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SB718 - Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program and Advisory Committee - Establishment
Clarence K. Lam, Mike McKay
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support students in licensed practical nursing education programs who intend to practice nursing as a career in the State; requiring the Secretary of Higher Education to issue grants to at least two pilot sites on or before July 1, 2025; requiring the Secretary, on or before each December 15 annually through 2029, to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the implementation of the Program; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB590 - Human Relations - Discrimination - Protected Characteristics
Clarence K. Lam, Ariana M. Kelly
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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
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
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
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
SJ1 - Affirming the Federal Equal Rights Amendment
Ariana M. Kelly, Pamela G Beidle, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 6 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment.
STATUS
Enrolled
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
SB479 - Motor Vehicles - Work Zone Speed Control Systems - Revisions (Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Jill P Carter
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be manned or unmanned and a system operator does not need to be present when a work zone speed control system is in use; altering the maximum penalty for a civil citation issued as a result of a recorded image produced by a work zone speed control system; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJ2 - Use of Nuclear Weapons
Jill P Carter, Clarence K. Lam, Charles Anthony Muse
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congressional Delegation who have not yet done so to cosponsor House Resolution 77 relating to the use of nuclear weapons; and urging the U.S. President and the U.S. Senate to endorse the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-012
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Clarence K. Lam is a member of the Democratic party. He serves in the Maryland State Senate representing District 12. Lam has served District 12 since 2011. Lam attended the University of Chicago for his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. He earned his Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Lam currently resides in Howard County, Maryland, where he lives with his wife and children.read less
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