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Appropriations Committee approves six bills in brief voting session
Summary
The Appropriations Committee approved six bills in a voting session that advanced measures on higher-education data for pregnant and parenting students, exemptions for certain religious schools, expanded procurement thresholds at the Maryland Environmental Service, tuition assistance for service members, artist copyright protections for state-commissioned art, and a "Purple Colleges" program for military-connected students.
The Appropriations Committee held a voting session and approved six bills, advancing measures on student data collection, procurement thresholds, tuition assistance for military-connected students, protections for artists in state public art contracts and a voluntary campus program for military-connected students.
The committee approved House Bill 6, which authorizes the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) to collect information on pregnant and parenting students and — by amendment — share that data with the Maryland Longitudinal Data Center to integrate those records into a larger outcome-analysis repository. "This amendment will ensure that the data being collected by MHEC could also be shared with the Maryland Longitudinal Longitudinal Data Center," Delegate Smith said during the presentation of the bill.
Why it matters: supporters said integrated data will inform outcomes and program…
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