Guy J. Guzzone

Voted to pass HB 1082, which set up state subsidies to cushion a coming rise in health plan premiums. Federal tax credits hold down what people pay for health plans bought on the state exchange, and the share of income households owe was set to rise in 2026 and 2027. The Maryland Health Benefit Exchange must build a state-funded subsidy program, within available money, aimed at the people that increase hits. The exchange has to track spending monthly and publish it. If Congress extends the federal credits for those two years, the whole program ends. A yes vote created that state backstop. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 468 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 1310, which widened the program that redistributes donated prescription drugs. The Prescription Drug Repository Program collects unused medicine and dispenses it to patients who need it. The bill lets an out-of-state entity take part, adds over-the-counter drugs to what the program may accept, defines who counts as an eligible patient, and widens the legal immunity for people who donate, handle or receive the drugs. It also sets what an out-of-state repository must do and clarifies which drugs may be accepted. A yes vote widened the program. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 705 of 2025.

April 4, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 424, the Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act, which gave the state's Prescription Drug Affordability Board more power over high drug prices. The board sets upper payment limits, which are caps on what can be paid for a drug. The bill dropped some of the board's reporting duties. Instead the board must decide whether caps are in the state's best interest for drugs that cost people too much, and set them if it decides they are. It may set those caps for drugs bought or paid for by state and local government. It may not use a cap against Medicare Advantage or Medicare drug plan payment rules, count a pharmacy's dispensing fee toward a cap, or put a new cap on a drug that is in short supply. The bill added members to the board's advisory council. Widening the caps to cover all buyers and insurers depends on other steps happening by September 30, 2030. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 611 of 2025.

April 4, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 765, which let hospitals sell patient debt only to buyers who wipe it out. State law had barred hospitals from selling patient debt at all. Now a hospital may sell it to a government body or a nonprofit, but only if the contract says the point of the sale is to cancel the debt, and the patient then owes nothing. The debt must be at least two years old and owed by someone earning up to five times the federal poverty level, or whose medical debt tops 5% of family income. The buyer must tell the patient the debt is gone and try to undo any court judgment or credit report damage. A yes vote opened this path for wiping out old hospital bills. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 750 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 1249, which stopped recovery homes turning away people on addiction medication. Medication-assisted treatment uses prescribed medicine, such as buprenorphine or methadone, to treat opioid use disorder. The rules a credentialing body sets for certified recovery residences must now bar a residence from refusing services to someone because they are receiving that treatment, and from requiring anyone to stop or change how they receive it as a condition of being admitted. A yes vote barred that exclusion. The Maryland Senate passed it 36-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 793 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 12, which required landlords to provide air conditioning in summer. A landlord of an apartment building with 10 or more units must provide air conditioning each year from June 1 through September 30, unless the bill exempts the unit. It starts June 1, 2026 for newly built units and for units where the landlord had already provided air conditioning or the lease required it at any point on or after January 1, 2025. It starts October 1, 2026 for existing units undergoing a renovation that replaces or substantially upgrades the electrical or heating system. It does not reach any building whose permit was issued before it took effect. A yes vote made summer cooling a landlord duty. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 664 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 405, which stopped condo and HOA rules blocking EV chargers. The governing documents of a condominium or homeowners association may no longer bar or unreasonably restrict installing electric vehicle charging equipment in common or limited common parking spaces. Such an installation goes through the same budget process as a comparable common-area renovation of similar cost, and the governing body must assess community parking capacity first. The body may grant a license for up to three years on any common element needed for the equipment or its power supply, renewable at its discretion. The rule applies to existing covenants and bylaws, not only new ones. A yes vote cleared those barriers to chargers. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 753 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 254, the Supporting Inclusive Community Adaptation Act. The Department of Natural Resources must bring communities into the planning and development of its projects. The bill sets up a grant fund the department runs, aimed at climate change resilience, alongside other departmental work on it. It also loosens an existing loan fund for shore erosion control projects by removing certain funding limits and allowing part of a loan to be forgiven. A yes vote created that community role and funding. The Maryland Senate passed it 24-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 76 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 656, which lets people harmed by prohibited cosmetic ingredients seek damages and treats violations as deceptive consumer practices. It lets health inspectors investigate complaints and requires a plan for a fund to research and treat health conditions tied to harmful hair chemicals. It became Chapter 283 of 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-10.

April 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 252, which let the state require insurance from lead paint removal contractors. State rules accredit the businesses that strip lead paint from older homes. The bill lets the Maryland Department of the Environment write rules requiring anyone it accredits for lead abatement to carry a reasonable performance bond or reasonable liability insurance. It took effect July 1, 2026. A yes vote allowed that requirement. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 359 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 637, an Administration bill giving Maryland its own vaccine and screening recommendations. The Secretary of Health must now issue, publish and distribute recommendations for immunizations, screenings and preventive services, so the state has its own list rather than depending on federal advice. A pharmacist may give a vaccine the Secretary recommends to anyone at least seven years old. The bill also changes what health insurance must cover for those immunizations, screenings and preventive services. It took effect July 1, 2026 and applies to plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027. A yes vote created the state's own recommendations. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 7 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 1135, which let pharmacists order a vaccine without giving it themselves. A pharmacist may order a vaccine for anyone at least three years old without administering it, so someone else can give it. Where the patient is under 18, whether the pharmacist gives the vaccine or an adult caregiver does, the pharmacist must explain the importance of visits with a pediatric primary care provider and refer the patient to one where appropriate. A yes vote gave pharmacists that authority. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-9 and it was signed into law as Chapter 270 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 250, which gave the environment department teeth on water and dam violations. The Maryland Department of the Environment may now impose an administrative penalty for breaking the rules on appropriating or using waters, reservoirs and dams. The bill also widens the department's power to issue orders over waterway construction and dam safety, standardizes the notice and hearing steps, and requires certain steps before the department moves to recover a penalty. It took effect July 1, 2026. A yes vote created that enforcement power. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 273 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 734, which kept a farm tax break available for solar on farmland. Farmland gets a lower property tax assessment. A community solar project had to win Public Service Commission approval by December 31, 2025 to keep that assessment; the bill pushes the deadline to December 31, 2030. It also lets the state assessments department decide before construction whether an agrivoltaics project — farming and solar on the same land — will qualify, with the power to rescind that decision in set circumstances and to charge an application fee. A yes vote extended the tax break. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 45 of 2026.

April 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 1315, which locked pharmacist vaccine rules and insurance coverage to federal advice as it stood at the end of 2024. Maryland lets pharmacists give the shots a federal panel recommends. The bill says that means the federal rules in force on December 31, 2024, plus any new vaccine the panel adds later, so a rollback in Washington would not narrow what pharmacists may give. Health plans must also cover every visit and cost for the childhood and teen shots the panel recommended as of that date, starting with plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. A yes vote locked in the 2024 vaccine access and coverage. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 738 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 901, which made the companies behind packaging and paper products - including makers, brand owners, and importers - responsible for recycling what they sell. Each producer must send a recycling plan to the Maryland Department of the Environment for approval by July 1, 2028. After a date the department sets, a producer may not sell or ship covered packaging in Maryland without an approved plan. The department must list which materials are covered, keep studying what the state's recycling system needs, and enforce the rules. The bill also changed the state's existing advisory council on the subject and set rules for the companies hired to do the work. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 431 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 452, which tightened the rules on outdoor lighting paid for with state money. State funds already could not be used to install or replace a permanent outdoor light fixture on state building grounds unless it met set criteria. The bill extends that to state parks and trails, and exempts lighting for the field of play at a sports facility. Except for fixtures installed by the transportation department, a fixture paid for with state money must have a color temperature of 3,000 Kelvin or less, which is the warmer, less glaring end of the range, subject to existing waivers. It also requires the Maryland Green Building Council to update guidance for buying outdoor lighting fixtures by October 1, 2026, and the transportation department to review its own highway lighting practices. A yes vote tightened those lighting rules. The Maryland Senate passed it 36-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 389 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 1380, which made minimum childbirth care standards a condition of a hospital's license. The Maryland Department of Health, working with the state's emergency medical services institute, must write rules setting minimum perinatal care standards — the care around pregnancy and birth — that meet or beat the existing Maryland Perinatal System Standards. The rules were due by October 1, 2026. Every hospital that delivers babies and every freestanding birthing center must meet them to keep its license. A yes vote made those standards mandatory. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 709 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 731, which set up a state effort to keep wildlife off the highways. The bill creates the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to improve the connections between wildlife habitats and cut collisions between animals and vehicles, and gives the natural resources department and the State Highway Administration roles in it. Local governments must consider wildlife movement and habitat connections when they write or amend their comprehensive plans, and the planning department must supply them the relevant information. A yes vote created the coalition and the planning duty. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 549 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 4, which limited how far a community association can restrict rooftop solar. State law already bars unreasonable restrictions on installing a solar collector system. The bill puts numbers on what unreasonable means: a restriction counts as unreasonable if it raises the install cost by at least 5% over the cost of the original proposal, or cuts the energy the system would generate by at least 10%. It also spells out what a community association may still do about solar installations. A yes vote set those limits on solar restrictions. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 517 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 250, which raised environmental fees and tightened the rules on dams. The bill raises a number of fees and penalties that fund programs at the Maryland Department of the Environment and lets the department set new fees for certain programs. It also strengthens the state's regulatory framework for dams and creates a special fund tied to it. Most of it took effect July 1, 2025, with the Maryland Clean Air Fund provisions starting June 1, 2025. A yes vote raised those fees and tightened dam regulation. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-14 and it was signed into law as Chapter 432 of 2025.

