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HB836 - Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects - Impact Assessments and Workgroup (Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2024)
Mark Edelson, Elizabeth M. Embry, Linda Foley
Last updated 6 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under certain circumstances; establishing the Workgroup to Study Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects to make certain recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2024, related to certain impact assessments and mitigation plans; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB794 - Regulated Firearms - Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Process
David H. Moon, Eric D. Ebersole, Jazz Lewis
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024; prohibiting a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a regulated firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB405 - Family Law - Child Custody Evaluators - Qualifications and Training
Aaron M. Kaufman, Nick Allen, Lauren Arikan
Last updated 8 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under certain circumstances; and requiring a court, in any action in which child support, custody, or visitation is at issue to provide information to the parties regarding the role, availability, and cost of a custody evaluator.
STATUS
Introduced
HB64 - Motor Vehicle Excise Tax - Tax Credit for Electric Vehicles - Eligibility
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering eligibility for the vehicle excise tax credit for the purchase of certain electric vehicles to include certain vehicles purchased used and titled on or after July 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2027.
STATUS
Introduced
HB198 - Transportation - WMATA Operating Assistance - Alteration (Maryland Metro Funding Act of 2024)
Marc Alan Korman, Jazz Lewis
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Repealing, for certain fiscal years, the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation withhold 35% of the State's share of annual operating grants for the Washington Suburban Transit District if the State's operating assistance provided in the approved Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority budget increases by more than 3% over the total operating assistance provided in the prior fiscal year.
STATUS
Passed
HB179 - Indigenous Peoples' Day - Rule of Interpretation and Replacement of Columbus Day
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Replacing references to Columbus Day in certain provisions of law with references to Indigenous Peoples' Day; and establishing that Indigenous Peoples' Day is to be observed on October 12 or, if the United States Congress designates another day for the observance of Columbus Day, the day designated by the United States Congress.
STATUS
Introduced
HB114 - Arbitration Reform for State Employees Act of 2024
Jazz Lewis, Kevin M. Harris, Jared Scott Solomon
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Altering the collective bargaining process for State employees, including by requiring the selection of a neutral arbitrator to oversee all aspects of collective bargaining, establishing a process of arbitration in the event of impasse, and providing that certain decisions of a neutral arbitrator are advisory; requiring that each budget bill contain the appropriations necessary to implement all terms and conditions of employment in certain memoranda of understanding for the next ensuing fiscal year; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB33 - Economic Development - Entrepreneurial Leave Tax Credit Program
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Entrepreneurial Leave Tax Credit Program in the Department of Commerce to encourage employers to implement leave policies that provide unpaid leave for employees for the purpose of establishing or expanding an employee business in the State; requiring the Department to conduct research on the benefits of entrepreneurship, the creation of leave policies, and the utilization of entrepreneurial leave by employees; and allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain employers.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4 - Institutions of Higher Education - Admissions Standards - Prohibition on Consideration of Legacy Preference or Donor Preference
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference or donor preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to ask applicants for information regarding familial relationships to alums of the institution for data collection purposes.
STATUS
Passed
HB155 - Maryland Energy Administration - Carbon Capture Opportunity Program - Establishment
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses in the State engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to use existing resources to administer the Program, establish application procedures, provide technical assistance to participating businesses, assist participants in applying for federal and private grant funding, and publicize the availability of the Program.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-024
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
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