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SB169 - Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program and Fund
Cheryl C. Kagan, Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey
Last updated 7 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB181 - Qualifying Nonprofit Organizations - Training and Reentry Services - Funding
Cory V. McCray, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 4 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automotive repair to incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals; and requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to administer the grant funds.
STATUS
Passed
SB615 - General Provisions - Commemorative Days - Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day
Bryan Warner Simonaire, Justin D Ready, Johnny Ray Salling
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim September 30 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day.
STATUS
Passed
SB207 - Natural Resources - Northern Snakehead - Common Name
Jack Bailey, J.B. Jennings
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
STATUS
Passed
SB1145 - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Child Sex Offenders - Prohibition on In-Person Attendance
Johnny Ray Salling, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; 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
Engrossed
SB574 - Sales and Use Tax Exemption - Aircraft Parts and Equipment - Repeal of Reporting Requirement and Extension of Sunset
Paul Corderman, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 4 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a certain reporting requirement relating to an exemption from the sales and use tax for certain materials, parts, and equipment used to repair, maintain, or upgrade aircraft or certain aircraft systems; and extending the termination date of the exemption from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2030.
STATUS
Passed
SB580 - Sales and Use Tax - Nonprofit Organizations Maintaining Memorials - Exemption
Guy J Guzzone, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 4 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to a sale by a nonprofit organization that maintains a memorial on property that is owned by the State if the proceeds of the sale are used to maintain a memorial on property that is owned by the State.
STATUS
Passed
SB578 - Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding
Guy J Guzzone, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 4 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
STATUS
Passed
SB1178 - Higher Education - Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship - Repeal of Service Terminal Date
Jack Bailey, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 5 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
STATUS
Passed
SB1182 - Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Veterinary and Health Care Professionals
J.B. Jennings
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the State; and applying the Act retroactively.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-007
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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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