Friday, March 5 – Nothing is guaranteed

No votes were taken today, but progress to report on several bills.

Two of my bills have been assigned to subcommittees.

That’s no guarantee of favorable action. Nothing is guaranteed in the legislative process.

But a committee chair doesn’t ask members to work on a bill that the chair wants to kill.

On the Cigarette Restitution Fund, the interested parties had positive discussions about how to streamline the distribution of funds to reduce smoking among teens and treat those with tobacco-related illnesses.

Amendments have been drafted on my bill to require stockholder approval before a Maryland corporation can make an independent political expenditure. I’ve shared these changes with the people who expressed concerns at the hearing on the Senate version of this legislation.

My objective for one of my bills is a legitimate summer study. The chair of the committee that would conduct that review is interested in doing so.