ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECOND ARY SCHOOL IN THE STATE SHALL 19 |
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| 43 | + | SUBMIT TO THE SCHOOL A CERTIFICATE OF DEN TAL HEALTH ON A SCHE DULE 20 |
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| 44 | + | ESTABLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT . 21 |
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| 45 | + | |
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| 46 | + | (B) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL : 22 |
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| 58 | | - | (A) BEGINNING IN THE 2026–2027 SCHOOL YEAR , EACH STUDENT 5 |
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| 59 | | - | ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECOND ARY SCHOOL IN THE STATE SHALL 6 |
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| 60 | | - | SUBMIT TO THE SCHOOL A CERTIFICATE OF DENTAL HEALTH ON A S CHEDULE 7 |
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| 61 | | - | ESTABLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT . 8 |
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| 58 | + | (2) DEVELOP AND DIS SEMINATE A STANDARD FORM FOR A 6 |
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| 59 | + | CERTIFICATE OF DENTA L HEALTH AS REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS 7 |
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| 60 | + | SECTION TO THE COUNT Y BOARDS AND THE PAR ENTS AND GUARDIANS O F STUDENTS 8 |
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| 61 | + | IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL S. 9 |
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| 65 | | - | (1) IN CONSULTATION WITH THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF 10 |
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| 66 | | - | HEALTH, ADOPT REGULATIONS TO ESTABLISH: 11 |
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| 67 | | - | |
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| 68 | | - | (I) STANDARDS FOR PERIODI C DENTAL EXAMINATION S; AND 12 |
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| 69 | | - | |
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| 70 | | - | (II) A SCHEDULE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF A CERTIFICATE OF 13 |
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| 71 | | - | DENTAL HEALTH BY STU DENTS; AND 14 |
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| 72 | | - | |
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| 73 | | - | (2) DEVELOP AND DISSEMINA TE A STANDARD FORM F OR A 15 |
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| 74 | | - | CERTIFICATE OF DENTA L HEALTH AS REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS 16 |
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| 75 | | - | SECTION TO THE COUNT Y BOARDS AND THE PAR ENTS AND GUARDIANS O F STUDENTS 17 |
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| 76 | | - | IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL S. 18 |
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| 77 | | - | |
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| 78 | | - | 4–111.2. 19 |
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| 79 | | - | |
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| 80 | | - | The Department shall: 20 |
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| 81 | | - | |
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| 82 | | - | (1) Support and facilitate oral health education, including oral disease 21 |
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| 83 | | - | prevention and dental health promotion, in every county; 22 |
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| 84 | | - | |
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| 85 | | - | (2) Develop a process to monitor implementation of oral health education; 23 |
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| 86 | | - | [and] 24 |
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| 87 | | - | |
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| 88 | | - | (3) SUPPORT AND FACILITAT E EACH COUNTY BOARD IN PUBLISHING 25 |
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| 89 | | - | INFORMATION ON FINAN CIALLY ACCESSIBLE DE NTAL HEALTH AVAILABL E IN THE 26 |
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| 90 | | - | COUNTY IN STUDENT HA NDBOOKS AND ON LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEM WEBSITES ; AND 27 |
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| 91 | | - | |
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| 92 | | - | [(3)] (4) On or before December 1, 2015, and every 5 years thereafter, 28 |
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| 93 | | - | submit to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the 29 |
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| 94 | | - | General Assembly a summary of the information reported by the Department to the State 30 |
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| 95 | | - | Superintendent during the certification of the Health Education State Curriculum. 31 HOUSE BILL 167 3 |
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| 99 | | - | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 1 |
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| 100 | | - | October 1, 2024. 2 |
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| 104 | | - | Approved: |
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| 105 | | - | ________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 106 | | - | Governor. |
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| 107 | | - | ________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 108 | | - | Speaker of the House of Delegates. |
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| 109 | | - | ________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 110 | | - | President of the Senate. |
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