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“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Climate Change
The Next Generation Energy Act (SB 937 / HB 1035)-
Update: Check our Digest for a breakdown of what bills were added to this bill. ​
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The Climate and Transportation Alignment Act would expand public transportation, which would will benefit underserved communities with quicker and reliable access to employment, education, health care services and shopping. It would also reduce vehicle miles which will help our state meet the greenhouse gases mandate in the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022.
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Note: HB 84 was amended and passed the House, and was heard in the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee where its companion bill SB 395 was heard earlier. (Updated 3/31/2025)
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Criminal Justice Reform
HB 1198- Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals
(The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act)
Several years ago, a bill was passed to create a women's rehabilitation center and three million dollars was specified to help build the facility. this bill was introduced to alter the required location and timeline for the creation of this life-saving program so that it can be created.
Note: passed the House without amendment and SB 632 has passed the Senate with amendments. The differences between the chambers will need to be reconciled, but neither bill has come out of the committee in the opposite chamber.
Use the Button Below to Write Your lawmaker And Ask Them to Support HB 1198
updated 4/5
Immigration
(SB 828) - Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Access, Guidance, and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act)
This bill would require Attorney General Anthony Brown to issue guidance at the highest level of protection for sensitive locations–schools, hospitals, courthouses, places where children gather–will provide centralized and consistent methods and procedures for all affected places in Maryland.
Note: This bill has passed the Senate but was amended in House Judiciary to include a modified HB 1222 language that requires counties to end their formal agreements to assist ICE, but requires all counties to notify ICE when immigrants convicted of violent crimes or felonies are about to be released. This version will return to the Senate for concurrence with the amendments, or a Conference Committee will need to resolve the differences.
Use the Button Below to Write Your lawmaker And Ask Them to Support SB 828
Updated 4/6/2025
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HB 1222 - End 287g Agreements -
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These Intergovernmental Service Agreements, named for the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act—allows the Department of Homeland Security to enter into formal, written agreements with local political entities to deputize local law enforcement officers to serve as federal immigration agents.
Currently, SEVEN Maryland counties have such agreements:
Frederick, Cecil, Harford, Washington, Carroll, Garrett, and St. Mary’s.
Note: Provisions of this bill have been added to SB 828.
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Use the Button Below to Write Your lawmaker And Ask Them to Support HB 1222
Updated 4/6/2005
HB 207 – Higher Education - Undocumented Students - Out-of-State Tuition Exemption Eligibility
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HB 207 will reduce the number of years an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
Note: This Bill has already passed the House and only needs to pass through the Senate to become law.
Use the Button Below to Write Your lawmaker And Ask Them to Support HB 207
Updated 4/5/2025
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SB 977 - Maryland Data Privacy Act
While we were able to enact legislation to stop the Motor Vehicles Administration of sharing its data with ICE to identify people through their driver licenses, schools and some other state agencies still share data with ICE.
We want to end this practice.
Use the Button Below to Write Your lawmaker And Ask Them to Support SB 977
updated 4/6/2025
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