Committee endorses bill to let schools note traumatic parental loss on transcripts
The committee voted 4-0 to support House Bill 1310, which would allow high-school students who lose a parent to certain reproductive cancers to request a 'traumatic loss' notation on official transcripts to provide context for academic impacts; the act would take effect July 1, 2026.
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Staff summarized House Bill 1310, which would permit a notation on a student's official transcript to reflect the traumatic loss of a parent due to certain reproductive cancers and would require local school systems to add the notation upon written request and verifying documentation. The Maryland State Department of Education would develop privacy-protective standardized language and counselors would be required to inform eligible students.
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