Bill > HB154

This bill, known as the Local Boards of Education Transparency Act, enhances the requirements of the Open Meetings Act for county boards of education and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, ensuring greater public access to their proceedings. Specifically, it mandates that these boards must provide live video streaming of their open meetings if they are held at their headquarters or at a location where they have held at least five meetings in the preceding year. Furthermore, the bill requires these boards to maintain complete and unedited archived video recordings of all open meetings that were live-streamed on their respective websites for a minimum of five years after the meeting date, with exceptions allowing for the removal of pornographic, obscene, or student privacy-violating content, provided the Open Meetings Law Compliance Board is notified of any edits. This legislation aims to increase transparency by making meeting content more accessible to the public for an extended period.

Budget and Finance, Education

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0154?ys=2026RS