Legislator
Legislator > Justin Ready
State Senator
Justin Ready
(R) - Maryland
Maryland Senate District 05
In Office - Started: 02/02/2015
contact info
Capitol Office
James Senate Office Building
11 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
11 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 410-841-3683
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB547 | Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling - Establishment | Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and efficiency while maintaining a broad package of benefits and reasonable premiums for public employees; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB376 | Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, beginning July 1, 2025, to report quarterly to certain committees of the General Assembly on disaggregated data regarding nursing home inspections in each county; and requiring the Office of Health Care Quality, beginning July 1, 2025, to report to the local area agency on aging for each county the name of each nursing home in the county that was surveyed in the immediately preceding 6 months and the date each survey was conducted. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB740 | Health Care Facilities - Service Member Community Members (SFC Matthew Fast Act ) | Authorizing each health care facility to screen each patient for information on whether the patient is a service member community member, include on the patient's medical record whether the patient is a service member community member, and meet certain standards established by The Joint Commission for the purpose of improving health care equity for warrior community members; and defining "service member community member" to mean a service member, a veteran, a certain spouse, a certain child, or a certain stepchild. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB981 | Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies | Excluding a civil action on a certain contract between a hospital and a consumer from a certain provision of law establishing the statute of limitations on civil actions on certain specialties; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to the notice requirements relating to a hospital's financial assistance policy; prohibiting a hospital from filing a civil action to collect a debt against a patient whose outstanding debt is at or below $500; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB116 | Data Center Impact Analysis and Report | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energy, and economic impacts of data center development in the State; and requiring the Department of Legislative Services to coordinate preparation of the final report to be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly by September 1, 2026. | Vetoed |
| SB73 | Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program - Renaming | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB533 | Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges | Altering the deadlines for the completion of the process of review and investigation by a certain investigating unit through disposition by an administrative charging committee under certain circumstances; and requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative charges arising out of an investigation of alleged police officer misconduct that is not required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 1 year and 1 day after the date that the appropriate official of the law enforcement agency became aware of the incident. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB372 | Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2025 | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care services provided through telehealth on a certain basis and at a certain rate; altering the circumstances under which health care practitioners are authorized to prescribe certain controlled dangerous substances for the treatment of pain through telehealth; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB785 | Labor and Employment - Unpaid Parental Leave - Definition of Employer | Altering the definition of "employer" to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB502 | Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB46 | Real Property - Wrongful Detainer - Time of Hearing and Service of Process | Requiring a certain hearing to be held not more than 10 business days after a certain complaint is filed; and altering requirements relating to service of process in a wrongful detainer action. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB62 | Task Force on Education Funding and Student Population Growth | Establishing the Task Force on Education Funding and Student Population Growth to analyze the challenges related to the delay in student enrollment counts and its effect on school funding and the connection between growing student populations and the provision of school funding; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 15, 2025. | Dead |
| SB8 | Education - Maryland Civic Excellence Program - Established | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in the State; establishing minimum criteria for the award of a Seal of Civic Excellence and designation as a Center of Civic Excellence; and requiring participating local school systems to submit an annual report to the Department of Education beginning July 1, 2027. | Dead |
| SB884 | Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a Class B commercial driver's license with a school bus or passenger vehicle endorsement to nonresidents of Maryland who hold an equivalent commercial driver's license and the appropriate equivalent endorsement from the driver's licensing authority of a neighboring state. | Dead |
| SB948 | Children - Parental Rights - Educational Rights | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; and establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a certain policy. | Dead |
| SB524 | Higher Education - Religious Educational Institutions - Certificate of Approval | Exempting certain religious educational institutions accredited by certain accrediting bodies from the requirement to obtain a certificate of approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to operate in the State. | Dead |
| SB557 | Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Tax and Associated Mandated Devices - Prohibition (Transportation Freedom Act of 2025) | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a privately owned vehicle to facilitate the reporting of vehicle miles traveled; etc. | Dead |
| SB483 | Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap with certain lots, parcels, or tracts of land. | Dead |
| SB643 | Public Utilities – Energy Generation | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; stating the General Assembly's support for the development of additional nuclear energy in the State; and stating that the General Assembly encourages PJM Interconnection, LLC to provide an expedited interconnection process for new thermal generation resources in the State. | Dead |
| SB478 | Public Utilities - Solar Energy Generating Stations - Local Approval | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each county or municipal corporation where the generating station is proposed to be located. | Dead |
| SB952 | Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Overhead Transmission Lines - Grid Enhancing Technologies | Adding grid enhancing technologies to the list of requirements the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of an overhead transmission line. | Dead |
