2016 SESSION

2016-01

HB-1476

$3,000,000 every year in Maryland budget for homeless shelters

for Transitional Housing Grant Program to help reduce homelessness.

2016-02

HB-360

Student Loans Waivers  for Orphans and Foster Care Recipients

10% annual relief for student debt incurred for college and professional education.

2016-03

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.

2016-04

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.