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HB597 - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act
Nick Allen, Tiffany T. Alston, Marlon Amprey
Last updated 5 months ago
59 Co-Sponsors
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; altering the eligibility criteria and the types of grants to be awarded under the Program; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop certain mental health wellness policies to be implemented in certain law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB694 - Governor's Office for Children - Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) Grant Program (ENOUGH Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 8 months ago
55 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiring the Office to assign certain staff for a certain purpose; establishing certain reporting and evaluation requirements; establishing the ENOUGH Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Governor to appropriate $15,000,000 to the fund for fiscal year 2026; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB258 - Renewable Energy - Customer-Sited Solar Program
Lily Qi
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program within the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating system and providing grants to eligible customer-generators for certain solar energy generating systems; authorizing a third party to apply for a grant on behalf of an eligible customer-generator under certain circumstances; and providing for the funding of Program grants from certain compliance fee and allowance proceeds in the Strategic Energy Investment Fund.
STATUS
Introduced
HB265 - Insurance - Producer Licensing Requirements - Education and Experience
Lily Qi
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Repealing the requirements for education and experience for licensing of certain insurance producers, including producers for property and casualty insurance, life insurance, health insurance, annuities, and related products.
STATUS
Passed
HB864 - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plans
Brian M. Crosby, Lily Qi
Last updated 5 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain programs and services and superseding certain existing energy efficiency and conservation goals; requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a working group to study and make recommendations on extending certain program assistance to certain moderate-income households; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB731 - Natural Gas - Strategic Infrastructure Development and Enhancement (Ratepayer Protection Act)
Elizabeth M. Embry, Lily Qi, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; and altering the required findings of the Commission in considering whether to approve a certain infrastructure replacement plan.
STATUS
Introduced
HB263 - State Highway Administration - Sidewalks and Bicycle Pathways - Maintenance and Repair
Lily Qi
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the State Highway Administration to maintain and repair certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways instead of the political subdivision in which the sidewalks and bicycle pathways are located; requiring the Administration to maintain and repair sidewalks adjacent to State highways; and requiring the political subdivision in which certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways are located to remove snow and ice from those sidewalks and bicycle pathways.
STATUS
Introduced
HB457 - Environment - Synthetic Turf - Disclosure and Study
Mary A. Lehman, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 5 months ago
58 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with representatives of the industry, local environmental and community stakeholders, and synthetic turf producers, retailers, and users, to conduct a study on the synthetic turf industry in the State and report its findings to certain committees of the General Assembly by July 1, 2026.
STATUS
Passed
HB344 - Transportation - Vision Zero - Implementation
Julie Palakovich Carr, Lorig Charkoudian, Elizabeth M. Embry
Last updated 6 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the status of Vision Zero, the activities, findings, and recommendations of the Vision Zero coordinator, and certain meetings held in the previous year; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB257 - Election Law - Affiliating With a Party and Voting - Unaffiliated Voters
Lily Qi
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-015
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Lily Qi was born in Shanghai, China. Her father was put into a labor camp when she was 5 year old for being part of the student movement. At age 16, she came to the U.S. as an exchange student. She worked multiple jobs to pay for community college. She went on to earn BS and Master's degrees in Engineering. Qi started as a product engineer with General Motors and went on to hold executive positions managing billion dollar enterprises. She established the Center for Innovation at the University of Maryland to connect university research with the private sector and federal labs to commercialize technologies.read less
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