You can get a lot done when it snows…

If you drive to Annapolis before the snow starts and spend the afternoon in your office pecking away at your laptop, with no phone calls or other distractions, provided you don’t read the Sunday NY Times until 5 pm.

If the snow stops in time on Monday for people to make it to your meetings to discuss…

* Your bill requiring the state to inform people that they are eligible to vote after serving their prison sentence and successfully meeting the conditions of their parole and probation. We agreed on how this could be done, without having to enact my legislation; and

* Your bill clarifying when and if a notice must be published if human remains or cremations are moved within a cemetery or outside its boundaries. With bureaucrats, the cemetery industry, and religious groups at the table or participating by conference call, we reached agreement. This time, we need to pass my bill and amend the existing law.

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My first state senator was Rosalie Silber Abrams. She died this past Friday. I spoke about her on the House floor tonight.

In her second year in the House, Rosalie introduced and passed House Bill 273, which authorized the Governor to develop a mechanism for Comprehensive Health Planning.

“That legislation is the foundation for Maryland’s all-payer hospital system,” I stated. That system means that all patients pay the same rate, whether they have private insurance, are Medicaid eligible, or are uninsured.