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HB598 - Discrimination - Military Status - Prohibition
Adrian Boafo, Nick Allen, Charlotte Agnes Crutchfield
Last updated 5 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
STATUS
Passed
HB523 - Criminal Procedure – Expungement of Records – Good Cause
Malcolm Ruff, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause.
STATUS
Introduced
HB718 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Seniors - Minimum Benefit
Jeffrie E. Long, Kevin M. Harris, Melissa Wells
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State to provide a benefit of at least $40 under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to a household that includes an individual who is at least 65 years old and has a gross annual household income that does not exceed $50,000.
STATUS
Introduced
HB890 - Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication
Aaron M. Kaufman, Marlon Amprey, Mark Edelson
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information each year; requiring the Department to maintain a risk ratio and State comparison threshold of 2.0 to be used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices; and requiring the Department to report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools.
STATUS
Introduced
HB903 - Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established
Vanessa Atterbeary, Michael J. Griffith, Dalya Attar
Last updated 5 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB892 - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation
Aaron M. Kaufman, Lauren Arikan, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploitation, isolation, or any other means; prohibiting a person from aiding, abetting, or conspiring with one or more persons to violate a certain provision of the Act; establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB970 - Real Property - Residential Leases - Rent Increase Prohibition
Melissa Wells
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent during a certain lease term if the landlord violates a requirement that the landlord provide notification of an increase in rent; and prohibiting a landlord from taking certain retaliatory actions as a result of the inability to increase the tenant's rent.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB301 - Correctional Services - Diminution of a Term of Confinement - First-Degree Rape and First-Degree Sexual Offense (Pava Marie LaPere Act)
Elizabeth M. Embry, Jackie Addison, Nick Allen
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for first degree rape or first degree sexual offense as first degree sexual offense existed prior to October 1, 2017, from being entitled to diminution of the incarcerated individual's term of confinement.
STATUS
Introduced
HB385 - Wage Payment and Collection - Pay Stubs and Pay Statements - Required Information
Jeffrie E. Long, Adrian Boafo, Marlon Amprey
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or online pay statement and include certain information; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to create and make available to an employer at no charge a pay stub template that may be used by an employer to comply with the Act; and establishing a certain administrative penalty.
STATUS
Passed
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
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-040
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
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