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2006 CONGRATS LETTERS
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"I
support Delegate Hubbard for re-election. Jim has distinguished
himself as a champion in strengthening laws protecting children,
families, and women's rights."
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski
"I enthusiastically endorse James W. Hubbard's candidacy
for re-election to the House of Delegates. His work on behalf of
all citizens shows his leadership abilities, and I look forward
to working with him for the next four years."
U.S. Congressman Albert Wynn
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Over the years, I have had the opportunity to
initiate and support measures to improve our quality of life—for
your family and mine. I've been privileged to be your voice
in Annapolis fighting for better education, health and hospital
care, the environment, police protection and public safety,
rights of the developmentally disabled, as well as many other
areas.
- HB 189 - Healthy Air Act (enacted)
This law requires coal fired plants in maryland to adhere
to higher standards regarding the plants pollution output.
This will save taxpayers money because healthier air will
require less medical costs for marylanders. This law also
includes Maryland in a regional initiative of Mid-Atlantic
states to assist each other in protecting the air in all
states.
- HB 1467 - Maryland Cares (enacted)
The purpose of the program is to assist Medicare beneficiaries
(including beneficiaries with disabilities and those who
are at least 65 years old) in obtaining Medicare Part D
prescription drug benefits. Due to the many programmatic
problems citizens have encountered signing up for Medicare
Part D, this measure is critical to the health and well-being
of older individuals and individuals with disabilities.
- HB 1542 - Maryland Quality Home Care Services
Act (enacted)
This law established a Personal Assistance Services Advisory
Committee in the Office of Individuals with Disabilities.
Historically, individual care providers, workers who provide
direct care services such as housekeeping, bathing, and
dressing for seniors and people with disabilities in their
homes, have been plagued by low wages and a high turnover
rate, making it difficult for consumers to hire and retain
qualified providers and making it difficult for providers
to earn enough to support themselves. place. House Bill
1542 seeks to stabilize and support this workforce in three
ways: 1.) by creating a commission that sets training requirements
for individual care providers, 2.) by providing referrals
of qualified individual care providers to consumers, and
3.) by giving consumers a voice in policy making and implementation.
In short, a network of better-skilled, more-accountable
providers will support engaged and empowered consumers.
- HB 240 - Public Schools - Interstate Transfer
of Military Personnel Dependents - Reciprocity Agreements
(enacted)
This law requires the State Board of Education to pursue
reciprocity agreements with other states regarding the terms
of transfer of school-aged student dependents of military
personnel to from public schools of this state. A reciprocity
agreement would require the timely transfer of student records,
awarding credit for completed course work, allowing graduation
requirements to be met through successful completion of
comparable courses in another state, and allowance of a
student to satisfy the requirements of state high school
assessments through successful performance on comparable
assessments administered in another state.
- HB 61 - Qualified Hybrid Vehicles - Exemption
from Motor Vehicle Emissions Test and Inspection Requirements
(enacted)
This law exempts qualified hybrid vehicles from mandatory
tests and inspections required by the State of Maryland,
provided the vehicle obtains a rating from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency of at least 50 miles per gallon during
city fuel economy tests. A hybrid vehicle is defined as
a vehicle that meets all applicable regulatory requirements,
meets the current vehicle exhaust standard, and can draw
propulsion energy from both gasoline or diesel fuel and
a rechargeable energy storage system.
- HB 478 - Money Follows the Individual Act (enacted)
This law requires the State of Maryland to offer everyone
residing in nursing homes who qualify under certain waivers
the opportunity to move back into the community. The money
used for nursing home care would follow the individual into
their new setting in the community for needed supports.
This will provide individuals with disabilities opportunities
for employment, more self-directed housing and community
partnerships.
- Increase community-based policing.
- Add more police officers on the streets and
in our neighborhoods.
- Expand the Emergency Medical Services Program
and hire more firefighters.
- Implement programs to deter juvenile crime
and drug addiction.
- Ensure safe and affordable before and after
school child care.
- Identify alternative funding sources and
programs for victims of domestic violence and child abuse.
- Enforce harsher criminal penalties for child
abusers and abductors.
- Support home health care and assisted living
options for senior citizens.
- Accelerate the construction and renovation
of neighborhood schools.
- Decrease class sizes.
- Expand recruitment efforts to hire more certified
teachers and guidance counselors.
- Guarantee that each child will have access
to modern and innovative learning tools in an environment
that encourages educational progress for all students.
- Encourage expansion of vocational education
in schools.
- Support funding for special education to
meet every child’s needs.
- Increase funding for targeted early childhood education
(0-6).
- Develop comprehensive economic development
plans to better utilize our local universities to stimulate
business investment.
- Encourage an environment that will promote
and nurture small business.
- Work with the business community to develop
effective workforce strategies and develop public-private
partnerships.
- Accelerate public transportation initiatives.
- Vigorously enforce environmental laws to
ensure healthier places in which to live and work.
- Protect the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent River
Basin through a working coalition of community, business,
environmental and government agencies.
- Promote “Smart Growth” through
reasonable land use controls and transportation planning.
- Oppose the construction of new trash transfer
stations.
- Require HMOs to be legally responsible for
their medical decisions.
- Increase the frequency of State quality reviews
of HMO services.
- Expand programs providing mammograms, clinical
examinations, and follow-up diagnosis and treatment.
- Expand Maryland’s Senior Prescription
Plan to include all senior citizens.
- Ensure that all uninsured children are included
in Maryland’s managed care program.
- Schools – Voted
for a record $1.2 billion in new State aid over the
next five years for Prince George’s County Public
Schools. This will help to lower class sizes, open
new schools, increase educators’ salaries and
provide new equipment and textbooks. Primary sponsor
of legislation enacted to require parental notification
of pesticide use in schools.
- Public Safety –
Supported strengthening the State’s domestic
violence law to protect victims. Successfully sponsored
statute to strengthen child support enforcement laws
in Maryland.
- Health Care –
Voted to support patient’ rights to appeal insurance
company decisions. Supported the Maryland Senior Prescription
Plan to ensure the set-aside of money to help reimburse
uninsured seniors for the cost of prescription drugs.
Worked to prohibit the immediate conversion of Blue
Cross/Blue Shield to a for-profit company.
- Individuals with Disabilities
– Primary sponsor of historic legislation that
now allows individuals with disabilities to receive
State services in their own homes or supportive community
settings.
- Environment –
Primary sponsor of enacted legislation to extend protection
of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Successfully
sponsored more stringent safe drinking water standards
and co-sponsored legislation that prohibited the building
of a new trash transfer station next to Bowie State
University.
- Establish a Biological Agents Registry
Program to help safeguard the citizens of Maryland.
– enacted
- Ensure that non-custodial parents must
pay medical child support payments and remove interstate
barriers to the collection of child support payments
from “deadbeat” parents. – enacted
- Target the causes of asthma, especially
in children, through the Asthma Intervention/Prevention
Program. – enacted
- Establish a Statewide Lead Paint Poison
Screening Program to reduce lead poisoning in children.
– enacted
- Strengthen citizens’ rights to
be informed and contest pollution, which was the priority
bill of Maryland’s environmental groups. –
enacted
- Implement a Statewide Advisory Commission
to identify potential children’s vaccine shortages.
– enacted
- Establish the Human Subject Research
Protection Program to protect human research participants,
which is now the subject of national discussion. –
enacted
- Prohibit the use of mercury in commercial
products to safeguard children, adults, and the environment.
- enacted
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