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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 | | *hb1075* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 1075 |
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| 8 | 8 | | F3, G1 5lr2843 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegate J. Long |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: February 5, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Ways and Means |
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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 | | Calvert County Board of Education – Elections for Members Representing 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Specific Districts – Alterations 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | FOR the purpose of requiring that members of the Calvert County Board of Education 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | representing certain districts be elected only by the voters of that district; and 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | generally relating to the election of members of the Calvert County Board of 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Education. 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Article – Education 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 3–301(b) 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 12 |
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| 32 | 32 | | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 13 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Article – Education 14 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Section 3–301(d) 15 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 16 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 17 |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MAR YLAND, 18 |
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| 39 | 39 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 19 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Article – Education 20 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 3–301. 21 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (b) The five voting members of the Calvert County Board shall be elected at a 22 |
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| 46 | 46 | | general election as required by subsections (d) and (f) of this section. 23 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2 HOUSE BILL 1075 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (d) (1) Of the five voting members of the county board: 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | [(1)] (I) One shall be elected from each of the three county commissioner 2 |
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| 53 | 53 | | districts, ELECTED ONLY BY THE VOTERS OF THAT DISTR ICT; and 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | [(2)] (II) Two shall be elected from the county at large. 4 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) (I) AS APPLICABLE FOR THAT COUNTY COMMISSIONER 5 |
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| 58 | 58 | | DISTRICT, AT THE GENERAL ELECT ION, THE BALLOT SHALL PRO VIDE THE VOTER 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | WITH THE CHOICE TO C AST A VOTE “FOR” A CANDIDATE FOR ELEC TION FROM THAT 7 |
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| 60 | 60 | | DISTRICT. 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (II) AFTER THE ELECTION RE SULTS ARE CERTIFIED , THE STATE 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL DECLA RE FOR EACH DISTRICT WHETHER A 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | CANDIDATE HAS BEEN E LECTED. 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 1, 2025. 13 |
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