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SB509 - Commercial Financing - Small Business Truth in Lending Act
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB431 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumption - Long COVID (Home of the Brave Act of 2024)
Jeff D. Waldstreicher, Sarah K. Elfreth, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
STATUS
Introduced
SB436 - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Penalties and Referrals
Dawn D. Gile, William C. Ferguson, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of Labor certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB528 - Income Tax - Credit for Nonpublic School Student Bus Transportation Expenses
Shelly Hettleman, Benjamin Fred Kramer, Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year; prohibiting a tax credit from exceed $1,500 per school student; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB760 - Consumer Protection - Retail Sales of Gift Cards (Gift Card Scams Prevention Act of 2024)
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a certain merchant to provide training to all employees of the merchant on identifying and responding to gift card fraud; requiring the Division of Consumer Protection to create a certain notice and issue certain guidelines regarding gift card fraud; requiring a certain third-party gift card reseller to record and maintain a copy of certain information for at least 3 years; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB784 - Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act
Sarah K. Elfreth, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB761 - Testing Facilities That Use Animals - Licensing and Regulation
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Clarence K. Lam, Karen Lewis Young
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes and performing certain procedures on dogs or cats; prohibiting a testing facility from using traditional animal test methods under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB825 - Health Facilities - Delegation of Inspection Authority - Nursing Homes
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to conduct site visits and full surveys of nursing homes; and requiring that the Maryland Department of Health and certain counties equally share the costs of conducting site visits and full surveys delegated by the Secretary under the Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB823 - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Faculty, Part-Time Faculty, Post Doctoral Associates, and Graduate Assistants
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Joanne C. Benson, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants; and altering the application of certain collective bargaining laws to supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees of a State institution of higher education.
STATUS
Introduced
SB822 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - State Law Enforcement Officers
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Chris West, Jack Bailey
Last updated 4 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceeds the State's crime rate; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Passed
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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