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HJ6 - Commercial Fishery Disaster Declaration Due to Invasive Species
Jay A. Jacobs, Steven J. Arentz, Jason C. Buckel
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Supporting the Governor's request for a federal commercial fishery disaster declaration; and encouraging further efforts to obtain federal assistance to protect and rehabilitate the State's commercial fisheries as a result of an abundance of invasive species.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1210 - Income Tax - Credit for Cybersecurity Measures Undertaken by Small Businesses
April Rose, Steven J. Arentz, Christopher Eric Bouchat
Last updated 8 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for a certain small business that employs 50 or fewer employees for costs incurred by the small business during the taxable year for certain cybersecurity measures undertaken by the small business; making the credit refundable; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1247 - Environment – Advanced Clean Cars II Program – Application and Enforcement
Christopher Troy Adams, Jason C. Buckel, Brian Alan Chisholm
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2030; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enforcement and penalties under the California Advanced Clean Cars II Program to a motor vehicle manufacturer for failing to meet the minimum electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle delivery requirements for an applicable motor vehicle model year.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1387 - Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Premium Increases - Collisions With Wild Animals
Christopher Troy Adams, Jason C. Buckel, Brian Alan Chisholm
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium based on the claims history of an insured where two or fewer of the claims within the immediately preceding 3-year period were for accidents or losses caused by a collision with a free-roaming wild animal and for which the insured was not at fault for the loss.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1351 - Health Insurance - Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses - Long-Term Antibiotic Treatment
Seth A. Howard, Steven J. Arentz, Jason C. Buckel
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumstances; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from placing a quantitative limit on or denying coverage for benefits required under the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1344 - Income Tax - Credit for Long-Term Care Premiums
Seth A. Howard, Tiffany T. Alston, Steven J. Arentz
Last updated 8 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $250 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024, but before January 1, 2027, and a maximum of $500 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2026; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1432 - Education - Prekindergarten and Withholding of County Board Funding (Blueprint Accountability and Flexibility Act of 2024)
April Fleming Miller, Christopher Troy Adams, Steven J. Arentz
Last updated 8 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State Department of Education to exclude by annual waiver Tier I children who are 4 years old from a certain prekindergarten slot calculation; establishing a process for the Accountability and Implementation Board to withhold certain funding from a county board under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1281 - Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits
Wayne A. Hartman, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; providing that the designation of an area as a tourism zone may not preclude the area from also being designated as an arts and entertainment district; authorizing a county or municipality to exempt from the admissions and amusement tax gross receipts from certain admissions or amusement charges levied in a tourism zone; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB19 - Natural Resources - Northern Snakehead - Common Name
Todd B. Morgan, Jackie Addison, Nick Allen
Last updated 5 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
STATUS
Passed
HB1493 - Public and Nonpublic Schools – Child Sex Offenders – Prohibition on In–Person Attendance
Nino Mangione, Christopher Troy Adams, Carl Anderton
Last updated 8 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to provide alternative educational options for children prohibited from in-person attendance under the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-038
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Charles James Otto is a Republican member of the Colorado State House, representing District 38. Otto was elected to the chamber in 2016. He works as a real estate broker. Otto served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He earned his B.S. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1988. Otto and his wife, Barbara, have two children.read less
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