| SB953 | Construction and Expansion of Transmission Lines and Task Force to Develop a Realistic Electricity Plan for Maryland | Establishing the Task Force to Develop a Realistic Electricity Plan for Maryland to study and make recommendations on the State's current and future electricity needs under various scenarios; and prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving the construction or expansion of transmission lines in the State from July 1, 2025, through May 1, 2026. | Dead |
| SB947 | Maryland Co-Location Energy Innovation and Reliability Act | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations related to the construction of a generating station that is co-located with a data center but is not interconnected with the electric transmission system or electric distribution system. | Dead |
| SB950 | Natural Gas Generating Facilities - Authorization | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the owners and operators of natural gas generating facilities in the State to decrease the production of energy from natural gas after the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources. | Dead |
| SB965 | Public Health - Women's Health Care Data - Report | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive health care data report each December 1, beginning in 2025; and requiring the report to include the aggregated cost data for certain categories of care, comparative data by region within the State, analysis of trends in the cost of care, and recommendations for improving cost efficiency. | Dead |
| SB528 | Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Day - Veterans' Day | Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eligibility for the exemption; and providing that evidence of eligibility may consist of a valid driver's license or government-issued identification card that includes a notation indicating that the individual is a veteran. | Dead |
| SB735 | Real Time for Violent Crime Act (Geri's Law) | 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. | Dead |
| SB836 | Corporate Income Tax - Rate Reduction (Economic Competitiveness Act of 2025) | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%. | Dead |
| SB700 | Notarial Acts - Reasonable Accommodations | Requiring a notary public to provide certain reasonable accommodations to individuals with a physical disability that limits the individual's ability to sign a record without assistance, including specifying that a notary public shall notarize the signature of an individual who is blind after the notary public reads the entire record to that individual and the individual assents to the notarization after the reading. | Dead |
| SB701 | Public Health - Cottage Food Products - Nonpotentially Hazardous Foods and Refrigerated Baked Goods | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" for purposes of provisions of law governing the sale of cottage food products to include nonpotentially hazardous foods, rather than nonhazardous foods, as specified in regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health, and refrigerated baked goods. | Dead |
| SB779 | Climate Solutions Now Act Affordability Act of 2025 | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain buildings, measuring and reporting direct emissions data to the Department of the Environment, achieving certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, and achieving zero-emission vehicle goals relating to the State vehicle fleet and local school buses; etc. | Dead |
| SB479 | Building Energy Performance Standards - Public Safety, Emergency, and Public Utility Buildings - Exclusion | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings. | Dead |
| SB838 | Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Signature Requirements and Verification | Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circumstances, a witness and the local board verify the voter's signature; and providing that the witness signature requirement does not apply to active duty uniformed services members serving overseas or their spouses or dependents who live overseas. | Dead |
| SB886 | Amendments Convention Called Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution - Delegation to the Convention | Requiring the General Assembly to appoint a delegation to an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution and an advisory committee under certain circumstances and in accordance with certain requirements; providing for the membership of the delegation; providing for the qualifications, oath, compensation, and duties of a commissioner to the delegation; establishing the operations of the delegation and the advisory committee; etc. | Dead |
| SB933 | Criminal Law - Causing Ingestion of an Abortion-Inducing Drug - Prohibition (Women's Freedom From Coercion Act) | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force. | Dead |
| SB699 | Forest Conservation Act - Linear Projects - Alteration | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025. | Dead |
| SB791 | Public Schools - Career Ladder - Teacher Classroom Teaching Time | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60 to 80%. | Dead |
| SB482 | Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions. | Dead |
| SB783 | Public Schools – Student Fights – School Investigation and Discipline | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to protect the student or to escape the attack; and requiring a principal or school administration to expunge certain documentation from a student's disciplinary record under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| SB659 | Consumer Protection - Electronic Funds Transfers - Regulations (Elder Fraud Prevention Act of 2025) | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; etc. | Dead |
| SB558 | General Assembly - Fiscal Notes - Family Impact Statement | Requiring the fiscal note for proposed legislation prepared by the Department of Legislative Services to include a family impact statement; and prohibiting a committee from voting on a bill unless a family impact statement is attached to or included in the fiscal note. | Dead |
| SB1034 | State Budget - Budget Bill - Executive and Legislative Powers | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution altering certain executive and legislative powers concerning the Budget Bill; repealing certain provisions authorizing the Governor to approve, disapprove, or veto items in the Budget Bill; repealing provisions authorizing the General Assembly to amend certain items in enacting a balanced Budget Bill; and submitting the amendment to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or rejection. | Dead |
| SB658 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Provisions | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy. | Dead |
| SB563 | Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund - Establishment (Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Act) | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring $1,450,000 of proceeds from the State lottery, before being allocated to the General Fund, to be allocated to the Fund; and repealing the requirement that a certain amount of annual proceeds from the State horse racing special fund be used to promote State agricultural fairs and education. | Dead |
| SB332 | Task Force to Study the Premature Retirement of Electricity Generation Facilities | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Premature Retirement of Electricity Generation Facilities; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations to address challenges and enhance decision making regarding the premature retirement of electricity generation facilities, and that include energy reliability solutions that address the imminent reliability gap and balance the need between economic considerations and cleaner energy goals; and requiring the Task Force to report on or before January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| SB660 | Family Law - Child Support Guidelines - Agreement Between Parents | Establishing a presumption that the application of the child support guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate if the parents mutually assert that the separation or property settlement agreement is in the best interest of the child. | Dead |
