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SB644 - Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Just Cause Termination Provisions
Charles Anthony Muse, Jill P Carter, Charles E. Sydnor
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB621 - County Police Accountability Boards - Investigation of Complaints of Police Misconduct
Jill P Carter
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the local governing body of a county, including Baltimore City, to authorize its police accountability board to exercise investigatory and subpoena powers; and authorizing a police accountability board to conduct an investigation of police misconduct concurrently with a law enforcement agency investigating the complaint.
STATUS
Introduced
SB624 - Task Force to Study Public Information Act Requests Made to Law Enforcement – Establishment
Jill P Carter
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Task Force to Study Public Information Act Requests Made to Law Enforcement to review costs charged and procedures applied by law enforcement agencies in relation to the disclosure of records requested under the Maryland Public Information Act; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report on or before December 31, 2024, and a final report on or before December 31, 2025, of its findings to the General Assembly.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB619 - Criminal Law - Cannabis-Related Offenses - Civil Penalties
Jill P Carter
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Substituting civil penalties in place of criminal penalties for certain offenses relating to possessing, possessing with the intent to distribute, and cultivating cannabis and manufacturing cannabis products.
STATUS
Introduced
SB503 - Vehicle Laws - Protective Headgear Requirement - Exception (In Remembrance of Gary "Pappy" Boward)
Mike McKay, Justin D Ready, Johnny Ray Salling
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has completed a certain motorcycle safety course and for the individual's passenger.
STATUS
Introduced
SB475 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center to submit a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence to the Governor and General Assembly on or before May 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB481 - Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024
Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks, Jill P Carter
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that are followed by the Department of Housing and Community Development and public housing agencies for providing vouchers and housing assistance payments to families; limiting the maximum security deposit required by a residential lease to 1 month's rent; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB479 - Motor Vehicles - Work Zone Speed Control Systems - Revisions (Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Jill P Carter
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be manned or unmanned and a system operator does not need to be present when a work zone speed control system is in use; altering the maximum penalty for a civil citation issued as a result of a recorded image produced by a work zone speed control system; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB477 - Time to Serve Act of 2024
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
25 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
SB453 - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
Pamela G Beidle, Karen Lewis Young, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a program; and requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-041
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jill P. Carter is a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 41. She was first elected to the chamber in 2003. Carter earned her B.A. in English from Loyola College in Maryland in 1987. She went on to receive her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1990. Carter worked as an attorney before joining the House of Delegates. She served on the Baltimore City Council from 1999 to 2003.read less
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Maryland Senate from Maryland
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