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HB581 - State Government - Permits, Licenses, and Certificates - Processing (Transparent Government Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 5 months ago
69 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each department and independent unit to post certain completed information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates on the website of each department or independent unit by October 1, 2025; and establishing the Government Efficiency Commission.
STATUS
Passed
HB604 - Families Serve Act of 2024
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 7 months ago
52 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 military spouses and veterans of uniformed services.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB580 - Time to Serve Act of 2024
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 6 months ago
63 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
HB584 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders (Caring for Public Employees in the Safety Professions - CAPES Act)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 6 months ago
62 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is compensable under workers' compensation law.
STATUS
Passed
HB866 - Off–Highway Recreational Vehicle Trail Fund and Off–Highway Recreational Vehicle Recreation Oversight Board – Alterations and Establishment
Jason C. Buckel
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Off-Highway Recreational Vehicle Trail Fund; establishing the Off-Highway Recreational Vehicle Recreation Oversight Board to advise the Secretary of Natural Resources on certain matters and review and approve certain expenditures; and altering the percentages of the revenue from a certain excise tax the Comptroller is required to distribute to the Off-Highway Recreational Vehicle Trail Fund in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and each year thereafter.
STATUS
Introduced
HB973 - Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback
William Valentine, Jason C. Buckel, Susan K McComas
Last updated 5 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Adding positive community feedback that was not solicited by the police officer who is the subject of the feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop a process for citizens to submit positive community feedback; requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt the uniform citizen positive community feedback process; and requiring a law enforcement agency to maintain a certain record that is subject to public inspection.
STATUS
Passed
HB903 - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established
Vanessa Atterbeary, Michael J. Griffith, Dalya Attar
Last updated 5 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB894 - Procurement - Scrutinized Entities - Prohibition
Brian Alan Chisholm, Lauren Arikan, Jason C. Buckel
Last updated 7 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting an entity owned, operated, or controlled by the government of certain countries subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations from participating in any procurement with the State, a local government in the State, a public instrumentality in the State, or any governmental unit in the State; requiring the Board of Public Works to make certain determinations and maintain and publish a certain list of scrutinized entities; preempting any local ordinance, rule, or regulation that conflicts with the Act; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB885 - Agricultural Land and Programs - People's Republic of China
Brian Alan Chisholm, Mark N Fisher, Lauren Arikan
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a nonresident alien who is a citizen of the People's Republic of China, a commercial enterprise or business incorporated in the People's Republic of China, and an individual employed by or associated with the government of the People's Republic of China from purchasing agricultural land or participating in certain agricultural programs.
STATUS
Introduced
HB872 - Election Law – Campaign Materials – Disclosure of Use of Synthetic Media
Anne R Kaiser, Courtney Watson, Jason C. Buckel
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and certain other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or certain other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated, to another person in the State certain campaign materials that use or contain synthetic media include a certain disclosure in a certain manner.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Maryland district HD-001
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jason C. Buckel is from Indiana. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and History from Indiana University in 2003. He earned his J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 2009. After law school, Jason served as Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. He also worked in state government affairs. Now, Jason practices education law. He represents public school districts.read less
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