ADVOCACY
Use your voice for a stronger state
Use your voice for a stronger state
The Maryland Chamber of Commerce represents the unified voice of the Maryland business community. It is the advocacy arm for businesses in the development and promotion of strong public policy that ensures future economic growth for Maryland businesses, employees and families.
You deserve a voice in the future of Maryland’s economy. As an advocate with the Chamber, you join a collective of thought leaders and a full-time, dedicated government affairs team with strong relationships in Annapolis. You take an active role in the policies that affect your business—with a partner that protects your interests.
We partner with other organizations, businesses and policymakers to accomplish our shared mission, finding amicable solutions across party lines.
Become an advocate and contribute to real change.
Members gain access to toolkits like our 2020 Advocacy Handbook, which shares crucial contacts, tips for addressing public officials, bills of interest, information about the legislative process, and more.
During the 2020 legislative session, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce established a coalition focused on data centers, a group of 60 business organizations and other interested stakeholders united in support of Senate Bill 397: bipartisan legislation that would provide a sales-and-use tax exemption for the sale of equipment used at a qualified data center.
Learn more about this victory for the state of Maryland by downloading the PDF below.
2020 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
2020 ADVOCACY PLAYBOOKAt the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, we believe that all business leaders deserve to have a voice in the future of Maryland’s economy. This is why we created the Maryland Advocacy Playbook — to teach people about advocacy and how you can make a difference in Annapolis. This guide provides you with the necessary tools and resources to ensure that your voice is heard.
This guide includes:
The 2020 legislative session presents an opportunity to educate lawmakers about the positive steps being taken by employers to advance economic growth and make Maryland a better place to live and work. It also presents a continued opportunity to protect the interests of Maryland’s job creators. We intend to carefully monitor the anticipated critical issues throughout the 2020 session. Together, we will continue to make an impact in Annapolis and Washington, D.C. and build a stronger future for Maryland.
2019 LEGISLATIVE REPORT
We support a reduced cost of doing business, continued work with the Augustine Commission, and advancing tax policy reforms that may include:
We will continue to work with our broad-based coalition of businesses, trade groups and associations to advance solutions to statewide transportation needs through:
We support fewer incentives for litigation that disproportionately awards plaintiffs, via policies that:
We support market-driven solutions to reduce energy costs that will:
We promote fairness and protect employer interests, and will:
We support meaningful health care reform that lowers the overall cost of health care, via policies that:
See how the Maryland Chamber supports the biopharma and life sciences industry.
We support an education system which produces a well-educated, well-trained Maryland workforce for tomorrow’s business needs through policies that:
We support growing and retaining biotechnology, cybersecurity, and other high-tech business innovators, via policies that:
We support a streamlined and competitive approach to business regulation and oversight that:
