Ronald A. Guns, MSA SC 3520-12234

Archives of Maryland
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Ronald A. Guns
MSA SC 3520-12234

Biography:

Born in Elkton, Maryland, October 9, 1948. Attended Corpus Christi High School, Elsmere, Delaware; Cecil Community College; University of Maryland. Married; five children.

General Assembly:
House of Delegates, Legislative District 36 (D), Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's Talbot Counties, 1983-2001. Chair, Eastern Shore delegation, 1989-90. Member, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, 1989-90. House chair, Joint Committee on Health Care Cost Containment, 1991-92. Chair, Environmental Matters Committee, 1991-2001; member, 1983-2001, vice-chair, 1989-90, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Subcommittee, 1999-2001; Health Subcommittee, 1999-2001; Public Utilities Subcommittee, 1999-2001. Member, Rules and Executive Nominations Committee, 1991-2001; Legislative Policy Committee, 1991-2001; Joint Task Force on Maryland's Procurement Law, 1994. House chair, Special Joint Committee on the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program, 1995-2001. Co-chair, Article 66B, (Planning and Zoning) Study Commission, 1999-2000. Member, Joint Subcommittee on Program Open Space and Agricultural Land Preservation, 2000.

Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Army, 1969-71, with a tour in Vietnam, 1969-70; two Army Commendation Medals. Employed by Bell Atlantic-Maryland. Member, Governor's Advisory Council on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 1987-91; Subcommittee on Uninsured Persons of Governor's Commission on Health Care Policy and Financing, 1988-90; Governor's Commission on Growth in the Chesapeake Region, 1989-91; Chesapeake Bay Commission, 1989-91; Susquehanna River Watershed Advisory Board, 1990; State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Commission, 1992-; Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1995-; Blue Ribbon Citizens Pfiesteria Commission, 1997. Co-chair, Task Force to Study Retail Electric Competition and the Restructuring of the Electric Utility Industry, 1997-98. Member, Governor's Task Force on Eastern Shore Economic Development, 1999-. Member, Knights of Columbus; Elks; VFW; American Legion. Secretary, Cecil County Junior Football League.

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