Samuel I. “Sandy” Rosenberg has been a member of the House for Delegates since 1983 and currently serves as chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and House chair of the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review.

His most significant legislative accomplishments are:
• repealing the death penalty
• authorizing state funding of embryonic stem cell research
• writing the holding of Roe v. Wade into Maryland law
• saving the Preakness and initiating the redevelopment of the Pimlico Race Course site
• increasing the use of telehealth to enable a health care provider give advice to a patient who is not physically present
• creating three programs that encourage students to enter public service, by repaying a portion of the educational debt of people who have lower-paying public interest jobs, providing an up-front scholarship to students planning careers in public service, and giving a stipend to students who take public-interest summer jobs
• authorizing Maryland’s Attorney General to challenge the Trump Administration in court when federal action would harm Maryland
• funding the health care provided by Planned Parenthood if a woman chooses to seek treatment there
• requiring the French national railroad company to disclose the role it played in transporting people to their deaths during the Holocaust
• lead paint abatement legislation
• Maryland’s welfare reform law
• the Voters Rights Protection Acts of 2005 and 2006, which expand access to the ballot and deter activities intended to suppress turnout
• extending Maryland’s civil rights law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
• establishing public health priorities for the use of the State’s share of the settlement of the tobacco litigation

Sandy is a graduate of the Baltimore City public schools, Amherst College, and the Columbia University Law School. He co-teaches Legislation at the University of Baltimore and the University of Maryland Law School.