Ch. 312                                    1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1994.

Approved May 2, 1994.

CHAPTER 312
(House Bill 815)

AN ACT concerning

Education - Mandatory Kindergarten - Exemptions - Continuation

FOR the purpose of extending the termination date on certain provisions of law relating
to certain exemptions from attending kindergarten for children enrolled in licensed
child care centers, registered family day care homes, and Head Start five year old
programs; altering a certain date by which the State Department of Education must
report on the readiness of children enrolled in certain child care programs to enter
first grade; altering the school years for which certain information is required to be
reported; correcting an obsolete reference to a certain standing committee of the
General Assembly; providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally
relating to the continuation of exemptions from attending kindergarten for children
enrolled in licensed child care centers, registered family day care homes, and Head
Start five year old programs,

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 463 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1991
Section 2 and 3

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Chapter 463 of the Acts of 1991

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the State Department of
Education shall submit a report on the effect of exempting a 5 year old child from
kindergarten if the child is enrolled full-time in a licensed child care center or registered
family day care home or part-time in a Head Start 5 year old program, on or before [July
1, 1994] OCTOBER 1, 1996 to the Senate Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee
and the House [Constitutional and Administrative Law] WAYS AND MEANS Committee.
The report shall contain information on the number of 5 year old children enrolled
full-time in a licensed child care center or registered family day care home or part-time
in a Head Start 5 year old program for the school years 1992 1993 and 1993 1991
1994-1995 and 1995-1996; the qualifications of staff members working in licensed child
care centers, registered family day care homes, and Head Start programs; the extent of
in-service training of these staff members; the educational curriculum of these child care
programs; the staff/child ratios in licensed child care centers, registered family day care
homes, and Head Start programs; and the readiness of the children enrolled in these child
care programs to enter first grade.

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