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Appropriations Committee advances four House bills, withdraws one
Summary
The Appropriations Committee approved four House bills — including adjustments to education funding formulas, a $2,000,000 funding substitution for long-term care ombudsman support, expanded scholarship eligibility, and a one-year foster care transition grant starting FY28 — and withdrew House Bill 1215 as unfavorable.
The Appropriations Committee held a voting session and approved four House bills while withdrawing one as unfavorable.
Delegate Smith, speaking when HB 490 was called, summarized the bill as "concerning the blueprint for Maryland's future in various fiscal revisions," and described amendments that extend the compensatory-education enrollment calculation through fiscal 2029, remove certain dual-enrollment and workforce-development changes and transfer them to a separate bill, and require the State Board of Education and MSDE to report on methodologies for counting…
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