March 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 425, which tightened the fees and rules on coal ash. Coal combustion by-products are the ash and residue left from burning coal. The yearly fee their producers pay the Maryland Department of the Environment must now take account of how much they have in storage. The department used to have to cut the fee the next year whenever it collected more than the program cost; instead it must spend the extra on reusing the ash and on reducing the harm to people and the environment from releases at priority sites. The department must also update its rules, and a new statewide committee oversees the work. A yes vote tightened those fees and duties. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 529 of 2025.

March 17, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 795, which stopped public employers shortchanging workers on student loan forgiveness. The federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels remaining student debt after ten years of payments while working full time for a public employer, and the employer has to certify the employment. A Maryland public service employer must now adopt a way of counting hours that maximizes the time an employee counts as full time, and must treat an employee as full time if they meet the minimum. The bill sets out how adjunct and tenured professors are certified and bars an employer from unreasonably delaying a certification. A yes vote required employers to certify this way. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 324 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to override the Governor's veto of HB 862, which set a minimum crew size for freight trains. A freight train that shares a corridor with a high-speed passenger or commuter train may not run in Maryland with fewer than two crew members. A willful violation costs the railroad up to $10,000, or up to $25,000 for a repeat within three years, and the company alone is answerable for its employees. The rule only starts once New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia pass similar laws. The Governor vetoed the bill on May 22, 2026 on policy grounds. A yes vote overrode that veto and put the two-person crew rule into law. The Maryland Senate overrode the veto 33-11, so the bill became Chapter 879 of 2026.

August 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass SB 417, the Maryland Worker Freedom Act, which let workers skip employer meetings about politics or religion. An employer may not punish a worker, threaten to, or refuse to hire someone because the person declines to sit through a company meeting on the employer's political or religious views. Political matters covers elections, parties, proposed changes to law or policy, and whether to join a party or a union. Churches, political groups, schools teaching the subject, legally required training and government new-hire orientation are exempt, and voluntary meetings are still allowed. The state labor commissioner enforces it and must publish a workplace poster by November 1, 2026. A yes vote gave workers the right to walk out of these meetings. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 221 of 2026.

March 23, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass HB 1530, which shortened the residency proof for in-state tuition under the Dream Act. The Maryland Dream Act lets some undocumented students pay in-state rather than out-of-state tuition if they or a parent or guardian filed Maryland income tax returns for a set number of years beforehand. The bill cuts that from three years to two. It took effect July 1, 2026. A yes vote widened who qualifies. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-14 and it was signed into law as Chapter 799 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 810, the Maryland Values Act of 2026, which widened the places immigration agents may not freely enter. School staff must tell the county superintendent when they learn of immigration enforcement at a school. They may not be used for immigration enforcement, and may not hand over student records, staff records or family information for it. Places a school, library or state office must keep closed to agents now include any area behind a security screening, and school-linked protected places now include a school bus stop, a school vehicle and sites that hand out food to people in need. Each courthouse must adopt its own policy by October 1, 2026. A yes vote widened these protections. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-14 and it was signed into law as Chapter 161 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 791, the Community Trust Act, which limits when local jails and police may hold someone for or share information with federal immigration enforcement. It requires a judicial warrant for specified immigration holds, keeps exceptions for some convicted people, and allows lawsuits to enforce the rules. It became Chapter 872 of 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-15.

April 13, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 444, which banned state and local agreements to enforce federal immigration law. The state, any local government and any county sheriff may not sign a deal with the federal government that lets their own officers enforce civil immigration law. These are often called 287(g) agreements, after the section of federal law that allows them. Any such deal already in place had to be ended right away. It was an emergency bill, so it took effect the moment it was signed. A yes vote ended local participation in federal immigration enforcement. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 2 of 2026.

February 12, 2026Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 608, which eased a paperwork step for U visas. A U visa lets a crime victim who helps the authorities stay in the United States, but first a state or local official must sign a form saying the victim was helpful. The bill lets the victim's lawyer or advocate ask for that form, drops any limit on how long ago the crime happened, and requires an official who refuses to explain why in writing. A yes vote made the certification easier for immigrant crime victims to get. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 114 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass HB 1222, the Maryland Values Act, which limited where federal immigration agents can go in the state. The law names a list of "sensitive locations": public schools, public libraries, courthouses, government-run health care sites, and similar places. Public schools, public libraries, and executive branch agencies of state or local government working at those places must keep the agents out of the parts closed to the public. Agents may still enter with a warrant signed by a judge, or in an emergency. Jails and courthouse lockups are not covered. A federal officer must also notify certain people before acting at one of these places. The Attorney General had to publish guidance, and each covered school, library, and office had to adopt a matching policy by October 1, 2025. By July 1, 2026 each must also publish steps that stop personal records and location data from being sold or shared in ways that hurt residents' privacy. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 718 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Immigration

