High school students now sit on more than a half a dozen local school boards across the state, but legislation being heard in the current session in Annapolis may affect the quality of their vote.Student board of education members say they not only represent the voice of their classmates, but their eyes and the ears as well.Local school boards have been faced with major decisions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic -- decisions that affect tens of thousands of students -- but now it's students who sit on those boards who are trying to protect their right to vote. Student board members are concerned about House Bill 629 which would prohibit a student member from being the deciding vote on any matter being decided by a county school board.“I really just think this is an unintended consequence that created some gridlock that we need to get rid of,” Del. Reid Novotny, R-Howard and Carroll counties, said. “This was just the easiest way to make a small change to not take away the rights of the student member just make this small change so we can move forward to whatever the crisis of the day is.”A small change that's getting a lot of push back from state student council leaders.“This one sentence bill threatens everything we have spent building up since decades ago,” Charles County Board of Education student member Ian Herd said.And that's why they're putting up a fight to try and defeat House Bill 629.“That really tells students that their voices don't matter as much as adults and it really disempowers how students should be able to feel,” Maryland Association of Student Councils President Carmelli Leal said.“It seems like a very brash response to the students simply not supporting what you want,” Herd said.“Each county can decide what that student member can vote on. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be an even amount of people and that's why I proposed this anti-gridlock legislation,” Novotny said.Two Howard County parents are suing the board of education over the voting rights of its student board member, saying his appointment is unconstitutional.Their attorney in the matter told 11 News about the recently filed bill, “I think the frustrations that we exposed through our litigation inspired Del. Novotny to prose the legislation.”Student groups said they're keeping a close watch on the legislation while at the same time try and drum up more statewide support.