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Kathleen M. Dumais (b. July 5, 1958) is a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 15 and serving as Parliamentarian. She was first elected to the chamber in 2002. Dumais is running for re-election in the primary on June 26, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018.
Dumais's professional experience includes working as an Attorney/Principal with Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenberg & Cooper, Attorney for Quinn, McAuliffe and Dumais, was Assistant to Dean of the University of Maryland University College, and a teacher/administrative assistant in Montgomery County Public Schools.
Member, Commission on Child Custody Decision Making, 2013-present
Member, Special Joint Commission on Public Safety and Security in State and Local Correctional Facilities, 2013-present
Member, Maryland Access to Justice Commission, 2008-present
Legislative Representative, Montgomery County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, 2004-present
Member, Maryland Green Caucus, 2003-present
Member, Women Legislators of Maryland, 2003-present
Member, Foster Care Court-Improvement Implementation Committee, 2007-present
Former Member, Joint Committee on Children, Youth, Families, Maryland State House of Delegates
Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, Maryland State House of Delegates
Member, Maryland Medical Marijuana Model Program Work Group, 2011-present
Member, Maryland Veterans Caucus, 2005-present
Member, Redistricting and Elections Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2005-present
Member, Task Force to Study Implementing a Civil Right to Counsel in Maryland
Chair, Bi-County Agency Committee, Montgomery County Delegation, 2008-2010
Member, Family Law Subcommittee, Maryland State House of Delegates, 2003-2010
Chair, Family Law Subcommittee, Maryland State House of Delegates, 2007-2010
Member, Maryland Alcohol Safety Action Program Committee, 2010
Member, Task Force to Combat Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol, 2007-2008
Chair, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Matters Committee, Montgomery County Delegation, 2007-2008
Member, Bi-County Committee, Montgomery County Delegation, 2003-2007
Chair, Montgomery County Delegation, 2007
Member, Estates and Trusts Subcommittee, Maryland State House of Delegates, 2003-2006
Member, Legislative Committee, Women Legislators of Maryland, 2006
Member, Juvenile Services Workgroup, Maryland State House of Delegates, 2005
Member, Children, Youth, and Families
Member, Economic Matters
Member, Legislative Ethics
Member, Legislative Policy
Co-Chair, Marijuana Legalization Workgroup
Member, Rules and Executive Nominations
Member, Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Member, Spending Affordability
Chair, Subcommittee on Property and Casualty Insurance
Member, Subcommittee on Workers Compensation
— Awards:
Maryland's Top 100 Women, Daily Record, 2005, 2007, 2009
Legislative Policy Award, Maryland Chapter, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2009
Legislative Policy Award, Maryland Legislative Agenda for Women, 2008
Maryland Leadership in Law Award, Daily Record, 2010
Award of Special Recognition, Maryland Legal Services Corporation, 2010
Champion for Children, Department of Human Resources and Maryland State Bar Association, 2010
Rita C. Davidson Award, Women's Bar Association of Maryland, 2010
Dorothy Beatty Memorial Award, The Women's Law Center of Maryland, 2010
Legislator of the Year Award, Maryland Access to Justice Commission, 2011
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
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2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
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4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
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6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase
4. Environment
- Slightly Increase
5. Health care
- Greatly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Slightly Increase
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Slightly Increase
8. Property taxes
- Maintain Status
9. Sales taxes
- Slightly Increase
10. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Other or expanded categories
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12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Undecided
13. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- No
14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- No
15. Other or expanded principles
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1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Maryland governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Maryland state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Yes
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes
7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Maryland are closed?
- Undecided
9. Should Maryland recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
10. Do you support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?
- No
11. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Maryland.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
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8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
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9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- X
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
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2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
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3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
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4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
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8. Supprt requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
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9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
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14. Support the state taking over control of under-performing Baltimore public schools.
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15. Other or expanded principles
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1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
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3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
6. Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Maryland's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Public employment
- Yes
2. State college and university admissions
- Yes
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
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1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to Maryland's power generating and transmission facilities.
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5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
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7. How would you propose to alleviate the rising cost of energy in Maryland? Please use forty (40) word or less.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
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4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
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5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
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1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
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3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
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5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
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6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Maryland.
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7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
- X
9. Support providing state grants for embryonic stem cell research.
- X
10. Other or expanded principles
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1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
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2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
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5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- X
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
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8. Other or expanded principles
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Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
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