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SB748 - Income Tax - Alteration of Brackets and Rates (Economic Prosperity Act of 2024)
Paul Corderman, Stephen S Hershey, Justin D Ready
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
SB841 - Transportation - Motor Fuel Tax Rates, Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Tax, and Farebox Recovery Requirements (Transportation Equity, Fairness, and Privacy Act of 2024)
Justin D Ready, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; requiring that the Maryland Transit Administration achieve a certain farebox recovery requirement for certain transit services; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB819 - Public Schools - School Resource Officers - Firearms Required
J.B. Jennings, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned.
STATUS
Introduced
SB869 - Property Tax - Improvements on Agricultural Land - Assessment
Guy J Guzzone, Sarah K. Elfreth, Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings is completed; creating a subclass of real property consisting of improvements on agricultural land; requiring improvements on agricultural land to be assessed in a certain manner; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB381 - Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness In Girls' Sports Act)
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, Paul Corderman
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB692 - Cybersecurity - Workgroup to Study Data Security - Establishment
J.B. Jennings, Stephen S Hershey, Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Data Security to study certain data protection standards, identify existing standards that would best be assimilated by State agencies, and develop recommendations on and assess certain fiscal impacts; and requiring the Workgroup to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by June 30, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB108 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Police Auxiliary and Reserve Volunteers
Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson, Paul Corderman
Last updated 6 months ago
13 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; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Passed
SB897 - Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, William Folden
Last updated 5 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Allowing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for the payment of a death benefit under a collective bargaining agreement from a county or municipality in the State to the surviving spouse or other beneficiary of a law enforcement officer or fire fighter whose death arises out of or in the course of employment as a law enforcement officer or fire fighter; and applying the Act retroactively to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.
STATUS
Passed
SB822 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - State Law Enforcement Officers
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Chris West, Jack Bailey
Last updated 4 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceeds the State's crime rate; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Passed
SB604 - Judges' Retirement System - Special Death Benefit
Paul Corderman, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 5 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Establishing a line-of-duty special death benefit for members of the Judges' Retirement System; providing for health benefits for a surviving spouse, child, or dependent parent who is receiving a special death benefit for the death of a member of the Judges' Retirement System; and providing for the retroactive application of the Act to any member of the Judges' Retirement System who is killed prior to the effective date of the Act.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-007
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
J.B. Jennings is a Republican member of the Maryland State Senate, representing District 7. Jennings was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 2010. He currently serves as the Minority Leader. Jennings graduated from James Madison University with a degree in business administration. He went on to earn a master's of business administration from Mount St. Mary's University. Jennings has worked as a program specialist for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and as vice president of his family's business.read less
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Maryland Senate from Maryland
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