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SB1018 - Tobacco Product Manufacturers – Escrow Act – Alterations
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of the equity fee paid under certain circumstances; requiring a certain tobacco product manufacturer to make a certain certification to the Attorney General each year; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1017 - Correctional Services - Maryland Correctional Enterprises - Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring Maryland Correctional Enterprises to develop a plan for program participants to obtain employment after release on parole or supervised mandatory release; requiring the Division of Parole and Probation to report on individuals who participated in Maryland Correctional Enterprises programming; establishing certain procedures for appointing formerly incarcerated individuals to certain State positions; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1019 - Health Benefit Plans - Prescription Drugs - Rebates and Calculation of Cost Sharing Requirements
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by the carrier or pharmacy benefits manager for the dispensing or administration of the prescription drug; and prohibiting the disclosure of certain information concerning rebates.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1020 - Hospitals - Clinical Staffing Committees and Plans - Establishment (Safe Staffing Act of 2024)
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring each hospital licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct investigations regarding alleged violations of certain provisions of this Act; and authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission to take certain actions if the Commission determines a violation has occurred.
STATUS
Introduced
SB476 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is compensable under workers' compensation law.
STATUS
Passed
SB169 - Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program and Fund
Cheryl C. Kagan, Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey
Last updated 7 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB453 - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
Pamela G Beidle, Karen Lewis Young, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a program; and requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings.
STATUS
Passed
SB1178 - Higher Education - Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship - Repeal of Service Terminal Date
Jack Bailey, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 5 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
STATUS
Passed
SB938 - Maryland Department of Health - Public Education Campaign on Prostate, Lung, and Breast Cancer Prevention
Malcolm L. Augustine, Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast cancer; requiring the Department to implement the public education campaign on or before January 1, 2027; requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, to include an appropriation to the Department for the public education campaign from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB59 - Hospitals - Care of Infants After Discharge (Safe Sleep Act of 2024)
Arthur Ellis, Cory V. McCray, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 4 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or legal guardian on how to provide a safe sleep environment and providing a list of resources available for an infant's parent or legal guardian; requiring each hospital, by January 1, 2025, to establish a process for providing and confirming the receipt of the educational resources; etc.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-022
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Alonzo T. Washington is running for election for South Carolina State House District 81. Alonzo was a professional basketball player for ten years before practicing law for three decades. Alonzo served in the United States Army. He earned his Bachelors from the University of California, Berkley and his JD from University of Southern California Law School. Alonzo served as a Florence County Councilman. Alonzo and his wife Dianne have four daughters.read less
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