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Voted to pass SB 1, which barred police from covering their faces on duty and required them to wear identification. The state police training commission must write two policies every agency follows. Officers may not wear a face covering on duty except undercover, or where a covering is absolutely needed for health or safety such as bad weather; general worry about officer safety is not enough. Officers must wear identification on their outer layer and say who they are when asked, unless in plain clothes or undercover. Breaking either rule is a civil offense with a fine up to $1,500 and counts as police misconduct. A yes vote required officers to show their faces and their names. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 612 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 168, which opened state housing funds to housing built for teachers. Three housing programs run by the state housing department — the Housing Innovation Fund, the Housing Innovation Pilot Program and the Neighborhood and Community Assistance Program — may now fund educator workforce housing, and the bill widens who may receive that money. It took effect July 1, 2026. A yes vote opened those funds to educator housing. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 678 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 548, the Maryland Housing Certainty Act. A housing project application must now be judged only against the laws and regulations in force when a complete application was filed, so later rule changes cannot be applied to it. Once approved, the developer has a vested right to the approved use for five years, or longer if the local jurisdiction or the regional planning commission sets a longer period. A county or town may not collect development impact fees or excise taxes on a residential project until construction is finished. A yes vote gave housing projects that certainty. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 591 of 2026.

April 10, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 571, which extended a housing tax exemption to nonprofit subsidiaries. Subsidiary entities of housing authorities are already exempt from state and local taxes. The bill changes the definition of a nonprofit housing corporation and gives that same exemption to the subsidiaries such corporations set up. It took effect July 1, 2026. A yes vote extended the exemption. The Maryland Senate passed it 24-17 and it was signed into law as Chapter 727 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 1085, which widened a property tax break for housing built by public housing authorities. Housing authorities set up separate nonprofit companies to build and run housing. Property owned by those nonprofits was tax free in only three places: Baltimore City, Howard County and Montgomery County. The bill gives the same break to the nonprofits of every housing authority in the state. A yes vote extended the tax break statewide. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 169 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 390, the Affordable Housing Payment in Lieu of Taxes Expansion Act. It lets a county drop the county property tax on a rental building if the owner keeps at least a quarter of the units affordable for 15 years or more. In exchange the owner signs a deal to pay the county a set yearly amount instead of the tax. A unit counts as affordable if a household earning 60% or less of the area's middle income can rent it for no more than 30% of its pay. A yes vote gave counties this new tax tool to encourage affordable rentals. The Maryland Senate passed it 37-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 107 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass SB 154, which kept paying for tenants' lawyers in eviction cases. Maryland gives many tenants facing eviction a right to a lawyer, funded through the Access to Counsel in Evictions fund. The bill extends through fiscal 2028 both the $14.0 million a year moved into that fund from unclaimed property and the Governor's duty to budget that same $14.0 million out to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation. It also moves the program's task force from the Attorney General's office to the housing department, which may now pay some members. A yes vote kept the eviction-lawyer money flowing. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 457 of 2025.

March 17, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 1490, which stopped cash assistance being cut off over child support. The Family Investment Program may no longer deny, reduce or end assistance where someone has good cause for not cooperating with child support enforcement, under criteria the Secretary of Human Services sets. The program must find good cause where cooperating may be against the child's best interest, and a caseworker granting it may not contact the parent the support would come from. A yes vote protected those families' assistance. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 763 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass HB 881, which sends more collected child support straight to families on cash assistance. When a parent on the Family Investment Program is owed child support, the state collects it and has kept part of it. Starting in fiscal 2028 the share passed through to the family rises each year, and from fiscal 2031 the family gets 100% of what is collected that month. The money passed through is also ignored when the state works out the family's benefit, so it does not cut their assistance. A yes vote sent that money to the families. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 373 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass HB 1424, the Protect Our Federal Workers Act, which offered state help to Marylanders who lost federal jobs. It let two state emergency funds be spent on former federal workers, and renamed one of them the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund. It changed who may borrow from that fund and allowed some loans to be forgiven, meaning the money never has to be paid back. It let the Governor move up to $5.0 million into that fund in fiscal 2025 from the Rainy Day Fund, the state's savings account. It gave the Attorney General more power to go to court over federal actions that harm Marylanders, and required at least $2.5 million a year for that office. It also set up a temporary program to hire people who left federal service into open state jobs. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 97 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass SB 599, which restored guaranteed funding for behavioral health crisis response. The bill brings back a funding mandate for three years: the Governor must include $5.0 million in the operating budget for the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program in each of fiscal years 2027, 2028 and 2029. It took effect July 1, 2025. A yes vote guaranteed that money for three years. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 666 of 2025.

March 17, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass HB 197, which told the state to plan for restorative practices schools. Restorative practices is a student discipline model focused on relationships and on students taking personal accountability. By July 1, 2026 the Maryland State Department of Education must write a full plan for setting these up, using outside experts, and must help schools that ask. A local school board that opens one must follow it. The department must report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026. The state's school discipline rules now say restorative practices instead of approaches. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 240 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass HB 284, a State Police bill requiring gun dealers to report break-ins within a day. A licensed firearms dealer must tell the head of the State Police within 24 hours of first learning of a break-in. That covers a burglary, attempted burglary, robbery or theft involving a firearm or ammunition where the dealer operates or stores guns, and it also covers a required security feature being compromised. The notice is on top of any report to local police or to the federal firearms bureau. The bill also changes the penalties for dealers who break these rules. A yes vote required fast reporting of break-ins, gun thefts and security failures. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 85 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass SB 334, which banned sales of pistols that can be quickly turned into machine guns. From January 1, 2027 no one may make, sell, buy, receive or transfer a machine gun convertible pistol. That means a semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that a small add-on part, fitted in place of the slide's backplate, can turn into a machine gun by hand or with ordinary household tools. Breaking the ban is a misdemeanor carrying up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Someone who already owns one lawfully may still pass it to an immediate family member, and dealers, gunsmiths, police and retired officers are exempt. A yes vote banned the sale and transfer of these pistols. The Maryland Senate passed it 28-16 and it was signed into law as Chapter 771 of 2026.

March 19, 2026Supports Gun Control

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Voted to pass HB 1076, which requires Maryland's public four-year colleges and community colleges to report each year on students' access to nonprescription birth control. Community colleges must make every method of over-the-counter contraception available to students on campus. It became Chapter 674 of 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-13.

April 10, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass HB 372, which wrote federal emergency care rules for pregnancy into Maryland law. If a hospital finds a pregnancy emergency serious enough that delay could badly harm the patient's health, organs or bodily functions, it must use its own staff to treat her until she is stable, or transfer her. Treatment includes ending the pregnancy when that is medically necessary to stabilize her, and the hospital must allow it there if the treating clinician says it is needed. The hospital may not punish a clinician who refuses to transfer an unstable patient or who follows the standard of care, nor an employee who reports a violation. Civil penalties apply. A yes vote put these emergency pregnancy care duties into state law. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 789 of 2026.

April 8, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass HB 1045, which extended Maryland's medical privacy shield to gender-affirming care. State law protects records about abortion and other sensitive health services from being handed to another state. The bill adds gender-affirming care to the definitions of legally protected health care and sensitive health services, so those records get the same protection. It also updates the state Family Planning Program's references to federal law from 2016 to December 31, 2024, and gives the Insurance Commissioner and the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights shared power to enforce the ban on discrimination in health insurance. A yes vote extended those privacy and enforcement protections. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 469 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass SB 848, which created the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to help people get abortion care. The money comes from leftover funds in the separate accounts that health insurers must keep for abortion care under the federal Affordable Care Act. The Insurance Commissioner must order that money moved into a new state fund. The Governor had to put $2.0 million of it toward the program by October 1, 2025. Starting in fiscal 2027 the Governor must budget at least 90% of the leftover money for the fund each year. The Maryland Senate passed it 29-15 and it was signed into law as Chapter 436 of 2025.

March 17, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted to pass SB 949, an emergency bill setting absentee ballot deadlines in law. The bill writes into statute requirements much like the State Board of Elections regulations already governing when an absentee ballot counts as timely. It adds rules for when federal law or a federal court sets a different deadline for ballots carrying federal contests. Votes in non-federal contests on ballots meeting state timeliness rules must still be counted. The board must also adopt canvass regulations that comply with the federal deadline. A yes vote fixed those deadlines in law. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 440 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass SB 237, which bound Maryland's presidential electors to their pledge. Presidential electors formally cast the state's votes for President and Vice President. The bill requires each elector to pledge to vote in line with the party or unaffiliated candidate that nominated them, and sets out how a substitute is appointed if the office falls vacant. An elector vacates the office by refusing to present a ballot, presenting a blank one, or presenting one marked against their pledge. A yes vote bound electors to their pledge. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 469 of 2026.

April 10, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass HB 115, which requires corrections officials to send monthly release information to election officials so they can restore an eligible Marylander's prior voter registration at a new in-state address. The person must get notice and can decline registration or update their address. It became Chapter 428 of 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 30-13.

April 8, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass HB 983, which set up help for voters who do not speak English well. The State Board of Elections must decide which counties have a real need for help in another language. Local election boards in those counties must provide it, including a way for a voter to reach a translator and talk with election judges at an early voting center or a polling place. The state board had to post the list of covered local boards on its website by January 1, 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 278 of 2025.

