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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
CHAPTER 457
(Senate Bill 226)
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Ch. 457
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AN ACT concerning
Education - Technology for Education Program - Nonvisual Access
Equivalent Access for Students with Disabilities
FOR the purpose of requiring the State Superintendent of Education and the
Department of Business and Economic Development to include a certain clause
in any contract or grant awarded under the Technology for Education Program;
specifying requirements that are to be included in the clause; specifying certain
alternatives requiring the State and each local school system to ensure that
equivalent access standards are included in certain grant and procurement
contract specifications and in certain guidelines concerning certain instructional
products; requiring the State or local school system, after evaluating certain
products, to select certain products that meet certain specifications; providing
for an exemption from the required selection of certain products that meet
certain standards; requiring the State or a local school system to implement
certain alternative methods of instruction under certain circumstances;
requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations; requiring
the State Department of Education to monitor compliance with certain
requirements and report to the General Assembly each year on or before a certain
date; defining a certain term; providing for the application of certain provisions
of this Act; defining certain terms; providing for the application of this Act to
certain technology; and generally relating to certain requirements regarding
technology that is developed or obtained for classroom use in certain schools the
provision of equivalent access to technology in the Technology for Education
Program for students with disabilities.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, adding to
Article - Education
Section 7-901 and 8-408 7-910
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume)
BY adding to repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 7-901 and 7-910 8-408
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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