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SB1095 - Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring
William C. Smith, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring to study and make recommendations regarding the costs and availability of both publicly and privately provided pretrial home detention monitoring systems; and requiring the Workgroup to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31 each year.
STATUS
Passed
SB668 - Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage
Nick Charles, Charles E. Sydnor, Chris West
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is entering foster care, moving from one foster care placement to another, or exiting foster care; prohibiting the Department from using disposable bags or trash bags to transport items for a child in foster care; and requiring the Department to maintain certain records.
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
SB391 - Criminal Law - Sexual Extortion, Stalking, and Revenge Porn - Statute of Limitations and In Banc Review
Ariana M. Kelly, William C. Smith, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 4 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years and the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purposes of the Maryland Constitution, a person who commits revenge porn shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor whose punishment is confinement in the penitentiary and may reserve a point or question for a certain in banc review.
STATUS
Passed
SB442 - Street Racing and Exhibition Driving - Prohibited Acts, Enforcement, and Penalties
Pamela G Beidle, Malcolm L. Augustine, Nick Charles
Last updated 5 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for driving by the public; and establishing certain affirmative defenses to a certain charge of exhibition driving.
STATUS
Passed
SB379 - Task Force to Study Crime Classification - Renaming, Membership, and Duties
Chris West, Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Ronald Lorenzo Watson
Last updated 4 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Extending the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and renaming it to be the Task Force to Study Crime Reclassification and Penalties; requiring the Task Force to study the penalties for crimes and civil offenses under State law, the potential need for reclassification of certain crimes, the alteration of penalties, and whether certain changes should be made to crimes lacking an explicit mens rea; and requiring the Task Force to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB4 - Criminal Procedure - Victims' Rights - Notification of Release From Confinement (Jaycee Webster Victims' Rights Act)
Jeff D. Waldstreicher, William C. Smith, Jill P Carter
Last updated 7 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the name and telephone number of the lead victim services employee of the State's Attorney's office of the county in which the sentenced defendant or child respondent was prosecuted.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1178 - Higher Education - Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship - Repeal of Service Terminal Date
Jack Bailey, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 5 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
STATUS
Passed
SB653 - Standing - Environmental and Natural Resources Protection Proceedings (Clean Water Justice Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Sarah K. Elfreth, William C. Smith
Last updated 5 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain circumstances, to give certain notice and provide certain documentation to the Department of the Environment and the Attorney General in a certain manner and to file a certain affidavit; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB2 - Juvenile Law - Child in Need of Supervision - Mandatory Petition (NyKayla Strawder Memorial Act)
Jill P Carter, Nick Charles, William Folden
Last updated 7 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requiring a law enforcement officer to forward a complaint alleging that a child under the age of 13 years committed an act that resulted in the death of a victim to the Department of Juvenile Services for appropriate action.
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Maryland district SD-020
COMMITTEES
Maryland Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
William C. Smith, Jr. is a native Washingtonian and third generation Washingtonian. He graduated from Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Catholic University. He worked for various community development organizations. He served as a Board Member of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation. He also served as Ward 5's representative on the DC State Board of Education from 2007 to 2012.read less
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