[MABM] 2023 NFBMD Legislative Priorities - Fact Sheets for Virtual Week in Annapolis

[Maryland President]

Fellow Federationists,

Attached and on our website you will find our 2023 NFB of Maryland
Legislative Priorities.  These are the three issues we will focus on during
our Virtual Week in Annapolis January 19 - 26, 2023.  We are constantly
advocating for improvements in the law so blind Marylanders can live the
lives they want, and just as importantly we are advocating to prevent bad
laws from being adopted.  Though we anticipating working on a dozen or more
issues this legislative session, the three attached issues are those that we
are prioritizing for collective action during our Virtual Week in Annapolis
and the rest of the 2023 session of the Maryland General Assembly.

 

The issues are:

1.	Feasibility of Electronic Ballot Return for Voting
2.	Expanding Housing Protections to Include Retired Guide Dogs
3.	Preserving the Budget Funding for the Center for Excellence in
Nonvisual Access

 

You can find the fact sheets attached and also on our website at: 

https://nfbmd.org/AnnapolisWeek2023

 

 

They will also be available on Newsline in the next few days.

 

If you have questions, feel free to reach out.

 

Yours,

Ronza

Ronza Othman, President

National Federation of the Blind of Maryland

443-426-4110

Pronouns: she, her, hers

 

The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not
the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.

 

 

 

 

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