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HB1642 • 2026

Higher Education - Transformative Economic Efficiency - Framework and Standards

Higher Education - Transformative Economic Efficiency - Framework and Standards

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Delegates Buckel , Hill , and McComas
Last action
2026-02-25
Official status
In the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
Effective date
2026-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Higher Education - Transformative Economic Efficiency - Framework and Standards

Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a framework for transformative economic efficiency for the purpose of optimizing independent continuous learning and encouraging transformative economic efficiency through the development and utilization of independent consensus-based standards; and requring the Commission to develop, post on its website, and periodically update independent consensus-based standards to encourage transformative economic efficiency.

What This Bill Does

  • Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a framework for transformative economic efficiency for the purpose of optimizing independent continuous learning and encouraging transformative economic efficiency through the development and utilization of independent consensus-based standards; and requring the Commission to develop, post on its website, and periodically update independent consensus-based standards to encourage transformative economic efficiency.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-25 House

    First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations

  2. Maryland General Assembly

    Text - First - Higher Education - Transformative Economic Efficiency - Framework and Standards

Official Summary Text

Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a framework for transformative economic efficiency for the purpose of optimizing independent continuous learning and encouraging transformative economic efficiency through the development and utilization of independent consensus-based standards; and requring the Commission to develop, post on its website, and periodically update independent consensus-based standards to encourage transformative economic efficiency.

Current Bill Text

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*hb1642*

HOUSE BILL 1642
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By: Delegates Buckel, Hill, and McComas
Introduced and read first time: February 25, 2026
Assigned to: Rules and Executive Nominations

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ACT concerning 1

Higher Education – Transformative Economic Efficiency – Framework and 2
Standards 3

FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a 4
framework for t ransformative economic efficiency for a certain purpose ; requiring 5
the Commission to develop, post on its website, and periodically update independent 6
consensus–based standards to encourage transformative economic efficiency; and 7
generally relating to transformative economic efficiency. 8

BY adding to 9
Article – Education 10
Section 11–409 11
Annotated Code of Maryland 12
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 13

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 14
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 15

Article – Education 16

11–409. 17

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE F OLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS 18
INDICATED. 19

(2) “INDEPENDENT CONSENSUS–BASED S TANDARDS” MEANS 20
METHODOLOGIES, SPECIFICATIONS, REGULATORY SOLUTIONS , AND TECHNICAL 21
STANDARDS DEVELOPED COLLABORATIVELY BY INSTITUTIONS OF H IGHER 22
EDUCATION, RESEARCH ENTITIES , OR STAKEHOLDER GROUP S THROUGH A 23
STRUCTURED PROCESS. 24
2 HOUSE BILL 1642

(3) “TRANSFORMATIVE ECONOM IC EFFICIENCY ” MEANS 1
MEASURABLE IMPROVEME NT IN ECONOMIC PERFO RMANCE, RESOURCE 2
UTILIZATION, AND HEALTH RISK PREVENTI ON ACHIEVED THROUGH EDUCATION 3
AND RESEARCH–INFORMED PRACTICES. 4

(B) (1) THE COMMISSION SHALL ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK FOR 5
TRANSFORMATIVE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY. 6

(2) THE PURPOSE OF THE FR AMEWORK IS TO O PTIMIZE 7
INDEPENDENT CONTINUO US LEARN ING AND ENCOURAGE TRANSFORMA TIVE 8
ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY THROUGH THE DEVELOPM ENT AND UTILIZATION OF 9
INDEPENDENT CONSENSUS–BASED STANDARDS. 10

(C) THE COMMISSION SHALL DEVELOP THE INDEPEND ENT 11
CONSENSUS–BASED STANDARDS BY: 12

(1) RELYING ON INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND REPRODUCIBLE 13
DATA; 14

(2) UTILIZING INDEPENDENT VERIFICA TION, VALIDATION, AND 15
CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; AND 16

(3) SEEKING CONSENSUS AMONG STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING: 17

(I) INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; 18

(II) COMMUNITY–BASED RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; AND 19

(III) RELEVANT SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS. 20

(D) THE COMMISSION SHALL: 21

(1) POST THE INDEPENDENT CONSENSUS–BASED STANDARDS ON ITS 22
WEBSITE; AND 23

(2) PERIODICALLY UPDATE T HE INDEPENDENT CONSE NSUS–BASED 24
STANDARDS. 25

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 26
1, 2026. 27