| SB551 | Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Collisions With Wild Animals - Prohibited Actions by Insurers | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium, adding a surcharge, or removing, altering, or refusing to consider a discount based on accidents or losses caused by a collision with a free-roaming wild animal and for which the insured was not at fault for the loss. | Dead |
| SB644 | Public Schools - School Resource Officers - Firearms Required | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned. | Dead |
| SB604 | Criminal Law - Distribution of Heroin or Fentanyl Causing Serious Bodily Injury or Death (Victoria, Scottie, Ashleigh, and Yader's Law) | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and, in addition to any other penalty imposed for a certain violation, on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 20 years. | Dead |
| SB657 | Eminent Domain - Just Compensation - Fees and Costs | Establishing that damages to be awarded for the taking of land in a condemnation proceeding include, in addition to the fair market value of the land taken, any legal, expert, or other fees or costs of the action incurred by a defendant. | Dead |
| SB661 | Real Property - Condemnation - Compensation for Farm and Agricultural Property (Protect Maryland Farm Lands Act) | Requiring the fair market value of certain agricultural property taken in a condemnation proceeding to be valued at 350% of the highest appraisal value of the property; and applying the Act retroactively to condemnation proceedings initiated on or after January 1, 2024. | Dead |
| SB531 | Juvenile Law - Custodial Interrogation (Juvenile Justice Restoration Act of 2025) | 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. | Dead |
| SB565 | Motor Vehicles - Accidents - Required Testing for Impaired Driving (Mateo's Law) | Requiring any person involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in the death of, or a life threatening injury to, another person to submit to breath and blood testing for impaired driving. | Dead |
| SB556 | Real Property - Fraudulent Possession and Unauthorized Lease or Listing - Prohibition and Removal | Prohibiting the knowing and willful presentation of certain false documents in order to possess real property; prohibiting a person from leasing to another real property the person does not own or is not authorized to lease and from listing or advertising for sale real property if the person knows the purported seller is not the owner of the property; etc. | Dead |
| SB336 | Gun Theft Felony Act of 2025 | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalties for a first conviction of imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both, and for subsequent convictions, imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both, for theft of a firearm. | Dead |
| SB29 | Education - Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program - Establishment | Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; and requiring the eligible school systems to submit a report on the effectiveness of the Pilot Program on or before September 1, 2026. | Dead |
| SB112 | Criminal Law - Second Degree Assault - Sports Official | Prohibits a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, an umpire, a referee, or a judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizes a police officer to arrest a person without a warrant if the police officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a certain assault; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor of assault in the second degree and is subject to certain penalties. | Dead |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB181 | Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB185 | Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB100 | Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB102 | Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB259 | Election Law - Local Boards of Elections - Election Plan Requirements | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB26 | Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB123 | Boating Accidents - Duty to Stop at the Scene, Render Assistance, and Provide Information - Penalties | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB15 | Child Support - Driver's License Suspension for Arrearages and Court Orders | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB49 | Consumer Protection - Automatic Renewals | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB252 | Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB148 | State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB262 | Election Law - Special Elections | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB1 | Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB147 | County Boards of Education - Student Technology Use Policy - Requirements | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB144 | Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB127 | State Government - Grants and Contracts - Reimbursement of Indirect Costs | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB71 | Education - Holocaust Education Assistance Grant Program - Established | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB116 | Data Center Impact Analysis and Report | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB222 | Public Safety - Fuel Gas Piping Systems and Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing - Prohibitions and Study | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB46 | Real Property - Wrongful Detainer - Time of Hearing and Service of Process | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB293 | Criminal Procedure - Child Victims - Testimony in Child Abuse Cases | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB292 | Cooperative Housing Corporations, Condominiums, and Homeowners Associations - Funding of Reserve Accounts and Preparation of Funding Plans | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB322 | Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB322 | Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration | Floor Amendment 793125/1 (Senator Folden) Rejected | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB299 | Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB294 | Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB281 | Transportation Equality for Service Members Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB337 | State Lottery Fund - Laurel Race Course - Local Impact Aid | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB350 | Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB411 | State Designations – State Mineral – Chromite (State Mineral Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB427 | State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB352 | Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB399 | Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With a Professional Major League Baseball Team | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB352 | Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB351 | Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2025, and the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 | Third Readings Passed with Amendments | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB338 | Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB338 | Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 | Conference Committee Report 903525/1 Adopted | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB341 | Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With a Professional Major League Baseball Team | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB357 | Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB361 | Election Law - Influence on a Voter's Voting Decision By Use of Fraud - Prohibition | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB365 | Department of Commerce – Nonprofit Organizations Navigator – Established | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB360 | Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB376 | Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB478 | Hagerstown Community College Police Force - Jurisdiction | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB497 | Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB399 | Natural Resources - Wildland Areas - Overhead Transmission Lines | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Abstain |
| SB400 | Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB517 | Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB500 | Procurement Reform Act of 2025 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB541 | Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB451 | Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB504 | Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB586 | Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB614 | Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB474 | Health Insurance - Adverse Decisions - Notices, Reporting, and Examinations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB634 | Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB633 | Gaming - Slot Machines - Skills-Based Amusement Devices | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB619 | Sales and Use Tax - Sales Between Cannabis Businesses and Cannabis Nurseries - Exemption | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB618 | State Lottery - Internet Sales of Subscription Plans - Authorization | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB617 | Comptroller - Recording and Monitoring Telephone Calls - Clarification | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB533 | Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB702 | County Boards of Education - Special Education Service Delivery Models - Publication Requirement | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB658 | Juvenile Services Education Board - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB550 | Baltimore City - Property Tax - Authority to Impose on Vacant and Abandoned Property Owned by Nonprofit Organizations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB704 | Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB561 | Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB681 | Child Support - Driver's License Suspension for Arrearages and Court Orders | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB600 | Baltimore City and Takoma Park - Stop Sign Monitoring Systems - Authorization of Pilot Program | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB738 | Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB596 | Property Tax Exemption and Payment in Lieu of Taxes - The Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc. | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB750 | Washington County - Property Tax Credit - Economic Development Projects | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB757 | Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB608 | Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB826 | Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs - Repeal of Interdepartmental Advisory Committee and Establishment of the Governor's Subcabinet on Socioeconomic Procurement Participation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB820 | Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Use of Artificial Intelligence | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB793 | University System of Maryland - Academic Facilities Bonding Authority | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB655 | Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB653 | Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB662 | Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages Licenses - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB839 | Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB782 | Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB881 | Family Investment Program - Child Support | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB881 | Family Investment Program - Child Support | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB888 | Education - Initial Teacher Certification - Qualifications | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB877 | Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission - Reporting and Sunset Extension | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB689 | Financial Institutions - Conventional Home Mortgage Loans - Assumption and Required Disclosures | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB860 | Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB683 | Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, Protection of Federal Benefits, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) | Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Ready) Rejected | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB683 | Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund, Protection of Federal Benefits, and Powers of the Attorney General - Alterations (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB857 | Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB865 | Catastrophic Event Account - Transfer of Funds - State Disaster Recovery Fund | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB764 | State Designations - State Cocktail and State Mineral - Original Maryland Orange Crush and Chromite | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB773 | Health Benefit Plans - Calculation of Cost-Sharing Contribution - Requirements | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB1007 | Disability and Life Insurance - Medical Information (Genetic Testing Protection Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB740 | Health Care Facilities - Service Member Community Members (SFC Matthew Fast Act ) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB996 | Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB945 | Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB988 | Montgomery County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Maryland Route 200 (Intercounty Connector) MC 10-25 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB933 | Nursing Homes - Cost Reports | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB1016 | Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Maryland Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee | 9 | |
| Detail | Maryland Joint Federal Action Oversight Committee | 11 | |
| Detail | Maryland Joint Legislative Policy Committee | 10 | |
| Detail | Maryland Senate Executive Nominations Committee | 14 | |
| Detail | Maryland Senate Finance Committee | 10 | |
| Detail | Maryland Senate Rules Committee | 11 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD | Maryland Senate District 05 | Senate | Republican | In Office | 02/02/2015 | |
| MD | District 5 | House | Republican | Out of Office | 01/12/2011 | 01/31/2024 |