The Latest

Read Full Digest Here: February 9, 2026 Digest With the Senate deadline to file bills on Monday, February 9 (today), and the House deadline on Friday, February 13, a few more priority bills were introduced last week. Any bills introduced after these deadlines will be referred to the chambers’ respective Rules Committees, requiring a vote of those bodies before referral to a standing committee. Late bills are less likely to get a hearing during the session since a third of the

Read Full Newsletter Here: Feb. 2, 2026 Digest Over the weekend we had our 20th Annual Legislative Kickoff; out of an abundance of caution, the event was held virtually. While Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd had enthusiastically accepted our request to be our Keynote speaker, she had to pull out due to a house fire the weekend before the kickoff. Rev. Dr. Fred Muir, who was leading the centering and worship, did an incredible job explaining UULM-MD's origin story and humble beginni

Read Full Newsletter Here: January 13, 2026 Digest On Wednesday, January 14, the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates will convene for its 90-day session with significant changes in the leadership of the House of Delegates. On December 16, they convened for a Special Session and unanimously elected Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk as the new Speaker of the House, replacing Adrienne Jones (Maryland’s first woman Speaker and first Black Speaker) who stepped down from the positi

Dear Advocate: Thank you for helping Maryland make significant progress in health as a UULM-MD Advocate.  In our 20 years, we have concentrated on: ·        Working to achieve universal access to affordable quality health care primarily with the Health Care for All! Coalition (HCAC) from our start. ·        Working with HCAC to implement and expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) including decreasing uninsured individuals in half to 6% with over 400,000 gaining insuranc