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SB715 - State and Private Construction Contracts and State Procurement Contracts – Prompt Payment and Interest Requirements
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Dawn D. Gile, Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoiced, to send a certain notification to the contractor; requiring a contract between a contractor and a subcontractor on a private or State construction contract to include a provision requiring the contractor to pay the subcontractor within 7 days after receipt of payment; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB714 - State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Members
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Stephen S Hershey
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor to appoint the licensed audiologist members to the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists from a list submitted by the Maryland Academy of Audiology rather than by the Board.
STATUS
Passed
SB600 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Dental Services - Coverage and Rate Study
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of including removable full and partial dentures and setting adequate reimbursement rates for providers on a per-patient basis for house calls and extended care facility calls among the coverage offered by the Maryland Healthy Smiles Dental Program; and requiring the Department to report its findings from the study to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB599 - Developmental Disabilities – Community Providers – Federal Participation for Local Funds
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilities; and requiring the Department to allocate the federal financial participation to the community providers to which the county or municipality general funds were appropriated.
STATUS
Introduced
SB738 - Freedom to Read Act
Nancy King, Pamela G Beidle, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school library media program; prohibiting a county board of education from dismissing, demoting, suspending, disciplining, reassigning, transferring, or otherwise retaliating against certain school library media program personnel for performing their job duties consistent with certain standards; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB713 - Security Systems Technicians - Applicants - Authority to Practice
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing that an applicant for registration to provide security systems services may provide security system services and have access to circumventional information if the applicant applied for registration, received an application number confirming receipt, and the application was not rejected by the Secretary of Labor.
STATUS
Introduced
SB591 - Education - Public Libraries - Collective Bargaining (Library Workers Empowerment Act)
Clarence K. Lam, Katherine Ann Klausmeier, Guy J Guzzone
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in good faith bargaining; establishing a collective bargaining process for employees of certain public libraries; prohibiting employers and employee organizations from engaging in certain actions regarding the exercise of an employee's rights under the Act; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB545 - Primary and Secondary Education - Public School Employees - Salaries
Sarah K. Elfreth, Dawn D. Gile, Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 8 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for all public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
STATUS
Introduced
SB346 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Military Retirement Income (Keep Our Heroes Home Act)
Sarah K. Elfreth, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Phasing in, over a period of 3 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income beginning in taxable year 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
SB398 - Criminal Injuries Compensation Board - Victims of Nonfatal Strangulation
William Folden, Benjamin Fred Kramer, Justin D Ready
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulation without charge; and specifying that "strangulation" includes strangulation that is not related to rape, sexual offense, or sexual abuse.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-019
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Benjamin Fred Kramer is the current State Attorney for Florida's 19th judicial circuit. He began serving in this role on January 3, 2017 after being elected on November 8, 2016. Prior to becoming State Attorney, Kramer worked as an assistant state attorney in the 19th judicial circuit for over 20 years. He has prosecuted cases involving white collar crime, identity theft, narcotics trafficking, violent crimes, and crimes against children. Kramer graduated from Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in 1994. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida in 1990.read less
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Maryland Senate from Maryland
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