431st Maryland General Assembly

The 431st Maryland General Assembly convened in a regular session on January 8, 2014 and adjourned sine die on April 7, 2014.[1]

Senate

Party composition

Affiliation		Members
	Democratic Party	35
	Republican Party	12
Total		47

Senate leadership

Position	Name	Party	District
President of the Senate	Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.	Democratic	27
President pro tem	Nathaniel J. McFadden	Democratic	45
Majority Leader	James N. Robey	Democratic	13
Majority Whip	Lisa A. Gladden	Democratic	41
Majority Whip	Jamie Raskin	Democratic	20
Minority Leader	David R. Brinkley	Republican	4
Minority Whip	Joseph M. Getty	Republican	5

Membership

District	Jurisdiction(s) represented	Image	Senator	Party	First elected	Primary committee
1	Allegany, Garrett, and Washington		George C. Edwards	Republican	2006	Finance
2	Washington		Christopher B. Shank	Republican	2010	Budget and Taxation
3	Frederick and Washington		Ronald N. Young	Democratic	2010	Education, Health and Environmental Affairs
4	Carroll and Frederick		David R. Brinkley	Republican	2002	Budget and Taxation
5	Baltimore County and Carroll		Joseph M. Getty	Republican	2010	Judicial Proceedings
6	Baltimore County		Norman R. Stone, Jr.	Democratic	1966	Judicial Proceedings
7	Baltimore County and Harford		JB Jennings	Republican	2010	Education, Health, and Environment
8	Baltimore County		Katherine A. Klausmeier	Democratic	2002	Finance
9	Carroll and Howard		Allan H. Kittleman	Republican	2004^[a]	Finance
10	Baltimore County		Delores G. Kelley	Democratic	1994	Finance
11	Baltimore County		Robert Zirkin	Democratic	2006	Budget and Taxation
12	Baltimore County and Howard		Edward J. Kasemeyer	Democratic	1986	Budget and Taxation (Chair)
13	Howard		James N. Robey	Democratic	2006	Budget and Taxation
14	Montgomery		Karen S. Montgomery	Democratic	2010	Budget and Taxation
15	Montgomery		Brian J. Feldman	Democratic	2013	Finance
16	Montgomery		Brian E. Frosh	Democratic	1994	Judicial Proceedings (Chair)
17	Montgomery		Jennie M. Forehand	Democratic	1994	Judicial Proceedings
18	Montgomery		Richard S. Madaleno, Jr.	Democratic	2006	Budget and Taxation
19	Montgomery		Roger Manno	Democratic	2010	Budget and Taxation
20	Montgomery		Jamie Raskin	Democratic	2006	Judicial Proceedings
21	Anne Arundel and Prince George's		James Rosapepe	Democratic	2006	Education, Health, and Environment
22	Prince George's		Paul G. Pinsky	Democratic	1994	Education, Health, and Environment
23	Prince George's		Douglas J.J. Peters	Democratic	2006	Budget and Taxation
24	Prince George's		Joanne C. Benson	Democratic	2010	Finance
25	Prince George's		Ulysses Currie	Democratic	1994	Budget and Taxation
26	Prince George's		C. Anthony Muse	Democratic	2006	Judicial Proceedings
27	Calvert and Prince George's		Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.	Democratic	1974	President of the Senate^[b]
28	Charles		Thomas M. "Mac" Middleton	Democratic	1994	Finance (Chair)
29	Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's		Roy Dyson	Democratic	1994	Education, Health, and Environment (Vice-Chair)
30	Anne Arundel		John Astle	Democratic	1994	Finance (Vice-Chair)
31	Anne Arundel		Bryan Simonaire	Republican	2006	Judicial Proceedings
32	Anne Arundel		James E. DeGrange, Sr.	Democratic	1998	Budget and Taxation
33	Anne Arundel		Edward R. Reilly	Republican	2009^[a]	Education, Health and Environmental Affairs
34	Cecil and Harford		Nancy Jacobs	Republican	1998	Judicial Proceedings
35	Harford		Barry Glassman	Republican	1998	Finance
36	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's		Stephen S. Hershey, Jr.	Republican	2013
37	Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, and Wicomico		Richard F. Colburn	Republican	1994	Education, Health, and Environment
38	Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester		James N. Mathias, Jr	Democratic	2010	Budget and Taxation
39	Montgomery		Nancy J. King	Democratic	2007	Budget and Taxation
40	Baltimore City		Catherine E. Pugh	Democratic	2006	Finance
41	Baltimore City		Lisa A. Gladden	Democratic	2002	Judicial Proceedings (Vice-Chair)
42	Baltimore County		James Brochin	Democratic	2002	Judicial Proceedings
43	Baltimore City		Joan Carter Conway	Democratic	1997^[a]	Education, Health, and Environment (Chair)
44	Baltimore City		Verna L. Jones	Democratic	2002	Budget and Taxation
45	Baltimore City		Nathaniel J. McFadden	Democratic	1994	Budget and Taxation (Vice-Chair)
46	Baltimore City		William Ferguson	Democratic	2010	Education, Health and Environment
47	Prince George's		Victor R. Ramirez	Democratic	2010	Finance

Notes

^a This Senator was originally appointed to office by the Governor to fill an open seat.

^b The President of the Senate does not serve on any of the four standing legislative committees. He does, however, serve on both the Executive Nominations and the Rules Committees.

House of Delegates

Party composition

Affiliation		Members
	Democratic Party	97
	Republican Party	44
Total		141
Democratic majority		67

House leadership

Michael Busch, House Speaker

Position	Name	Party	District
Speaker of the House	Michael E. Busch	Democratic	30
Speaker Pro Tempore	Adrienne A. Jones	Democratic	10
Majority Leader	Kumar P. Barve	Democratic	17
Majority Whip	Talmadge Branch	Democratic	45
Minority Leader	Nic Kipke	Republican	31
Minority Whip	Kathy Szeliga	Republican	7

Membership

Democrat/Republican

Democratic Party

Republican Party

District	Counties represented		Delegate	Party	First elected	Committee
1A	Allegany, Garrett		Wendell R. Beitzel	Republican	2006	Appropriations
1B	Allegany		Kevin Kelly	Democratic	1986	Judiciary
1C	Allegany, Washington		LeRoy Myers	Republican	2002	Ways and Means
2A	Washington		Andrew A. Serafini	Republican	2008[2]	Ways and Means
2B	Washington		Neil Parrott	Republican	2010	Judiciary
2C	Washington		John P. Donoghue	Democratic	1990	Health and Government Operations
3A	Frederick		Galen R. Clagett	Democratic	2002	Economic Matters
3A	Frederick		Patrick N. Hogan	Republican	2010	Environmental Matters
3B	Frederick, Washington		Michael Hough	Republican	2010	Appropriations
4A	Frederick		Kathy Afzali	Republican	2010	Ways and Means
4A	Frederick		Kelly M. Schulz	Republican	2010	Economic Matters
4B	Carroll, Frederick		Donald B. Elliott	Republican	1986	Health and Government Operations
5A	Carroll		Justin Ready	Republican	2010	Health and Government Operations
5A	Carroll		Nancy Stocksdale	Republican	1994	Appropriations
5B	Carroll, Baltimore County		Wade Kach	Republican	1974	Health and Government Operations
6	Baltimore County		Joseph J. Minnick	Democratic	1988[2]	Economic Matters
6	Baltimore County		John Olszewski	Democratic	2006[2]	Ways and Means
6	Baltimore County		Michael H. Weir, Jr.	Democratic	2002	Environmental Matters
7	Baltimore County, Harford		Richard Impallaria	Republican	2002	Economic Matters
7	Baltimore County, Harford		Pat McDonough	Republican	1978[3]	Health and Government Operations
7	Baltimore County, Harford		Kathy Szeliga	Republican	2010	Appropriations
8	Baltimore County		Joe Boteler	Republican	2002	Environmental Matters
8	Baltimore County		Eric M. Bromwell	Democratic	2002	Health and Government Operations
8	Baltimore County		John W. E. Cluster, Jr.	Republican	2010	Judiciary
9A	Howard		Gail H. Bates	Republican	2002[2]	Appropriations
9A	Howard		Warren E. Miller	Republican	2003[2]	Economic Matters
9B	Carroll		Susan W. Krebs	Republican	2002	Ways and Means
10	Baltimore County		Emmett Burns	Democratic	1994	Economic Matters
10	Baltimore County		Adrienne A. Jones	Democratic	1997[2]	Appropriations
10	Baltimore County		Shirley Nathan-Pulliam	Democratic	1994	Health and Government Operations
11	Baltimore County		Jon S. Cardin	Democratic	2002	Ways and Means
11	Baltimore County		Dan K. Morhaim	Democratic	1994	Health and Government Operations
11	Baltimore County		Dana Stein	Democratic	2002[2]	Environmental Matters
12A	Baltimore County, Howard		Steve DeBoy	Democratic	2002	Appropriations
12A	Baltimore County, Howard		James Malone	Democratic	1994	Environmental Matters (Vice-Chair)
12B	Howard		Elizabeth Bobo	Democratic	1994	Environmental Matters
13	Howard		Guy Guzzone	Democratic	2006	Appropriations
13	Howard		Shane Pendergrass	Democratic	1994	Health and Government Operations
13	Howard		Frank S. Turner	Democratic	1994	Ways and Means (Vice-Chair)
14	Montgomery		Anne R. Kaiser	Democratic	2002	Ways and Means
14	Montgomery		Eric Luedtke	Democratic	2010	Ways and Means
14	Montgomery		Craig Zucker	Democratic	2010	Appropriations
15	Montgomery		Kathleen M. Dumais	Democratic	2002	Judiciary (Vice-Chair)
15	Montgomery		David Fraser-Hidalgo	Democratic	2013[2]
15	Montgomery		Aruna Miller	Democratic	2010	Ways and Means
16	Montgomery		William Frick	Democratic	2007[2]	Ways and Means
16	Montgomery		Ariana Kelly	Democratic	2010	Health and Government Operations
16	Montgomery		Susan C. Lee	Democratic	2002[2]	Judiciary
17	Montgomery		Kumar P. Barve	Democratic	1990	Ways and Means
17	Montgomery		James W. Gilchrist	Democratic	2006	Environmental Matters
17	Montgomery		Luiz Simmons	Democratic	1978[4]	Judiciary
18	Montgomery		Alfred C. Carr, Jr.	Democratic	2007[2]	Environmental Matters
18	Montgomery		Ana Sol Gutierrez	Democratic	2002	Appropriations
18	Montgomery		Jeff Waldstreicher	Democratic	2006	Judiciary
19	Montgomery		Sam Arora	Democratic	2010	Judiciary
19	Montgomery		Bonnie Cullison	Democratic	2010	Health and Government Operations
19	Montgomery		Ben Kramer	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
20	Montgomery		Tom Hucker	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
20	Montgomery		Sheila E. Hixson	Democratic	1976[2]	Ways and Means (Chair)
20	Montgomery		Heather R. Mizeur	Democratic	2006	Health and Government Operations
21	Anne Arundel, Prince George's		Barbara A. Frush	Democratic	1994	Environmental Matters
21	Anne Arundel, Prince George's		Ben Barnes	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
21	Anne Arundel, Prince George's		Joseline Pena-Melnyk	Democratic	2006	Health and Government Operations
22	Prince George's		Tawanna Gaines	Democratic	2001[2]	Appropriations
22	Prince George's		Anne Healey	Democratic	1990	Environmental Matters
22	Prince George's		Alonzo T. Washington	Democratic	2012[2]	Ways and Means
23A	Prince George's		James W. Hubbard	Democratic	1992[2]	Health and Government Operations
23A	Prince George's		Geraldine Valentino-Smith	Democratic	2010	Judiciary
23B	Prince George's		Marvin Holmes	Democratic	2002	Environmental Matters
24	Prince George's		Darren Swain	Democratic	2012[2]	Judiciary
24	Prince George's		Carolyn Howard	Democratic	1988[2]	Ways and Means
24	Prince George's		Michael L. Vaughn	Democratic	2002	Economic Matters
25	Prince George's		Aisha N. Braveboy	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
25	Prince George's		Dereck E. Davis	Democratic	1994	Economic Matters (Chair)
25	Prince George's		Melony G. Griffith	Democratic	1998	Appropriations
26	Prince George's		Veronica L. Turner	Democratic	2002	Health and Government Operations
26	Prince George's		Kris Valderrama	Democratic	2006	Judiciary
26	Prince George's		Jay Walker	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
27A	Calvert, Prince George's		Jim Proctor	Democratic	1990[2]	Appropriations (Vice-Chair)
27A	Calvert, Prince George's		Joe Vallario	Democratic	1974	Judiciary (Chair)
27B	Calvert		Mark N. Fisher	Republican	2010	Ways and Means
28	Charles		Peter Murphy	Democratic	2006	Health and Government Operations
28	Charles		Sally Y. Jameson	Democratic	2002	Economic Matters
28	Charles		C.T. Wilson	Democratic	2010	Environmental Matters
29A	Charles, St. Mary's		John F. Wood, Jr.	Democratic	1986	Appropriations
29B	St. Mary's		John Bohanan	Democratic	1999[2]	Appropriations
29C	Calvert, St. Mary's		Tony O'Donnell	Republican	1994	Environmental Matters
30	Anne Arundel		Michael E. Busch	Democratic	1986	Speaker of the House of Delegates
30	Anne Arundel		Ron George	Republican	2006	Ways and Means
30	Anne Arundel		Herb McMillan	Republican	2010	Environmental Matters
31	Anne Arundel		Don Dwyer	Republican	2006
31	Anne Arundel		Nic Kipke	Republican	2002	Health and Government Operations
31	Anne Arundel		Steve Schuh	Republican	2006	Economic Matters
32	Anne Arundel		Pamela Beidle	Democratic	2006	Environmental Matters
32	Anne Arundel		Mary Ann Love	Democratic	1993	Economic Matters
32	Anne Arundel		Ted Sophocleus	Democratic	1992	Appropriations
33A	Anne Arundel		Tony McConkey	Republican	2002	Judiciary
33A	Anne Arundel		Cathy Vitale	Republican	2010	Environmental Matters
33B	Anne Arundel		Robert A. Costa	Republican	2002	Health and Government Operations
