Sen. Lashrecse Aird

Commending John Ray Grisham, Jr.

Celebrating the life of Shawn Soares.

Commending the Honorable Dr. Luke E. Torian.

Commending Margaret L. Sanner.

Commending Xcellerated Offshore.

Commending Harrison A. Moody.

Public school funding; At-Risk Program established. Establishes the At-Risk Program, defined in the bill as any state funding provided for programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation or pursuant to the at-risk add-on for the purpose of supporting programs for students who are educationally at risk. The bill requires (i) the determination of the amount of state funding for which a school division is eligible pursuant to the At-Risk Program to be based on the school division's identified student percentage, defined in the bill as the fraction, expressed as a percentage, that results from dividing the number of identified students enrolled in a school division by the total number of students enrolled in such school division, weighted by the factor of 1.5, and then adjusted by the addition of a percentage that corrects for undercounting English language learner students as identified students and (ii) such funding to be distributed as follows: 60 percent on a flat per-student rate and 40 percent on a variable rate set out in the general appropriation act based on the concentration of poverty in the school division. The bill provides that any school division that would have received more state funds for the at-risk add-on and programs of prevention, intervention, or remediation than it would pursuant to the consolidation of such state funding sources under the At-Risk Program established in the bill shall be held harmless and shall not have its share of such state funding reduced, effective for the 2024–2025 school year through the 2026–2027 school year. This bill was incorporated into SB 105.

Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations district court related to prosecutions of criminal offenses.

Chief Medical Examiner; Maternal Mortality ReviewTeam; work group; expansion plan; report. Directs the Officeof the Chief Medical Examiner and the Maternal Mortality Review Teamto convene a work group to expand the work of the Maternal MortalityReview Team. The bill directs the work group to develop criteriaand procedures related to the collection of maternal morbidity data.The bill specifies that the Maternal Mortality Review Team's expansionplan shall include certain plans for data collection, data review, and development and implementation of policies and recommendations.The work group is required to report its findings and provide itsplan to the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations andHealth, Welfare and Institutions and the Senate Committees on Financeand Appropriations and Education and Health by December 1, 2025.

Expungement and sealing of juvenile court records.Provides for the sealing of juvenile court records in those instanceswhere a juvenile was found guilty of a delinquent act that wouldbe a felony if committed by an adult and such juvenile has attainedthe age of 18 years and three years have elapsed since the date ofthe last hearing in the case of such juvenile. Under current law,such records are open to the public. The bill also provides thatany juvenile court records that may be expunged shall be expungedwhen the juvenile who is the subject of the records has attainedthe age of 18 years and three years have elapsed since the date ofthe last hearing in the case of such juvenile. Under current law,such juvenile shall have attained the age of 19 years and five yearsshall have elapsed since the date of the last hearing in the caseof such juvenile.