Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
👤 Member Senate
📅 Not Scheduled
175 bills pending
Katie Fry Hester — Senate District 9
🔵 Democrat
👍 0 Partner Likes
📜 22 Primary Authored Bills
📈 8 policy measures passed
🗳 1244 Individual Votes Observed
🏛 2 Committee Assignments
Voting Similarity
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Compared only with current senate members on explicit yes-or-no votes from non-unanimous roll calls. Maryland's configured final-vote patterns retain substantive final action; procedural and unanimous votes are excluded. Each percentage measures agreement, and the shared-vote count shows how much common voting history supports it.
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D
Craig J. Zucker
99.6%
agreement
247 shared votes
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D
Guy Guzzone
99.6%
agreement
245 shared votes
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D
Bill Ferguson
99.6%
agreement
243 shared votes
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D
Brian J. Feldman
99.6%
agreement
242 shared votes
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D
William C. Smith Jr.
99.6%
agreement
237 shared votes
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D
Jeff Waldstreicher
99.6%
agreement
229 shared votes
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R
Justin Ready
23.9%
agreement
247 shared votes
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R
Johnny Mautz
25.4%
agreement
244 shared votes
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R
Jason C. Gallion
26.6%
agreement
248 shared votes
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R
Stephen S. Hershey Jr.
28.1%
agreement
224 shared votes
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R
Paul D. Corderman
28.7%
agreement
244 shared votes
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R
Jack Bailey
30.1%
agreement
236 shared votes
Organization Alignment
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Alignment compares this legislator's explicit yes-or-no votes with each public organization's current bill likes and dislikes. Only Maryland's configured substantive final-vote patterns count; procedural votes are excluded. The shared-vote count is the number of graded bills on which both cast a position.
No public organization has comparable final-vote history for this legislator yet.
Committee Assignments
Rules Committee
🏛️ Chair Senate
📅 Not Scheduled
58 bills pending
Primary Authored Bills
StateLens credits bill likes to the first-listed primary author. The activity pills below reconcile to this profile's partner-like totals.
SB720
Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines, Professional Development, and Collaborative (Artificial Intelligence Ready Schools Act)
May 26, 2026Signed by Governor
SB597
Higher Education - Maryland Artificial Intelligence Partnership
May 26, 2026Signed by Governor
SB825
Public Safety - Critical Infrastructure Protection
May 12, 2026Signed by Governor
SB8
Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations
May 12, 2026Signed by Governor
SB141
Election Law - Election Misinformation, Election Disinformation, and Deepfakes
May 12, 2026Signed by Governor
SB828
State Finance - Delinquent Federal Funds (Federal Obligations Enforcement Act)
April 28, 2026Signed by Governor
SB599
On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program - Established
April 28, 2026Signed by Governor
SB601
Cybersecurity - Standards and Compliance - Alterations
April 14, 2026Signed by Governor
SB300
Economic Development - Rural Readiness Program and Rural Maryland Capacity Building Fund - Establishment
April 8, 2026Pending: House
SB992
Public Utilities - Large Load Customers - Registration and Demand Response Program
March 6, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB596
Large Load Customers - Electric System Interconnection and Demand Response Program
February 24, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB598
Electric Companies - Cost Containment Plans - Requirement (Securing Affordable, Valuable Investments in Next Generation Grid Solutions (SAVINGS) Act)
February 23, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB299
County Boards of Education - Therapy Dogs - Policy for Handling and Use in Schools
February 19, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB963
Maryland Department of Health - Medicaid Management Information System - Mainframe System Replacement
February 13, 2026Pending: Senate Rules
SB826
Income Tax – Angel Investor Tax Credit for Investments in Emergent Technology
February 13, 2026Pending: Senate Budget and Taxation
SB827
Consumer Protection and Product Liability - Chatbots
February 12, 2026Pending: Senate Finance
SB616
Business Regulation - Data Broker Registry
February 11, 2026Pending: Senate Finance
SB602
Algorithmic Addiction Fund - Establishment
February 9, 2026Pending: Senate Finance
SB600
Sales and Use Tax - Definition of Retail Sale - Alterations
February 5, 2026Pending: Senate Budget and Taxation
SB183
Public Safety - Maryland Cyber Reserve - Established
February 3, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB121
Personal Information - Public Servant Protections
February 3, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment
SB2
Investor-Owned Electric, Gas, and Gas and Electric Companies - Cost Recovery - Limitations
January 27, 2026Pending: Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment