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HB523 - Criminal Procedure – Expungement of Records – Good Cause
Malcolm Ruff, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause.
STATUS
Introduced
HB448 - Korean American Day
Courtney Watson, Mark S. Chang, Nick Allen
Last updated 6 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January 13 as Korean American Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge certain organizations to observe Korean American Day properly.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB11 - Workforce Development and Adult Learning - Leasing Training Program - Establishment
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Leasing Training Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to train, prepare, and connect job seekers with careers in the residential rental housing industry; requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to administer the Program and award $250,000 annually in grants to eligible designated partnerships; requiring the Governor to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 for the program; requiring a certain report by January 1 each year; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB165 - Local Government – Annual Audit Reporting Requirements – Alterations
Jazz Lewis
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring 20% of certain State aid for highway user revenues and disparity grants to be discontinued if a county, municipality, or special taxing district does not submit a certain audit report within 2 calendar years after the deadline for the report, subject to a certain condition; and applying the Act beginning with the fiscal year 2024 audits that are required to be submitted under certain provisions of law.
STATUS
Passed
HB493 - State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Faculty, Part-Time Faculty, Post Doctoral Associates, and Graduate Assistants
Linda Foley, Mary A. Lehman, Gabriel Acevero
Last updated 8 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants; and altering the application of certain collective bargaining laws to supervisory, managerial, and confidential employees of a State institution of higher education.
STATUS
Introduced
HB609 - Education - Public Libraries - Collective Bargaining (Library Workers Empowerment Act)
Jared Scott Solomon, Steven Craig Johnson, Catherine M. Forbes
Last updated 5 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in good faith bargaining; establishing a collective bargaining process for employees of public libraries; prohibiting employers and employee organizations from engaging in certain actions regarding the exercise of an employee's rights under the Act; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB855 - Juvenile Law - Restrictive Housing - Limitations
Juanita Sandra Bartlett, Jazz Lewis
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a minor in restrictive housing at the minor's request.
STATUS
Introduced
HB935 - Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act
Bernice Mireku-North, Emily Khoury Shetty, Jazz Lewis
Last updated 8 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB853 - Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation
Nick Allen, Vaughn Stewart, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 7 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Altering a prohibition concerning the maximum penalty for the late payment of rent that a landlord may charge in a residential lease to prohibit a penalty in excess of 5% of the amount of the unpaid rent rather than of the amount due.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB892 - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation
Aaron M. Kaufman, Lauren Arikan, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploitation, isolation, or any other means; prohibiting a person from aiding, abetting, or conspiring with one or more persons to violate a certain provision of the Act; establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Maryland district HD-024
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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