In addition to the gun bill, SB1, Sample-Hughes also referred to voting against a bill that allows for the use state funds for transgender treatment and a virtual learning education bill as legislation where she differed with Jones.
“There’s probably three or four bills out of 810 bills that we passed that, for me, as a representative of the Eastern Shore, I knew it didn’t match up with the people I represent,” she said. Jones did not bring up the gun bill specifically in the Tuesday meeting also attended by Jones' chief of staff, according to Sample-Hughes, but the former Wicomico County Council member said it was one of several pieces of legislation where she differed from Jones.
In a late April letter to the governor, the state’s Attorney General Anthony Brown said, “Senate Bill 1 is legally sufficient and is not clearly unconstitutional.” “Are we setting ourselves up for unnecessary challenges in this space as it relates to people that are legally carrying guns?” she said. In a State House interview with a Daily Times reporter, minutes after voting against the bill on April 10, Sample-Hughes questioned the legislation. Sample-Hughes was one of a few Democrats who voted against the legislation in April. That law has already been the subject of litigation. Wes Moore sat next to Jones in the State House on Tuesday, and signed gun safety legislation, SB1, into law. The meeting with Sample-Hughes happened hours before Gov. Wes Moore's 1st session Gun legislation one of a few differences in voting More: Gun laws, wind energy hot topics as General Assembly wraps up Gov. I’m certainly going to continue to do my best and represent until the next election in January.” “I don’t know if I’ll be welcome to meetings or anything. “It requires us reconvening, and that didn’t happen on Tuesday,” said Sample-Hughes, in a phone interview on Thursday.
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