I had the opening night jitters.

Today was my first bill hearing of the session.

House Bill 128 would make it a crime to intimidate or harass a witness before a committee in Annapolis.

It’s already a crime to do that with a witness in a judicial setting.

That’s the point I made in my written testimony and in my dialogue with the committee at the bill hearing.

We’ve done this already.

My bill’s language is copied from the existing law protecting witnesses in the court system.

When I didn’t know the specific answer to a question, I said that how that law has been interpreted would be determinative.

My next step: ask the committee chairman what he thought of my bill.