Healthy, High Performance School Facilities:

Developments in State Policy

Maryland

Citation: Maryland Education Code §5-312 
Available: Law

This law establishes that a new school receiving state public school construction funds must be constructed as a high-performance building. The law defines a high-performance building as one that meets the LEED Silver rating, or a comparable rating of another nationally recognized standard approved by the state. The law established that, from 2010-2014, the state would pay 50% of the local share of the increased costs of constructing the school to meet the new standard. The law also directed the Interagency Commission on School Construction to adopt regulations to implement the law. 

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