2026 Regular Session
HB154
Open Meetings Act - County Boards of Education - Enhanced Requirements (Local Boards of Education Transparency Act)
Earlier-session bill · introduced 2025
Establishing enhanced requirements under the Open Meetings Act for county boards of education and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; requiring county boards and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to maintain on their respective websites an archived video recording of each open meeting for which live video streaming was made available for a minimum of 5 years after the meeting; authorizing county boards and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to edit certain content from the recordings; etc.
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Recorded floor votes
3 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
February 26, 2026 · House
Third Reading Passed
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
133 yea–0 nay · 3 not voting · 5 absent
April 8, 2026 · Senate
Floor Amendment 793028/1 (Senator Ready) Adopted
Passed
24 yea–20 nay · 1 not voting · 2 absent
April 8, 2026 · Senate
Third Readings Passed with Amendments
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
41 yea–0 nay · 3 not voting · 3 absent
Committee referrals
February 27, 2026 · Senate
Education, Energy, and the Environment
January 14, 2026 · House
Ways and Means
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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Senate Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Feldman) Adopted
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Senate Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Kagan) Adopted
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Senate House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Vogel and Hornberger)
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Senate House Requests Senate Recede
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Senate House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
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House House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Vogel and Hornberger)
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House House Requests Senate Recede
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House House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
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Senate Third Readings Passed with Amendments (41-0)
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Senate Floor Amendment {793028/1 (Senator Ready) Adopted (24-20)
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Senate Second Reading Passed
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Senate Favorable Adopted
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Senate Motion Special Order until 4/6 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
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Senate Favorable
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Senate Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
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Senate Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment
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House Third Reading Passed (133-0) View roll call
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House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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House Motion Special Order until 2/25 (Delegate Grammer) Adopted
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House Favorable with Amendments {473125/1 Adopted
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House Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
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House Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
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House First Reading Ways and Means
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House Pre-filed