34A	Cecil, Harford		Glen Glass	Republican	2010	Judiciary
34A	Cecil, Harford		Mary-Dulany James	Democratic	1998	Appropriations
34B	Cecil		David D. Rudolph	Democratic	1994	Economic Matters (Vice-Chair)
35A	Harford		Wayne Norman	Republican	2007[2]	Environmental Matters
35A	Harford		Donna Stifler	Republican	2006	Economic Matters
35B	Harford		Susan McComas	Republican	2002	Judiciary
36	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's		Steven J. Arentz	Republican	2014	Appropriations
36	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's		Jay Jacobs	Republican	2010	Environmental Matters
36	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's		Michael D. Smigiel	Republican	2002	Judiciary
37A	Dorchester, Wicomico		Rudolph C. Cane	Democratic	1998	Environmental Matters
37B	Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, Wicomico		Addie Eckardt	Republican	1994	Appropriations
37B	Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, Wicomico		Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio	Republican	2002	Economic Matters
38A	Somerset, Wicomico		Charles James Otto	Republican	2010	Environmental Matters
38B	Wicomico, Worcester		Norman Conway	Democratic	1986	Appropriations (Chair)
38B	Wicomico, Worcester		Mike McDermott	Republican	2010	Judiciary
39	Montgomery		Charles E. Barkley	Democratic	1998	Appropriations
39	Montgomery		Kirill Reznik	Democratic	2007[2]	Health and Government Operations
39	Montgomery		Shane Robinson	Democratic	2010	Environmental Matters
40	Baltimore City		Frank Conaway	Democratic	2006	Judiciary
40	Baltimore City		Barbara Robinson	Democratic	2006	Appropriations
40	Baltimore City		Shawn Z. Tarrant	Democratic	2006	Health and Government Operations
41	Baltimore City		Jill P. Carter	Democratic	2002	Judiciary
41	Baltimore City		Nathaniel T. Oaks	Democratic	1982	Health and Government Operations
41	Baltimore City		Sandy Rosenberg	Democratic	1982	Judiciary
42	Baltimore County		Stephen Lafferty	Democratic	2006	Environmental Matters
42	Baltimore County		Susan Aumann	Republican	2002	Appropriations
42	Baltimore County		William J. Frank	Republican	2002	Health and Government Operations
43	Baltimore City		Curt Anderson	Democratic	1982	Judiciary
43	Baltimore City		Maggie McIntosh	Democratic	1992[2]	Environmental Matters (Chair)
43	Baltimore City		Mary L. Washington	Democratic	2010	Appropriations
44	Baltimore City		Keith E. Haynes	Democratic	2002	Appropriations
44	Baltimore City		Keiffer Mitchell	Democratic	2010	Economic Matters
44	Baltimore City		Melvin L. Stukes	Democratic	2006	Ways and Means
45	Baltimore City		Talmadge Branch	Democratic	1994	Ways and Means
45	Baltimore City		Cheryl Glenn	Democratic	2006	Economic Matters
45	Baltimore City		Nina R. Harper	Democratic	2013[2]	Ways and Means
46	Baltimore City		Luke Clippinger	Democratic	2010	Judiciary
46	Baltimore City		Peter A. Hammen	Democratic	1994	Health and Government Operations (Chair)
46	Baltimore City		Brian K. McHale	Democratic	1990	Economic Matters
47	Prince George's		Jolene Ivey	Democratic	2006	Ways and Means
47	Prince George's		Doyle L. Niemann	Democratic	2002	Environmental Matters
47	Prince George's		Michael G. Summers	Democratic	2010	Ways and Means

Notes

1. "Maryland General Assembly". Maryland Legislative Information Systems. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
2. Originally appointed to office to fill an open seat, rather than elected. Each Delegate so marked has been elected in their own right since their appointment.
3. McDonough was originally elected from 1978 to 1982 as a Democrat from Baltimore City. He was again elected to the House of Delegates as a Republican representing Baltimore County in 2002.
4. Simmons was originally elected as a Republican and served from 1978 to 1982, and did not run for re-election to the House of Delegates in 1982. He was again elected to the House of Delegates, this time as a Democrat, in 2002.