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HB157 - Public Schools - Appropriations for School Safety Expenditures - Increase (School Safety Enhancement Act of 2024)
Michael J. Griffith
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Beginning in fiscal year 2026, increasing from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 an annual appropriation to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems and local law enforcement agencies to assist in meeting an annual reporting requirement on law enforcement coverage in public schools.
STATUS
Introduced
HB377 - Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations
Bernice Mireku-North, Dalya Attar, Regina T. Boyce
Last updated 9 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the fiscal years, to begin in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB178 - Vehicle Laws - Disabled Veteran Registration Plates - Issuance
Michael J. Griffith
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue certain special disabled veteran registration plates to disabled veterans who are between 50% and 99%, inclusive, service-connected disabled as designated or classified by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; prohibiting the Administration from charging certain persons the fee required for replacement registration plates under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB310 - Safe Communities Act of 2024
Jason C. Buckel, Christopher Troy Adams, Carl Anderton
Last updated 9 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB316 - Crimes and Corrections - Penalties and Procedures (Violent Firearms Offender Act of 2024)
William Valentine, Christopher Troy Adams, Carl Anderton
Last updated 9 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a certain inmate with a certain reentry kit and assistance in obtaining Medicaid benefits under certain circumstances; altering the elements of certain prohibitions against using a certain firearm in the commission of a certain crime; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB331 - Election Law - Candidate Expenditures - Campaign-Related Caregiving Expenses
Michele Guyton, Nick Allen, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 7 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving services" as direct care, protection, and supervision of a child or an individual with a disability for whom a candidate has direct caregiving responsibility.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB98 - Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Deafblind Co-Navigation Services Program - Established
Aaron M. Kaufman, Dalya Attar, Michael J. Griffith
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing a Deafblind Co-Navigation Services Program in the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to provide co-navigation services at no cost to deafblind individuals in the State; and defining Co-Navigation Services as services providing visual and environmental information or sighted services to assist with communication accessibility in an individual's preferred language and communication mode, and to assist with accessing an individual's physical surroundings and making informed decisions about those surroundings.
STATUS
Introduced
HB347 - General Assembly Vacancy - Political Party Central Committees - Procedures
Julie Palakovich Carr, Michael J. Griffith
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, and voting; and requiring a member of the central committee who has applied to fill the vacancy to recuse themselves from voting on the individual to fill the vacancy.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB604 - Families Serve Act of 2024
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 7 months ago
52 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for eligible military spouses and veterans of uniformed services.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB484 - Constitutional Amendment - Fee or Tax Rate Increases - Yea and Nay Vote of General Assembly Required (Taxpayer Disclosure and Protection Act)
Nino Mangione, Lauren Arikan, Terry L. Baker
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a certain increase of a State fee or the rate of a State tax from taking effect unless the General Assembly, by a yea and nay vote, explicitly approves the increased fee or tax rate.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-035
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Michael J. Griffith is running for the Arizona State Senate. He currently serves on the Arizona House Of Representatives. Griffith is the CEO of the Griffith Companies. He has a bachelor's degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Arizona. Griffith is involved in many community organizations and formerly served as President of the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association.read less
OFFICES HELD
Maryland House from Maryland
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