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SB396 - Criminal Procedure - Stops and Searches - Cannabis Odor and Admission of Evidence (Drug-Free Roadways Act of 2024)
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidence discovered or obtained in violation of a certain provision of law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB381 - Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness In Girls' Sports Act)
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, Paul Corderman
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB378 - Criminal Law - Theft of a Handgun
Chris West, Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Ronald Lorenzo Watson
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; and establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both.
STATUS
Introduced
SB700 - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Membership - 9-1-1 Specialists
Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing certain individuals who are employed as 9-1-1 specialists and certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as employees of a participating governmental unit.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1091 - Education – Blind and Visually Impaired Students – Textbook Equity
Ronald Lorenzo Watson, Chris West, Nancy King
Last updated 4 months ago
8 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 by students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide instructional 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 to a certain entity; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1053 - Fisheries - Striped Bass - Closed Season
Johnny Mautz, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from catching or attempting to catch striped bass or striped bass hybrids in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from March 1 through May 15, inclusive, in any year for which the Department does not establish a spring trophy season for striped bass; and establishing an exception for the closed striped bass season to the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to manage the striped bass fishery under a fisheries management plan.
STATUS
Introduced
SB967 - Higher Education - Part-Time Senatorial and Delegate Scholarships - Alterations
Craig Zucker, Brian J. Feldman, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 5 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Allowing an applicant of a part-time senatorial or delegate scholarship with a documented disability to request from the Maryland Higher Education Commission a waiver from the requirement to carry at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester.
STATUS
Passed
SB1099 - Emergency Services - Automated External Defibrillator and Naloxone Co-Location Initiative - Requirements for Public Buildings
William C. Smith, Dawn D. Gile, Mary Dulany James
Last updated 4 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-located with each automated external defibrillator placed in a public building; establishing a certain immunity from liability for individuals who administer naloxone made available under the initiative in response to a known or suspected drug overdose; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB961 - Wicomico County - Vehicle Laws - Prohibition on Roadway Solicitations
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Johnny Mautz
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle.
STATUS
Introduced
SB976 - Vehicle Laws - Annual Vehicle Shows - Motor and Trailer Homes
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Chris West
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a certain limitation on an exemption for motor or trailer home dealers, and salesmen employed by dealers, from restrictions on the number of annual vehicle shows in which dealers or salesmen may participate.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-038
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Mary Elizabeth Carozza is the State Senator for Maryland's 38th District. She previously served four terms in the Maryland House of Delegates. Carozza holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a juris doctor. She was an attorney in private practice before entering politics. Carozza currently serves on several legislative committees including the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review and the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee. She is working on issues related to healthcare, transportation, small business, and the environment.read less
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Maryland Senate from Maryland
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