I’m still batting 1.000, but that won’t last.

       The two bills I wrote about last week remain in good shape.

       The Senate version of my bill to allow medical practitioners to provide care to homeless youth got a favorable committee report. Monday afternoon, I’ll be discussing my legislation to protect professors’ research and creative work with the subcommittee chairman and the lobbyist for the University of Maryland System.

       Thursday was the deadline to introduce bills and be guaranteed a public hearing.

       I now have 29 bills in the hopper.

       I don’t expect all of them to become law – this session. Several I introduced to start discussing an issue.

       Some positive developments to report on some of those bills:

       House Bill 460 would require the police to get a warrant before they contact your service provider to learn where you were when you used your mobile communications device. After we met this week, prosecutors are drafting amendments to the bill, instead of opposing it.

       I already knew that advocates for senior citizens were enthused about House Bill 991, which would create a task force to study how to assist seniors with minor repairs needed to maintain their homes. I learned that state housing officials are interested as well.

       You can’t use someone else’s image to promote your business without their consent. Several states protect the commercial value of an individual’s identity even after they die. House Bill 557 would add Maryland to that list. Yesterday I learned that a prominent Marylander may have assigned his publicity rights to another state because his estate would not be protected here.

       No doubt actions have already been taken or planned to kill some of my bills, but I don’t know about them – yet.