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HB582 - Economic Development - Entrepreneurial Innovation Programs - Establishment (Pava LaPere Legacy of Innovation Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Carl Anderton
Last updated 5 months ago
42 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson Metropolitan Statistical Area; establishing the Baltimore Innovation Initiative Pilot Program within the Maryland Innovation Initiative of the Corporation; requiring certain appropriations for the programs to be included in the annual budget bill in certain fiscal years; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB736 - Health Insurance and Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Coverage - Opioid Reversal Drugs and Products (NARCAN Price Cap Act)
Joe Vogel, Jackie Addison, Nick Allen
Last updated 8 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the complete or partial reversal of an opioid overdose without imposing a copayment or coinsurance requirement that exceeds $10 per package.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1000 - Real Property - Residential Contracts of Sale - Buyer Privacy Rights
Malcolm Ruff
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a contract of sale for single-family residential real property from containing the name of an individual buyer prior to acceptance of the contract of sale by the seller; and applying the Act prospectively.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1007 - Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2024
Julie Palakovich Carr, Jheanelle K. Wilkins, Mary A. Lehman
Last updated 8 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; requiring that certain sales of tangible personal property be included in the numerator of the sales factor used for apportioning a corporation's income to the State under certain circumstances; altering the State income tax rate on Maryland taxable income of certain individuals; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB492 - Baltimore City - Speed Monitoring Systems on Interstate 83 - Unpaid and Overdue Citations
Samuel I Rosenberg, Dalya Attar, Malcolm Ruff
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring Baltimore City to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration for purposes of imposing administrative sanctions if an owner or a driver of a vehicle accumulates more than $250 of unpaid and overdue fines for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore City.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1138 - State Facilities - Procedures for Changes and Closures - Definition and Reporting
Samuel I Rosenberg, Dalya Attar, Malcolm Ruff
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Specifying that requirements for purchasing, leasing, changing the use of, or closing State facilities apply to facilities owned, leased, or operated for the purpose of providing benefits to clients; and requiring the Department of Human Services, on or before August 1, 2024, to submit a report on any State facility owned, leased, or operated by the Department for the purpose of providing benefits to clients that was closed on or after January 1, 2023, to certain committees of the General Assembly.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1076 - Education - Blind and Visually Impaired Students - Textbook Equity
Denise Roberts, Karen R. Toles, Vanessa Atterbeary
Last updated 5 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year for students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide the materials in a specialized format to blind or visually impaired students; requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, certain textbook publishers to provide an electronic file of pupil edition textbooks; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1051 - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)
Jennifer White Holland, Jheanelle K. Wilkins, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 5 months ago
39 Co-Sponsors
Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring hospitals and freestanding birthing centers to participate in the Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance Program to identify risk factors and causes of Severe Maternal Morbidity; requiring the Program to report its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1035 - Real Property - Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund - Establishment
Samuel I Rosenberg, Dalya Attar, Malcolm Ruff
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund to provide grants to low-income condominium owners who live in condominiums with insufficient reserve accounts to enable a low-income unit owner to pay increased assessments necessary for a condominium association to meet reserve account funding requirements; requiring that the Fund prioritize low-income adults aged 65 years or older; and requiring by December 31 annually, low-income unit owners who received grants to make a certain report regarding the reserve account balance.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1171 - Nonprescription Drugs and Devices – Provision by Registered Nurses and Sale of Contraceptives Through Automatic Devices
Nicole A. Williams, Elizabeth M. Embry, Kris Fair
Last updated 5 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; excluding the violation of a certain provision of the Act from certain penalties; and authorizing registered nurses to provide, without a prescription, nonprescription drugs and devices in a local health department under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-041
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Malcolm Ruff is running as a Democratic candidate for State Assembly District 73 in Milwaukee. He has served on Milwaukee's County Board of Supervisors since 2016. Ruff serves on several County Board committees related to transportation, public works, and intergovernmental relations. He is an Operation Desert Storm veteran and previously worked for We Energies for over 20 years. Ruff has focused his career on expanding access to jobs and workforce development. If elected, he hopes to continue ensuring quality public education, access to healthcare, public safety, and local infrastructure improvements.read less
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Maryland House from Maryland
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