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HB1051 - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)
Jennifer White Holland, Jheanelle K. Wilkins, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 5 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring hospitals and freestanding birthing centers to participate in the Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance Program to identify risk factors and causes of Severe Maternal Morbidity; requiring the Program to report its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1076 - Education - Blind and Visually Impaired Students - Textbook Equity
Denise Roberts, Karen R. Toles, Vanessa Atterbeary
Last updated 5 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year for students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide the materials in a specialized format to blind or visually impaired students; requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, certain textbook publishers to provide an electronic file of pupil edition textbooks; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1522 - University of Maryland Eastern Shore - Land-Grant Institution - Funding (Land-Grant Equity and Accountability Act)
Karen R. Toles, Stephanie Smith, Jheanelle K. Wilkins
Last updated 7 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authorizing that funds made available by the Act may be used for development of infrastructure and academic programs, investment in faculty, scholarships, and certain other institutional needs.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1219 - Public and Nonpublic Middle and High Schools - Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans for Athletic Facilities (The Bailey Bullock Act)
Jessica Feldmark, Dalya Attar, Vanessa Atterbeary
Last updated 5 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that each public middle school and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; requiring each nonpublic middle school and high school that receives State funding to develop a venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities; specifying the contents of a nonpublic venue-specific emergency action plan; and requiring that the emergency action plans be reviewed and updated annually.
STATUS
Passed
HB686 - Youth Sports Programs - Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans - Requirements
Gary Simmons, Lauren Arikan, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 8 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a youth sports program to develop venue-specific emergency action plans for each facility that is used by the youth sports program during relevant athletic seasons; requiring an action plan to include the operation and use of automated external defibrillators, the provision of first aid, and coordination of care for certain injuries and severe weather conditions for practices or events; requiring the action plan to be available on the youth sports program's website; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1220 - Maryland Clean Energy Center - Climate Technology Founder's Fund
Joe Vogel, Mark Edelson, Kevin M. Harris
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to provide at least $1,200,000 in fiscal year 2025 through 2028 to the Climate Technology Founder's Fund; authorizing the Governor to transfer by June 30, 2024 up to $2,200,000 from the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account to the Climate Technology Founder's Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB646 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Police Auxiliary and Reserve Volunteers
Gary Simmons, Lauren Arikan, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Increasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer.
STATUS
Passed
HJ9 - United States of America - District of Columbia - Statehood
Jared Scott Solomon, Julian Ivey, Nick Allen
Last updated 8 months ago
63 Co-Sponsors
Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1304 - Maryland Department of Health and Department of Aging - Earned Income Tax Credit - Distribution of Information and Training
Anne R Kaiser, Gabriel Acevero, Nick Allen
Last updated 5 months ago
64 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollees in certain programs, administered by the Maryland Department of Health; and requiring the Department of Aging to provide training to the Maryland Access Point network to increase awareness of the availability of the State's earned income tax credit.
STATUS
Passed
HB1438 - Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2024
David Vincent Fraser-hidalgo, Adrian Boafo, Courtney Watson
Last updated 8 months ago
55 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 climate change; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Maryland district HD-039
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Greg Wims is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Florida's 6th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2019. Wims was born in Orlando and graduated from Florida A&M University. Prior to his election, Wims served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He also founded a small business consulting firm. In Congress, Wims serves on the Agriculture and Veterans' Affairs Committees. He focuses policy priorities on agriculture, veterans, small business, and criminal justice reform.read less
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Maryland House from Maryland
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