April 4, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass HB 199, which changed how the state checks in with permanent absentee voters. Voters on the permanent absentee list get a ballot mailed for every election without asking each time. The bill changes the outreach the State Board of Elections does before an election to confirm that a voter is still on that list, and to confirm their address and how they want the ballot sent. It took effect July 1, 2025. A yes vote adopted the new outreach rules. The Maryland Senate passed it 36-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 280 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass HB 711, the Data Privacy Act, which walled personal data off from immigration enforcement. A company that decides how personal data is used may not knowingly sell a consumer's data to any federal, state or local government body that, in the previous six months, carried out or backed civil immigration enforcement by supplying staff or resources. Without a court warrant naming the exact data, such a company also may not answer subpoenas from those agencies or otherwise cooperate with them. The bill widens what counts as protected data, including location data and sensitive data, and makes matching changes to the public records law and to the rules on police database access. A yes vote put those limits on sharing personal data. The Maryland Senate passed it 28-8 and it became law without the Governor's signature as Chapter 874 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted to pass SB 187, an emergency bill on prerelease services for incarcerated women. A prerelease facility prepares people for life after prison with work, education and reentry services. The bill reclassifies the women's prerelease unit in the Division of Correction as a prerelease facility for eligible individuals and changes the requirements and timelines around it, including the timeline for providing the comprehensive rehabilitative services it is required to offer. From June 1, 2027 the Correctional Ombudsman must check and verify the corrections department's progress each year and report findings to legislative committees. A yes vote pressed the state to deliver those services. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-13 and it became law without the Governor's signature as Chapter 876 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 937, the Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act, which limited criminal record screening by landlords. A landlord who owns or manages five or more rental units — not counting owner-occupied ones — may not ask a prospective tenant for a drug or alcohol test or for records from an addiction treatment program. Before making a conditional offer, meaning an offer to rent that depends on a background check, the landlord may not ask about criminal history at all. There is one set of exceptions: the landlord may still ask about and reject an applicant for murder, a sex offense, child pornography, human trafficking, or making meth in federally assisted housing, or for being on a sex offender registry. After the offer, a check may be run on every applicant, and only a felony from the past five years, or one of those listed crimes, can be weighed. An offer may be withdrawn only to protect a substantial and legitimate interest, with the reason in writing and a right to ask for a second look with evidence of error, rehabilitation or mitigating factors. Breaking the rules costs up to $500 a time, and the law replaces any comparable local ordinance. A yes vote set those limits on screening tenants by criminal record. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 752 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 255, the Voting Rights Act of 2026, which let voters challenge local election systems that dilute their votes. A county or town may not use a way of electing its governing body that weakens the ability of a racial, color or language minority group to elect the candidates it prefers. A challenger must show that local voting splits along those lines and that another lawful election method would likely fix the problem. The Attorney General or any person may sue in that county, and a winning private plaintiff may recover lawyer and expert costs. It does not apply to statewide elections. A yes vote created this state voting rights claim. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-14 and it was signed into law as Chapter 157 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 573, which let housing discrimination be proven by effect rather than intent. A practice now breaks the fair housing law if it predictably falls harder on a protected group, or keeps neighborhoods segregated, even with no intent to discriminate. Protected groups include race, color, religion, sex, disability, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, source of income and military status. There is no violation if all three hold: no discriminatory intent, the act was needed for a substantial and legitimate purpose, and no less discriminatory way could have achieved it. A yes vote added the effect-based test to fair housing law. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 778 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 475, the PACE Act, which limited using a defendant's art as evidence against them. Prosecutors have used defendants' song lyrics and other creative work as proof of guilt. In a criminal or juvenile case, such work is now inadmissible unless the judge finds all four of the following, more likely than not. The defendant meant it literally rather than as fiction. It is close in time and facts to the alleged offense. It bears on a disputed fact, and its value as proof outweighs the unfair prejudice it causes. Creative expression covers music, dance, performance and visual art, poetry, literature and film. Juvenile courts may still use it to steer a young person toward mental health services or a diversion program. A yes vote set that test before art can be used as evidence. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 517 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 315, which barred landlords from rejecting voucher holders over their credit. A landlord who uses financial information to screen applicants may not refuse someone who pays rent with a housing subsidy because of their income, their credit score, their lack of one, or bad credit history from a time when they had no subsidy. Doing so is a discriminatory housing practice the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights enforces. A landlord may still check that the tenant can afford their own share of the rent, using the same income test applied to other tenants, and may still rely on landlord references or a record of lease violations, unpaid utilities, nuisance or property damage. Landlords with six or more units must also offer to report tenants' on-time rent payments to a credit bureau. A yes vote made that screening a form of housing discrimination. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 772 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 351, the No Kings Act, which created a state lawsuit against federal officers who violate someone's rights. A person who was harmed, or the Attorney General, may sue a covered officer who acted under color of law and took away a right protected by law, including the U.S. Constitution. A covered officer is one who can arrest for federal crimes and carry a gun on duty; Maryland officers on a joint task force are not covered. The suit may seek money and a court order, a winning plaintiff may recover lawyer and expert fees, and the deadline to sue is five years. Officers may still raise any immunity defense that existed when the claim arose. A yes vote created this right to sue. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 459 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 439, which protected firefighters and medics who use medical cannabis. An employer of a fire and rescue public safety employee may not discipline, discharge or otherwise discriminate against them over pay, terms or conditions of employment because they hold a valid medical cannabis certification or test positive for cannabis while holding one. The employer also may not limit, segregate or classify employees in a way that would deprive such an employee of opportunities or harm their status. The protections are subject to the exceptions the bill sets out. A yes vote created those job protections. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 183 of 2026.

