William H. Amoss (1936-1997)
MSA SC 3520-12140
Biography:
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 2, 1936. Attended Harford County parochial and public schools; Harford Community College; University of Maryland-Overseas; Missouri School of Auctioneering. Died at Fallston, Harford County, Maryland, October 8, 1997.
General Assembly:
Member of Maryland Senate, (D) 35, Harford and Cecil Counties, 1983-97.
Senate Chair, Special Joint Committee on Pensions, 1985-97. Senate
Co-Chair, Joint Transportation Financing Committee (Transportation 2000),
1994. Senate Chair, Joint Budget and Audit Committee, 1995-96.
Senate Chair, Joint Legislative Task Force on Organ and Tissue Donations,
1997. Vice-Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee, 1995-97 (public
safety, transportation, economic development, & natural resources subcommittee;
revenues & taxes subcommittee; chair, capital budget subcommittee;
chair, pensions subcommittee). Member, Finance Committee, 1983-86;
Joint Audit Committee (formerly Joint Budget and Audit Committee), 1983-97;
Joint Committee on Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas, 1987-94; Budget and Taxation
Committee, 1987-97; Spending Affordability Committee, 1991-97; Joint Committee
on State Economic Development Initiatives, 1995-96; Legislative Policy
Committee, 1995-97; Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative
Review, 1995-97; Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and Agricultural
Land Preservation, 1995-97. Chair, Harford County Delegation, 1991-97.
Member, House of Delegates, 1975-82. Member, Appropriations Committee;
Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Army, 1955-58. Auctioneer and appraiser.
Member, Governor's Task Force on State Support for Volunteer Fire, Rescue
and Ambulance Companies, 1983-85; State Use Industries Advisory Committee,
1983-97; Maryland Historical Trust, 1991-97; Aquaculture Advisory Committee,
1993-97; Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness,
1994-97; Bainbridge Re-Use Advisory Committee, 1996-97. Member, Maryland
Farm Bureau; Maryland and National Auctioneers Associations. Director,
Bel Air Jaycees.
In 1998, the Maryland General Assembly enacted the William H. Amoss
Organ and Tissue Donation Act (Chapter 1, Acts of 1998). Named in
honor of Senator
Amoss, the William H. Amoss Performing Arts Center opened in May 2000
at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland.
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