Hi There!  It is a pleasure and honor to serve as the State Senator from Maryland Legislative District 17, comprising Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Garrett Park.

Serving in the General Assembly for 30 years, I am responsible for a number of State laws spanning issues from transportation to health care to economic stimulus to criminal law.

My past experience is invaluable in my legislative work this Session.  For example, my bill to prohibit genetic discrimination in underwriting long-term care insurance builds on my past efforts to protect genetic privacy that started with my first legislation on this topic in 1994.

Among other bills I introduced this Session are measures  to:

• Create a safety study of ATVs, unregulated vehicles which cause serious injuries to hundreds of children;

• Strengthen protective orders, ensuring the safety of domestic violence victims;

• Save lives by promoting widespread use of Automatic Electronic Defibrillators;

• Repeal the computer services tax to keep Maryland's hi tech and biotech industries growing;

• Reduce automobile deaths of and injuries to 6- and 7-year-olds by requiring them to use child safety seats.

I hope you will share your ideas on the 2008 Session by e-mailing me at jennie.forehand@senate.state.md.us.  Please include your name and address. 

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