March 6, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 322, which restored jury eligibility after a sentence is served. State law disqualified anyone who had ever received a sentence of more than a year in prison from serving on a jury, for life. The bill replaces that: a person is disqualified only while actually serving such a sentence, including parole or probation. It separately disqualifies anyone convicted of perjury, witness or jury intimidation, a related offense, or a fraud crime. It also repeals the rule that a pardon restored jury eligibility. A yes vote restored jury service after a sentence ends. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-11 and it became law without the Governor's signature as Chapter 875 of 2026.

March 5, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 783, which added structural racism to the implicit bias training already required of licensed health workers. Implicit bias means the unspoken assumptions a person carries without meaning to. Anyone licensed by a state health board must confirm they finished an approved course covering both subjects the first time they renew after April 1, 2026. A state program run with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities decides which courses count. A yes vote added the structural racism material to health license renewals. The Maryland Senate passed it 29-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 478 of 2025.

April 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 502, an Administration bill making the state a model employer of people with disabilities. The bill creates the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy inside the Maryland Department of Disabilities and puts it in charge of the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative from July 1, 2026. Each December 1 from that year on, the office must report to the Governor and the legislature on how the initiative is going and recommend further changes to how state government hires and keeps people with disabilities. A yes vote created that office and initiative. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 1 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 324, the County Board Member Antibias Training Act. It makes every member of a county school board finish an antibias training course at least once during their term. It is the same course school staff already take, but board members take it in their own session. A yes vote required school board members to take the training. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 301 of 2025.

April 3, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 367, which stopped health boards demanding duplicate proof that an applicant speaks English. A Maryland health occupations board may no longer require extra evidence of English proficiency from an applicant who already holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification or registration from another state that required such evidence. Any board that asks for English proficiency evidence must say so prominently on its website, along with this exception. The bill also changes the English proficiency rules of the nursing and pharmacy boards and the conditions for a nurse licensed elsewhere to be licensed here by endorsement. A yes vote removed that duplicate requirement. The Maryland Senate passed it 33-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 731 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass HB 39, the Carlton R. Smith Act, which erased Maryland's crime of passing on HIV. Knowingly giving or trying to give someone HIV had been a misdemeanor, the lower level of crime. The bill removed it and its penalty. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 651 of 2025.

April 2, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass SB 432, the Expungement Reform Act of 2025, a bill sent up by the Governor's office. Expungement is a court order erasing the record of an old case. The bill starts the waiting period when the whole sentence ends, including probation or parole, and adds credit card theft and driving without a license to the offenses that can be erased. A judge must also weigh how well the person did on supervision and whether they paid any restitution or truly cannot afford it. From January 31, 2026 the state's public case-search website stops showing certain dropped, inactive and pardoned cannabis charges. A yes vote made it easier to clear an old record. The Maryland Senate passed it 36-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 95 of 2025.

March 14, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to override the Governor's veto of HB 862, which set a minimum crew size for freight trains. A freight train that shares a corridor with a high-speed passenger or commuter train may not run in Maryland with fewer than two crew members. A willful violation costs the railroad up to $10,000, or up to $25,000 for a repeat within three years, and the company alone is answerable for its employees. The rule only starts once New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia pass similar laws. The Governor vetoed the bill on May 22, 2026 on policy grounds. A yes vote overrode that veto and put the two-person crew rule into law. The Maryland Senate overrode the veto 33-11, so the bill became Chapter 879 of 2026.

August 3, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 191, which made shops take cash for everyday essentials. Between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., a shop may not refuse cash, demand a card, or charge more for paying cash when someone buys an essential consumer good. That covers food, water and drinks, personal hygiene and cleaning products, medicine and medical supplies, and fuel. It applies only to in-person sales under $300, and not to online, phone, mail, vending machine or kiosk sales, restaurants, specialty food shops, or membership fuel sellers. A shop may refuse notes larger than $20, or use a free cash-to-card machine on site instead. Breaking the rule is an unfair trade practice under state consumer law. A yes vote guaranteed the right to pay cash for essentials. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 714 of 2026.

