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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
SB481 - Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024
Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks, Jill P Carter
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that are followed by the Department of Housing and Community Development and public housing agencies for providing vouchers and housing assistance payments to families; limiting the maximum security deposit required by a residential lease to 1 month's rent; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB475 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center to submit a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence to the Governor and General Assembly on or before May 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB585 - Boating Accidents - Duty to Remain at the Scene, Render Assistance, and Provide Information - Penalties
Bryan Warner Simonaire, Benjamin T. Brooks, Jason C. Gallion
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; establishing certain criminal penalties for the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty who does not return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty or render certain assistance and provide certain information; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB478 - Families Serve Act of 2024
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for eligible spouses and veterans of certain uniformed services.
STATUS
Passed
SB477 - Time to Serve Act of 2024
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management may provide for uniformed services training or active uniformed services duty in a reserve unit of the armed forces or organized militia.
STATUS
Passed
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
SB88 - Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families
Dawn D. Gile, Pamela G Beidle, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 6 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislative and budgetary recommendations; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB628 - State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees
Dawn D. Gile, Benjamin T. Brooks, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Altering the purposes of the Catastrophic Event Account and the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to provide financial assistance to noncivilian federal employees.
STATUS
Passed
SB58 - Income Tax - Senior Credit - Alterations
Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering, under certain circumstances, eligibility for and the value of a credit against the State income tax for certain residents who are at least 65 years old.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-010
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Benjamin T. Brooks is from Alabama. He earned his BFA from the University of Alabama. Brooks served on active duty in the U.S. Army. After active duty, he joined the Alabama National Guard. Brooks achieved the rank of Captain before retiring from military service. He worked in the mortgage industry before running for political office.read less
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Maryland Senate from Maryland
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