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SB 760

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Security Guard Agencies, Security Guard Employers, and Security Guards – Standards and Certifications

Sponsor: Senator CarterCommittee: Judicial ProceedingsSubject: Business Occupations and ProfessionsStatus: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 (as of Nov 9, 2023)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Requiring an individual who provides security guard services to the individual's employer to be certified as a security guard, subject to a certain exception; regulating certain security guard employers; altering the certification and renewal standards for security guards; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to identify or establish certain training programs for the certification and renewal of certification of security guards; requiring security guards to complete certain security training programs; etc.

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Testimony (11)

MGA witness list
FAV 9FavorableFWA 2Favorable with amendments
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVBeresford, LeonAdmiral Security ServicesOral
FAVWilliams, Dr. KeithAdmiral Security ServicesOral
FAVParos, NicholasAllied Universal SecurityOral
FAVWickham Hurley, ZenitaMaryland Office of the Attorney GeneralWritten (PDF)
FAVBritt, AdienaN/APosition only
FAVAmitay, SteveNASCOOral
FAVElaine, ArndtSELFPosition only
FAVCarter, JillIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FAVSenator Carter, Senator CarterlegislatorIndividualOral
FWAPica, JohnlobbyistPica & Associates, LLCOral + Written (PDF)
FWAAVNET, EVANIndividualOral

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FWAPica, JohnPica & Associates, LLCRegistered for: Allied Universal; Automated Health Systems; Benelli USA c/o Pica & Associates, LLC; Beretta USA; Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Inc.; Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Company