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HB110 - Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Private Review Agents
Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take certain actions before issuing an adverse decision; and specifying the procedure for private review agents to follow when making decisions related to mental health and substance use disorder benefits.
STATUS
Introduced
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
HB139 - Landlord and Tenant - Notice of Utility Bills in Residential Leases - Gas and Electric Services
Lorig Charkoudian, Nick Allen, Linda Foley
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more residential units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, before the initiation of a lease and each term thereafter, notifying the tenant of the total utility costs billed to the landlord in the immediately preceding year, disaggregated by utility type; and applying certain requirements relating to payment of utility services to landlords of buildings that contain five or fewer residential dwelling units.
STATUS
Passed
HB163 - Food Waste and Solid Waste Reduction - Grants, Fund, and Surcharge
Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; requiring the Department of the Environment to use funds from the Reduce, Recycle, Remanufacture Fund to support the Grant Program to Reduce and Compost School Waste; authorizing the Department to establish a statewide solid waste disposal surcharge; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB513 - Motor Vehicles - Work Zone Speed Control Systems - Revisions (Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 6 months ago
58 Co-Sponsors
Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that 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 an image from a work zone speed control system; requiring the State Highway Administration to make a certain report; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB538 - Land Use – Affordable Housing – Zoning Density and Permitting (Housing Expansion and Affordability Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 5 months ago
48 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in a zoning district that allows single-family residential uses under certain circumstances; requiring local jurisdictions to allow an increase in density of certain qualified projects in certain districts or zones for certain properties; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB305 - Outdoor Lighting - Standards and Use of State Funds
Jheanelle K. Wilkins, Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2025, to develop outdoor lighting standards that consider energy consumption, the environment, and public health and safety; requiring the Department to consult with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the State Highway Administration in developing the standards; prohibiting the use of State funds for the installation or replacement of certain permanent outdoor luminaires in certain areas under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB567 - Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024
Sara Norris Love, Kriselda Valderrama, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 5 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to establish a method for a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subject to enforcement and penalties under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HJ1 - Affirming the Federal Equal Rights Amendment
Edith Jerry Patterson, Lesley J. Lopez, Jackie Addison
Last updated 9 months ago
74 Co-Sponsors
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment.
STATUS
Introduced
HB583 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 5 months ago
53 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 to the Governor and the General Assembly by May 1, 2025, a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence; etc.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-020
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Lorig Charkoudian is a candidate for the Maryland State House of Delegates District 20. She has served as the Executive Director of Community Mediation Maryland since 2014, working to make mediation accessible across Maryland as an alternative to the judicial system. Charkoudian previously worked for the KIPP DC charter school network as Chief of Staff. She also worked at the Conflict Resolution Center in Baltimore. Charkoudian earned her Master’s degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University.read less
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Maryland House from Maryland
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