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SB714 - State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Members
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Stephen S Hershey
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor to appoint the licensed audiologist members to the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists from a list submitted by the Maryland Academy of Audiology rather than by the Board.
STATUS
Passed
SB594 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Coverage for the Treatment of Obesity - Required Study
Stephen S Hershey
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the impact of requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; requiring the study to identify and compare obesity coverage in other states and examine and estimate any potential savings that may result from requiring obesity coverage; and requiring the Department to report its findings to the House Health and Government Operations Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on or before December 31, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB39 - Gun Theft Felony Act of 2024
Justin D Ready, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 for a second or subsequent offense.
STATUS
Introduced
SB453 - Mental Health - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Programs
Pamela G Beidle, Karen Lewis Young, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a program; and requiring the Office of the Public Defender to provide representation in assisted outpatient treatment proceedings.
STATUS
Passed
SB477 - Time to Serve Act of 2024
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management may provide for uniformed services training or active uniformed services duty in a reserve unit of the armed forces or organized militia.
STATUS
Passed
SB478 - Families Serve Act of 2024
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
25 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 spouses and veterans of certain uniformed services.
STATUS
Passed
SB510 - Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits
Stephen S Hershey, Johnny Mautz
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to nonprofit, charitable organizations.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB552 - Operating Budget - Funding - Scholarships for Nonpublic School Students
Paul Corderman, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in the annual budget bill General Fund appropriations of certain amounts for the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program.
STATUS
Introduced
SB52 - Juvenile Justice Restoration Act of 2024
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to establish that the juvenile court has exclusive original jurisdiction over a child who is at least 10 years old alleged to have committed a crime involving the use or possession of a firearm; and altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the child's consultation with an attorney.
STATUS
Introduced
SB44 - Safe Communities Act of 2024
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 9 months ago
13 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
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-036
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Stephen S. Hershey Jr. is a former member of the Maryland State Senate. Hershey represented District 36 from January 12, 2011 to January 13, 2021. He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2003 to 2011. Hershey sits on the Senate’s Budget & Taxation Committee and Judicial Proceedings Committee. He is also a member of several state commissions and task forces dealing with public safety, corrections reform, juvenile law, and more.read less
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