HB 562·MD·house
Primary and Secondary Education - Maintenance of Effort - Inflation Adjustment (Maintenance of Effort Modernization Act)
FailedFiled Jan 28, 2026
Sponsor: Feldmark
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Hearing (House)
Feb 24, 2026
Summary
HB 562 changes how Maryland counties calculate the "maintenance of effort" for public schools. Counties must now increase their school appropriations each year by an inflation factor, defined by specific price indexes or capped at 5%. The goal is to keep school funding in step with rising costs.
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- Appropriations — Bill HearingAppropriations · Feb 24, 2026
History
- Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- Reassigned to Appropriations
- First Reading Ways and Means
Sponsors
- Feldmark · sponsor
- Acevero
- Allen
- Boyce
- Coley
- Fair
- Hill
- Kaiser
- Pasteur
- Solomon
- Terrasa
- Ziegler
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