![]() This session he is introducing legislation to compel all convicted domestic abusers to surrender their firearms. ![]() Last year, he was applauded by the Maryland chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America for introducing legislation to close a gap in the state’s gun laws that allows a person convicted of a domestic violence crimes to leave the courthouse and go home to his guns, even when prohibited from possessing them. ![]() Jamie cosponsored a bill enacted in 2009 that mandates that if a protective order is issued in a domestic violence case, the respondent must surrender his firearms, for the duration of the order.Jamie has sponsored legislation to allow graduate assistants and adjunct faculty-positions often held by women and characterized by low pay, non-existent benefits and minimal job security-access to collective bargaining rights to ensure they receive fair compensation.įighting Domestic Violence and Securing Protections for Victims of RapeĪs a member of the Senate’s Judicial Proceedings Committee, Jamie has been a leader in the fight against domestic violence.Jamie cosponsored legislation that would require Maryland colleges and universities to have effective policies addressing sexual assault on campus and offer victim-centered and fair responses to sexual assault complaints.Now, girls can no longer be forced to study cosmetology or home economics while boys learn auto mechanics or physical education, and girls can no longer be excluded from alternatives to incarceration available to boys (allowing them to live at home and go to school, while monitored). Jamie successfully championed legislation in 2011 ending gender disparities in state juvenile justice programs.Removing Barriers to Educational Opportunity for Women and Girls Jamie’s bill to strengthen remedies available in employment discrimination cases brought in Maryland-authorizing compensatory damages and a jury trial, among other things-became law in 2007.In Maryland, women are 50% of the workforce but account for nearly 60% of minimum-wage workers. As chairman of Montgomery County’s Senate delegation, Jamie successfully organized his colleagues to support a long-overdue minimum wage hike for Maryland workers.Jamie was the Senate floor leader for legislation enacted in 2013 that requires reasonable accommodations for pregnant women at work.Supreme Court made it harder for women to prevail under federal law when denied equal pay for equal work, Jamie acted fast-he introduced and moved to passage the Lilly Ledbetter Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2009, which reformed the statute of limitations for victims of gender discrimination to start only when the victim learned of the discrimination. Jamie is also a co-sponsor this session of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, which would require employers with more than nine employees to provide them earned paid sick leave.This session, Jamie introduced legislation with Senator Susan Lee to strengthen Maryland’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act-the bill would protect employees against retaliation and adverse action for speaking about their wages to others.Jamie introduced and shepherded a law to enactment in 2014 that prohibits the shackling of pregnant inmates in Maryland’s prisons during childbirth, to ensure healthy births for incarcerated women.Jamie joined in introducing a bill to require that so-called pregnancy centers that fail to offer or refer for abortions or provide comprehensive contraceptive services must disclose that they are not offering medical advice and that the information they provide may not be factually accurate.In March 2015, when Republicans tried to eliminate Medicaid funding for abortion, Jamie went to the floor, blew the whistle, and led the successful effort to defeat the bill. Jamie fights back when anti-choice legislators in Annapolis try to roll back reproductive rights.Protecting Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights He doesn’t just talk the talk or even just vote the right way he builds coalitions and gets things done. Here are just a few examples of Jamie’s leadership on issues of particular importance to women since entering the State Senate in 2007. Many of these laws focus on issues critical to women. A dynamic force for change, he has seen more than 100 of his bills enacted into law. Maryland State Senator and Democratic Majority Whip Jamie Raskin has been rated one of Maryland’s “Most Effective Legislators” (Gazette of Politics and Business), “Montgomery County’s Most Responsive Elected Official” (Silver Spring Voice), a “ Hero to Working Families” (Progressive Maryland) and “ one of the nation’s most talented state legislators” (Huffington Post).
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