Melissa Wells

Sponsored bills

• HB849: Child Care Scholarship Program - Freeze in Enrollment - Exceptions and Waitlist
• HB776: Juvenile Law - Child in Need of Supervision - Mandatory Petition (NyKayla Strawder Memorial Act)
• HB738: Real Property - Transfer-on-Death Deed - Establishment
• HB552: Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children - Establishment
• HB439: Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Maryland Advisory Council on Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Renaming
• HB1276: West North Avenue Development Authority - Neighborhood Social Connection and Development Program - Establishment (WNADA Neighborhood Social Connection and Development Act)
• HB864: Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) (primary sponsor)
• HB115: Election Law - Individuals Released From State Correctional Facilities - Automatic Restoration of Voter Registration
• HB108: Division of Correction - Volunteer Services Program
• HB1017: Correctional Services - Private Detention Facilities - Zoning Requirement (primary sponsor)
• HB1069: Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements
• HB706: State Finance - Delinquent Federal Funds (Federal Obligations Enforcement Act)
• HB1352: State Procurement - Worker Residency Requirements
• HB22: Correctional Services - Incarcerated Individuals - Identification Cards, Driver's Licenses, and Birth Certificates
• HB1480: Labor Law - Child Labor Penalties, Private Sector Employee Labor Relations, and State Employee Labor Standards
• HB1070: Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Workforce Opportunities Grant Program and Fund
• HB166: State Government - Henrietta Lacks Commission - Establishment (Henrietta Lacks Commission of Maryland Act of 2026)
• HB194: Incarcerated Individual Apprenticeship Pilot Program
• HB1108: Labor and Employment - Greenhouse Workers - Collective Bargaining and Heat Protection
• HB410: Public Health - Food Labeling - Requirements