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LEGISLATION & ADVOCACY - MARYLAND
The Maryland Legislative Council* has sent a questionnaire to all the candidates
for delegate and senate in the Maryland General Assembly, asking where they
stand on a variety of mental health issues, specifically:
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the expansion of insurance coverage to Maryland’s uninsured and under-insured
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the regulation of insurers to clarify their responsibilities to their subscribers as well as to providers in and out-of-network, and
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the inclusion of LCSW-Cs in certain specialized areas of practice.
Quite a number of the candidates
found time to complete and return our questionnaires, despite the time
constraints and rigors of campaigning. You can read these responses by clicking
on the names of the candidates below. Each responder is identified by District
and Office Sought. We will continue to post responses as they come in (when we
update the website each month).
We urge you to read your candidates’ responses, and to consider their stands on
mental health issues when you make your decisions on November 7. If the
candidates for your District haven’t responded to the questionnaire, raise these
issues with them. The more that the candidates hear constituents supporting
these positions, the more likely they are to be responsive when elected.
Responses of candidates outside the metropolitan area served by the Greater
Washington Society can be found on the website of the Maryland Society:
http://www.mscsw.org.
| Frederick County | candidate | district | office sought |
| Galen Clagett | District 3 | delegate | |
| C. Sue Hecht | District 3 | delegate | |
| Richard Weldon | District 3 | delegate | |
| Joseph R Bartlett | District 4 | delegate | |
| Maggie Hays | District 4 | delegate | |
| Howard County | candidate | district | office sought |
| Shane Pendergrass | District 13 | delegate | |
| John R Austin | District 14 | delegate | |
| Karen Montgomery | District 14 | delegate | |
| Montgomery County | candidate | district | office sought |
| Bill Askinazi | District 15 | senate | |
| Rob Garagiola | District 15 | senate | |
| William A Bronrott | District 16 | delegate | |
| Mary Haley | District 17 | delegate | |
| Paul N Huarakis | District 17 | delegate | |
| Josephine Wang | District 17 | delegate | |
| Roger Manno | District 19 | delegate | |
| Prince George’s County | candidate | district | office sought |
| Anne Healey | District 22 | delegate |
*The MD-LCSWO (Maryland Legislative Council of Social Work Organizations) represents the interests of member societies (Greater Washington and Maryland), and of the more than 7000 licensed clinical social workers in Maryland. Working with lobbyist Alice Neily, the Council advocates in Annapolis for legislation and government policies promoting greater access to quality mental health care and services to meet the needs of Maryland citizens.