April 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 103, which bars consumer contracts from waiving, limiting, or taking away remedies that state or federal law gives consumers. It still allows a contract to limit statutory or punitive damages to available insurance coverage and leaves valid arbitration clauses intact. It became Chapter 308 of 2026. The Maryland Senate passed it 35-11.

April 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 969, which set measurement rules for public EV charging. Electricity sold at retail as vehicle fuel must be measured and sold in kilowatt-hours. During a charging session the customer may be charged only for the kilowatt-hours delivered, plus a service fee that may be flat or by time, is applied only when the session ends, and must be itemized on the receipt. The owner of the charging equipment must display clearly, on or beside it, the name, address and phone number of a local person responsible for it. A yes vote set those charging standards. The Maryland Senate passed it 24-9 and it was signed into law as Chapter 281 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 994, which required travel sellers to carry insurance. Sellers of travel services and independent agents must file proof each year with the Maryland Department of Labor of professional liability and errors and omissions insurance of at least $1,000,000. The department must tell consumers and sellers about the requirement, enforce it, and write rules covering registration and enforcement. The bill also creates a registration fund the department administers. A yes vote required that insurance. The Maryland Senate passed it 28-14 and it was signed into law as Chapter 611 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 220, which capped what landlords can charge tenants for water. Building owners, and the managers or contractors they hire, may install individual water submeters in apartments, dwelling units and mobile homes. An owner who uses those submeters to bill for bulk water service may not charge a unit any water or sewer cost beyond what the water provider actually charged. The bill also sets record-keeping duties, a method for billing when a submeter reads badly, and conditions a landlord must meet first. A yes vote tied those bills to actual cost. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-11 and it was signed into law as Chapter 262 of 2026.

April 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass SB 417, the Maryland Worker Freedom Act, which let workers skip employer meetings about politics or religion. An employer may not punish a worker, threaten to, or refuse to hire someone because the person declines to sit through a company meeting on the employer's political or religious views. Political matters covers elections, parties, proposed changes to law or policy, and whether to join a party or a union. Churches, political groups, schools teaching the subject, legally required training and government new-hire orientation are exempt, and voluntary meetings are still allowed. The state labor commissioner enforces it and must publish a workplace poster by November 1, 2026. A yes vote gave workers the right to walk out of these meetings. The Maryland Senate passed it 31-12 and it was signed into law as Chapter 221 of 2026.

March 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass SB 94, which banned tips on pay advances and consumer loans. Consumer loan lenders, commercial loan lenders and earned wage access providers may not ask for or take a tip, and must return any tip they collect within seven days. They must tell consumers that they are barred from asking for or accepting one. The bill also brings earned wage access providers under the consumer protection and non-discrimination rules that already govern other consumer and commercial lending. A yes vote banned those tips. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 170 of 2026.

March 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 1294, which brought pay advance apps under Maryland's consumer lending law. Earned wage access products let a worker draw pay before payday, often for a fee or a requested tip. The bill treats certain of these products as loans under the Maryland Consumer Loan Law, requires the companies offering them to be licensed, and sets new rules on accepting tips. It also limits and requires disclosure of the costs and fees of getting one, and reworks the state's credit licensing structure to fit. A yes vote regulated pay advance products as lending. The Maryland Senate passed it 28-17 and it became law without the Governor's signature as Chapter 847 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 933, which put nursing home spending under yearly state review. The Maryland Department of Health must review the cost reports and other data every Medicaid nursing home files. The review covers how much revenue goes to contracted nursing services and how much goes to the pay of front-line staff. That includes nurse aides, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, housekeepers, dietary workers and clerical staff who deal with residents. Each year through 2029 the department must report what it found to the Governor and two legislative committees. A yes vote required this look at where nursing home money goes. The Maryland Senate passed it 34-13 and it was signed into law as Chapter 733 of 2025.

April 7, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass HB 1017, an emergency bill shutting privately run detention facilities out of Maryland. A detention facility here means any building used to hold people for civil or criminal violations, so the ban covers private jails and prisons as well as immigration detention; licensed hospitals and youth treatment programs are not covered. Neither the state nor any local government may approve building or operating any property for a private company to use as a detention facility, and a private company may not run or occupy one. Maryland already barred immigration-detention contracts with private companies under a 2021 law. If a state or federal court rules that ban unenforceable, a narrower rule takes its place: such a facility may only be approved where the zoning expressly allows private detention facilities. Because it is an emergency bill, it took effect on signing. A yes vote closed the state to privately run detention of any kind. The Maryland Senate passed it 32-10 and it was signed into law as Chapter 173 of 2026.

April 10, 2026

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Served as chair of the Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee beginning in 2020.

January 1, 2020

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Served as Majority Leader of the Maryland Senate from 2019 through 2020.

January 1, 2020

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Served as a Maryland State Senator for District 13 beginning January 14, 2015.

January 14, 2015

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