Amendments are the order of the week. They are the compromise needed to get your bill a favorable report. A subcommittee will make it clear that your bill will move forward only if it’s modified. You want to draft the amendment. You always want to work off of your document. My bill addressing unpaid speeding …more >
My Legislative Diary
Condo Feever (This is not a typo)
Before I was elected to the House of Delegates in 1982, I lobbied the General Assembly for the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development. Throughout the state, apartments were being converted to condominiums. At the end of their lease, tenants, many of them elderly, would have to move. The legislation I helped pass …more >