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HB187 - Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving
Sheila Ruth, Regina T. Boyce, Michele Guyton
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a final report by December 1, 2025 with recommendations on actions, interventions, and policies that could reduce aggressive and reckless driving and include recommended legislation to be introduced in the 2026 legislative session.
STATUS
Introduced
HB538 - Land Use – Affordable Housing – Zoning Density and Permitting (Housing Expansion and Affordability Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 5 months ago
48 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in a zoning district that allows single-family residential uses under certain circumstances; requiring local jurisdictions to allow an increase in density of certain qualified projects in certain districts or zones for certain properties; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB86 - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Bronchodilators - Use, Availability, Training, and Policies
Regina T. Boyce, Mary A. Lehman, Aletheia McCaskill
Last updated 5 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with certain groups, to develop training for certain school personnel to identify symptoms of anaphylaxis, asthma, and respiratory distress in students; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with county boards, and authorizing nonpublic schools to establish a policy to obtain, administer, and train certain school personnel to administer emergency bronchodilators to a student who is determined to be, or is perceived to be, experiencing asthma-related symptoms; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB219 - Natural Resources - Removal of Trees or Shrubs - Notice and Objection
Michele Guyton, Sheila Ruth
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a utility or local government to remove a tree or shrub on certain private property under certain circumstances, including requiring the utility or local government to provide certain notice to the owner of the property on which the tree or shrub is located; establishing a process for a private property owner who receives certain notice to file an objection with the Department of Natural Resources in accordance with certain requirements; 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
HB83 - Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Natalie Ziegler, Regina T. Boyce, Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
STATUS
Introduced
HB29 - Real Property - Transfer to Heir - Exemption From Prepayment
Terri Hill, Mary A. Lehman, Sheila Ruth
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain requirements for the prepayment of certain real property taxes do not apply to an instrument of writing transferring real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir of the decedent.
STATUS
Introduced
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
HB379 - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition
Sara Norris Love, Mary A. Lehman, Nick Allen
Last updated 5 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,000 per violation.
STATUS
Passed
HB357 - Agriculture - Confinement of Egg-Laying Hens in Commercial Egg Production - Prohibitions
Jennifer Terrasa, Mary A. Lehman, Nick Allen
Last updated 9 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products under certain circumstances on and after January 1, 2026; and specifying that a certain certification be obtained in a certain manner to sell shell eggs and egg products.
STATUS
Introduced
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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