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SB738 - Freedom to Read Act
Nancy King, Pamela G Beidle, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school library media program; prohibiting a county board of education from dismissing, demoting, suspending, disciplining, reassigning, transferring, or otherwise retaliating against certain school library media program personnel for performing their job duties consistent with certain standards; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB475 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center to submit a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence to the Governor and General Assembly on or before May 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB479 - Motor Vehicles - Work Zone Speed Control Systems - Revisions (Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Jill P Carter
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be manned or unmanned and a system operator does not need to be present when a work zone speed control system is in use; altering the maximum penalty for a civil citation issued as a result of a recorded image produced by a work zone speed control system; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB471 - Criminal Procedure - Victim Compensation - Alterations (Victim Compensation Reform Act of 2024)
Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types of awards the Board is authorized to make to certain victims of crime; authorizing reconsideration and judicial review of decisions of the Board; authorizing the Governor to include certain funding in the annual budget bill for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB436 - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Penalties and Referrals
Dawn D. Gile, William C. Ferguson, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of Labor certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB473 - Economic Development - Entrepreneurial Innovation Programs - Establishment (Pava LaPere Legacy of Innovation Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and have their principle places of business in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson Metropolitan Statistical Area; establishing the Baltimore Innovation Initiative Pilot Program within the Maryland Innovation Initiative of the Corporation to provide incentives for and grow certain start-up companies; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB474 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Related Approvals - Definition of Generating Station (Critical Infrastructure Streamlining Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 5 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance operations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity or certain other related approvals under certain circumstances; and altering the distribution of income tax revenue from corporations that is attributable to certain data centers.
STATUS
Passed
SB470 - Growing Apprenticeships and the Public Safety Workforce (GAPS) Act
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 4 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; altering the eligibility criteria and the types of grants to be awarded under the Program; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop certain mental health wellness policies to be implemented in certain law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB774 - Public Safety - Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program
William C. Ferguson, William C. Smith, Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Last updated 4 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment districts; establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, to appropriate up to $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill to the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB784 - Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act
Sarah K. Elfreth, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Maryland district SD-046
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
William C. Ferguson is a Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of Georgia. Ferguson is a veteran, author and former police officer. He served in the Marines as a military police officer. He later served as a police officer in Georgia before becoming a teacher. After retiring from teaching, Ferguson became an author of thriller and mystery books. He has 16 published novels. This is Ferguson's first run for political office. He is focused on addressing violent crime, securing the border, and defending law enforcement.read less
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