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SB1056 - Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products, and Electronic Smoking Devices - Revisions (Tobacco Retail Modernization Act of 2024)
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain licensed retailers to verify an individual's date of birth before selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices in a certain manner; altering the application fee for a county license to sell cigarettes or tobacco products at retail; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1054 - Local Government - Building Permits for Residential Solar Energy and Residential Energy Storage Systems - Required Platform and Inspections
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring a county or municipality to implement a certain web-based platform for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and main electric panel alterations by August 1, 2025, except under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipality to adopt certain procedures for required inspections for a certain building permit under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1099 - Emergency Services - Automated External Defibrillator and Naloxone Co-Location Initiative - Requirements for Public Buildings
William C. Smith, Dawn D. Gile, Mary Dulany James
Last updated 4 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-located with each automated external defibrillator placed in a public building; establishing a certain immunity from liability for individuals who administer naloxone made available under the initiative in response to a known or suspected drug overdose; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1058 - Education - Curriculum Standards - Antihate and Holocaust Education (Educate to Stop the Hate Act)
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Benjamin T. Brooks, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 6 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain funds from county boards that fail to do so; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1057 - Home– and Community–Based Services Waiver – Eligibility
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income disregard up to 300% of the Supplemental Security Income monthly benefit amount and a certain community spouse resource allowance; requiring the Department to adopt regulations to establish a timeline within which the Department is required to approve or deny the application of an applicant; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1055 - Agriculture - Roosters - Restrictions
Benjamin Fred Kramer
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person from keeping more than 5 roosters per acre on a single property or more than a total of 25 roosters on a single property beginning January 1, 2026, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing the Department to work in cooperation with a local animal control or law enforcement officer to enforce the Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB958 - Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2024
Katie Fry Hester, Benjamin T. Brooks, Dawn D. Gile
Last updated 8 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue for State efforts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change and to address the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations; establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Fund to support efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change; etc.
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
SB571 - Consumer Protection – Online Products and Services – Data of Children (Maryland Kids Code)
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Katie Fry Hester, Chris West
Last updated 5 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a covered entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment on or before April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protections for certain online products; prohibiting certain data collection and sharing practices; authorizing certain monitoring practices to allow a child's parent or guardian to monitor the child's online activity or location without providing an obvious signal to the child; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB598 - State Board of Education - Membership - School Principal
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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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