PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 350

(7)     Selection of school administrative leadership shall be a decision by the
local school superintendent with the concurrence of the State Superintendent.

(8)     Nothing in this section shall require that any particular school system be
required to accept a grant from or otherwise participate in the Schools for Success
Challenge Grant Program.

(c) The Department shall collect and, in accordance with § 2-1213 of the State
Government Article, report to the General Assembly by October 1, 1995 a final
accountability report on each school that receives a challenge grant, with interim annual
reports submitted by December 31 of 1992, 1993, and 1994 based upon progress toward
outcome attainment.

Chapter 210 of the Acts of 1992

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1992. It shall be effective for a period of [3] 6 years and, at the end of June 30,
[1995] 1998 with no further action required by the General Assembly, this act shall be
abrogated and of no further force and effect.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1995.

Approved May 18, 1995.

CHAPTER 350
(House Bill 132)

AN ACT concerning

Education - Duty of Person with Legal Custody or Care and Control of a Child to Compel

School Attendance

FOR the purpose of eliminating modifying the requirement that a person have "control"
over a child in order to have a duty to see that the child attends school; providing
that a person who has legal custody or care and control of a child has that duty;
providing an increased maximum penalty for a second or subsequent conviction for
failure to see that a child in a person's legal custody or care and control attends
school; and generally relating to the duty of a person with custody or care and
control of a child to see that the child attends school.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Education
Section 7-301(a), (b), and (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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