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When contacting your elected officials the following three links will assist you in finding out your legislative election district, who your elected officials are, and how to contact a legislator by e-mail, phone or postal mail.

Who are your elected officials in Maryland?

Contact a legislator (by e-mail)

Maryland Manual On-line

or you may click on this link to go to: www.bmbassoc.com .
click on "Contact Your Legislator" and
from there you can e-mail members of the committee directly
by simply clicking on their name or you may use the links provided above.

Please Note:

Members are urged to check these Legislative Alert pages frequently for updated information on issues affecting your dental hygiene scope of practice. For future reference and to assist you with future legislative issues, please note the four links above which provide a listing of all Maryland Legislators' names, address and e-mail contact information.

INFORMATION YOU NEED TO READ!

After a very long wait this document prepared by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration
entitled"The Professional Practice Environment Of Dental Hygienists In the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, 2001" has been released and is on line. This is a very long read but all the info we need to move ourselves forward as a profession is contained therein. This is MUST reading for all legislative chairs and those whose committment to the profession of Dental Hygiene is strong enough to want change. Please click here to link to the document.

Important reference materials are linked below.

Access to Care Position Paper, 2001

Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, May 2000