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HB804 - Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption
Robin L. Grammer, Tiffany T. Alston, Steven J. Arentz
Last updated 8 months ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a psychiatric health care facility or to offer psychiatric or other mental health services at a health care facility.
STATUS
Introduced
HB789 - Primary and Secondary Education - Public School Employees - Salaries
Jessica Feldmark, Eric D. Ebersole, Terri Hill
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
STATUS
Introduced
HB797 - Criminal Law – Money Laundering
Lesley J. Lopez, Christopher Eric Bouchat, Linda Foley
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to promote a certain crime or with the intent to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of proceeds of a certain crime, from taking certain actions with respect to the proceeds derived from a certain crime; establishing certain penalties if the person violates the law prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with respect to the proceeds derived from a certain drug crime in certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB662 - Large Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Child Care Teachers - Minimum Age
Michele Guyton, Jessica Feldmark, Pamela Lanman Guzzone
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that certain regulations governing the registration and operation of large family child care homes and the licensing and operation of child care centers require that child care teachers be at least 18 years old.
STATUS
Passed
HB696 - Primary and Secondary Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Universal Expansion Report
Julie Palakovich Carr, Nick Allen, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 months ago
62 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB76 - Health Occupations - Pharmacists - Administration of Vaccines
Lesley J. Lopez, Tiffany T. Alston, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 5 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals at least 3 years old; and altering the circumstances under which a pharmacist may administer certain vaccinations.
STATUS
Passed
HB377 - Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations
Bernice Mireku-North, Dalya Attar, Regina T. Boyce
Last updated 9 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the fiscal years, to begin in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB576 - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
Steven Craig Johnson, Nick Allen, Tiffany T. Alston
Last updated 5 months ago
70 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings; etc.
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
HB432 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings and Criminal Procedure - Technical Corrections - References to Intellectual Disability
Aaron M. Kaufman, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 5 months ago
60 Co-Sponsors
Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-039
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Lesley J. Lopez is Vice President for Policy at the Public Leadership Institute. Ms. Lopez writes model legislation at the state and local level and develops messaging strategies on issues such as education, immigration, and reproductive rights that are used throughout the country. Prior to joining PLI, Ms. Lopez was a Policy Analyst with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). At NCLR, she focused on federal legislation and policy around issues affecting the Hispanic community including education, health, housing, immigration, workforce development and asset building.read less
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