2016 SESSION
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HB-1476
$3,000,000 every year in Maryland budget for homeless shelters
for Transitional Housing Grant Program to help reduce homelessness.
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HB-360
Student Loans Waivers for Orphans and Foster Care Recipients
10% annual relief for student debt incurred for college and professional education.
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HB-1634
Juvenile Justice Reform
formation of a task force to review Maryland laws about incarcerating, handcuffing, shackling and strip searching of children as young as 7 years old even without conviction of any crime.
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HB-1312/2016
Justice Reinvestment Act
Supported a bi-partisan Floor Amendment requiring that if a child under 13-years of age dies due to physical abuse (starvation, head injury, body burns), the punishment be life imprisonment.