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HB836 - Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects - Impact Assessments and Workgroup (Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2024)
Mark Edelson, Elizabeth M. Embry, Linda Foley
Last updated 6 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under certain circumstances; establishing the Workgroup to Study Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects to make certain recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2024, related to certain impact assessments and mitigation plans; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HJ3 - Use of Nuclear Weapons
Nicole A. Williams, Gabriel Acevero, Kris Fair
Last updated 8 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congressional Delegation who have not yet done so to cosponsor House Resolution 77 relating to the use of nuclear weapons; and urging the U.S. President and the U.S. Senate to endorse the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
STATUS
Introduced
HB841 - Environment - Plastic Bottle Waste Reduction - Water Bottle Filling Stations and Reporting
Sheila Ruth, Nick Allen, Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 7 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for providing drinking water on or before October 1, 2025; and requiring the Department, on or before December 1, 2025, to submit the survey and alternative methods to the Governor and the General Assembly.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB696 - Primary and Secondary Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Universal Expansion Report
Julie Palakovich Carr, Nick Allen, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 months ago
62 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB615 - Education - Prohibited Behavior on School Grounds and Property - Application
Sheila Ruth, Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offenses at another institution while participating in or attending a sporting event or other extracurricular program sponsored at that institution.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB620 - Education - Sexual Abuse and Assault Awareness and Prevention Program - Human and Sex Trafficking
Steven Craig Johnson, Nick Allen, Robin L. Grammer
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB148 - Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act)
Eric D. Ebersole, Nick Allen, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of human trafficking victims; requiring, by January 1, 2025, and each January 1 thereafter, employers to certify that all their employees have completed the training; requiring employers to provide a new employee with the required training within 90 days after the date of hire; requiring employers to establish certain reporting procedures; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB133 - Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland
Christopher Eric Bouchat, Regina T. Boyce, Terri Hill
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland; requiring the Commission to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army; requiring the Commission to make certain recommendations regarding the funding, design, construction, and location of an appropriate memorial dedicated to African American Civil War soldiers; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendation to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB85 - Department of Agriculture - Spay/Neuter Fund
Mary A. Lehman, Sheila Ruth, Aaron M. Kaufman
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional consideration to certain competitive grant proposals that meet certain criteria; and increasing the fee on commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by dogs or cats and registered in the State beginning October 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB181 - Failure to Pay Rent Proceedings - Shielding of Court Records
Terri Hill, Sheila Ruth, Jennifer Terrasa
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the District Court to shield all court records within 60 days after the final resolution of a failure to pay rent proceeding under certain circumstances; authorizing the District Court to shield all court records relating to a failure to pay rent proceeding, on motion by a tenant, under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to publish a form titled "Petition to Shield a Failure to Pay Rent Action Record" by October 1, 2024; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Maryland district HD-044
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Sheila Ruth is running for Colorado State Senate District 25. She was born and raised in rural Colorado. Ruth graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor's degree in secondary social studies education. She taught social studies and coached cross country. Ruth serves on the Board of the Weld County Farm Bureau. Her priorities are individual liberties, free enterprise, private property rights, and limited government spending and regulation.read less
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