Contact Your Senator Now: Reading Screening Bill STALLED in Senate

ACTION

1. Contact your Senator and ask that they vote yes and move HB 910 as amended out of committee to the floor. 
2. The amended version is HERE
3. It is important that HB 910 pass without further amendment.  The amended bill is a compromise between advocates and school districts and further amendment could change the intent of the legislation.
4. If your Senator is on the Education Committee (see right hand column) please ask that they vote the bill out of committee now!
5. If your Senator is not on the Committee, ask that they urge their colleagues on the committee to vote the bill out of committee to the Senate floor for a vote.
6. The following Senators have previously supported HB 910 -- please ​thank them for their past support and ask that they vote yes on HB 910 when it comes to the floor.  Also encourage them to speak to Chairwoman Conway and urge her to send the bill out of committee.  The time is now to ensure that kids don't continue to fall into the reading gap. 

• Bates
• Brochin
• Conway CHAIR, FULL COMMITTEE
• Feldman
• Ferguson
• Kasemeyer
• Nathan-Pulliam
• Norman 
• Rosapepe
• Young
• Zucker

​Continuing Action

Once the bill passes out of the Senate, it is sent to the Governor for signature.  Please contact Governor Hogan (see below for contact information) and ask that he support HB 910, Students with Reading Difficulties, Early Screening and Interventions even before it reaches his desk.  It is necessary that Governor Hogan know that you support this bill and why.  ​​

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Contact Governor Hogan
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1.  Call 410-974-3901 or 1-800-811-8336 and let him know that Maryland's success depends on the literacy of its citizens and passage of the reading screening bill will help meet that goal.
2. Fill out an email contact form. In the comments section, let him know that 63% of all 8th grade Maryland students are not proficient in reading and this is unacceptable. Early screening and interventions help prevent reading failure.

All About Reading Screening & Interventions, HB 910

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RESOURCES

Links to Bill Status and Amended Language, HB 910

Questions and Answers on Maryland's Reading Screening & Interventions, House Bill 910

Reading Difficulties: Early Screening and Interventions -- House Bill 910

Update

• HB 910 passed the Ways & Means Committee unanimously on Wednesday, March 14
• It passed the House of Delegates on Friday, March 16 with 135 yeas and 1 nay -- Delegate Kittleman, Howard County, voted nay.
• 910 is still pending in the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs (EHEA) Committee and has not been scheduled for a vote.  
  
• The MDGA will adjourn at the end of the this week so there is very little time left to move this legislation.  
• EHEA Committee members are listed with an asterisk below. 
• The time is NOW!​​

​Senate Contact Information
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EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEE
Appointed by Chair, Education, Health & Environmental Affairs Committee:
Paul G. Pinsky, Chair (410) 841-3155, (301) 858-3155
Gail H. Bates
Cheryl C. Kagan
Ronald N. Young
Craig J. Zucker
Staff: Sara C. Fidler (410) 841-3661, (301) 858-3661


Full Senate: Education, Health & Environmental Affairs marked w/ asterisk:

DISTRICT 1 (Allegany, Garrett & Washington Counties)
George C. Edwards (R)
DISTRICT 2 (Washington County)
Andrew A. Serafini (R)
DISTRICT 3 (Frederick County)
*Ronald N. Young (D) 
DISTRICT 4 (Carroll & Frederick Counties)
Michael J. Hough (R)
DISTRICT 5 (Carroll County)
Justin D. Ready (R)
DISTRICT 6 (Baltimore County)
*Johnny Ray Salling (R)
DISTRICT 7 (Baltimore County & Harford County)
J. B. Jennings (R)
DISTRICT 8 (Baltimore County)
Katherine A. Klausmeier (D)
DISTRICT 9 (Carroll & Howard Counties)
*Gail H. Bates (R) 
DISTRICT 10 (Baltimore County)
Delores G. Kelley (D)
DISTRICT 11 (Baltimore County)
Robert A. (Bobby) Zirkin (D)
DISTRICT 12 (Baltimore County & Howard County)
Edward J. Kasemeyer (D)
DISTRICT 13 (Howard County)
Guy J. Guzzone (D)
DISTRICT 14 (Montgomery County)
*Craig J. Zucker (D) MEMBER ED COMMITTEE
DISTRICT 15 (Montgomery County)
Brian J. Feldman (D) 
DISTRICT 16 (Montgomery County)
Susan C. Lee (D)
DISTRICT 17 (Montgomery County)
*Cheryl C. Kagan (D)
DISTRICT 18 (Montgomery County)
Richard S. Madaleno, Jr. (D)
DISTRICT 19 (Montgomery County)
Roger Manno (D)
DISTRICT 20 (Montgomery County)
William C. Smith, Jr. (D)
DISTRICT 21 (Anne Arundel & Prince George's Counties)
James C. Rosapepe (D) 
DISTRICT 22 (Prince George's County)
*Paul G. Pinsky (D) VICE CHAIR 
DISTRICT 23 (Prince George's County)
Douglas J. J. Peters (D)
DISTRICT 24 (Prince George's County)
Joanne C. Benson (D)
DISTRICT 25 (Prince George's County)
Ulysses Currie (D)
DISTRICT 26 (Prince George's County)
C. Anthony Muse (D)
DISTRICT 27 (Calvert, Charles & Prince George's Counties)
Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. (D)
DISTRICT 28 (Charles County)
Thomas M. Middleton (D)
DISTRICT 29 (Calvert & St. Mary's Counties)
*Stephen M. Waugh (R)
DISTRICT 30 (Anne Arundel County)
John C. Astle (D)
DISTRICT 31 (Anne Arundel County)
*Bryan W. Simonaire (R)
DISTRICT 32 (Anne Arundel County)
James E. DeGrange, Sr. (D)
DISTRICT 33 (Anne Arundel County)
Edward R. Reilly (R)
DISTRICT 34 (Harford County)
Robert G. Cassilly (R)
DISTRICT 35 (Cecil & Harford Counties)
Linda S. Norman (R)
DISTRICT 36 (Caroline, Cecil, Kent & Queen Anne's Counties)
Stephen S. Hershey, Jr. (R)
DISTRICT 37 (Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot & Wicomico Counties)
Adelaide C. Eckardt (R)
DISTRICT 38 (Somerset, Wicomico & Worcester Counties)
James N. Mathias, Jr. (D)
DISTRICT 39 (Montgomery County)
Nancy J. King (D)
DISTRICT 40 (Baltimore City)
*Barbara A. Robinson (D)
DISTRICT 41 (Baltimore City)
Nathaniel T. Oaks (D) VACANT 
DISTRICT 42 (Baltimore County)
James Brochin (D)
DISTRICT 43 (Baltimore City)
*Joan Carter Conway (D) CHAIR
DISTRICT 44 (Baltimore City & Baltimore County)
*Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D) 
DISTRICT 45 (Baltimore City)
Nathaniel J. McFadden (D)
DISTRICT 46 (Baltimore City)
William C. Ferguson IV (D)
DISTRICT 47 (Prince George's County)
Victor R. Ramirez (D)
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