Leonard H. Teitelbaum
MSA SC 3520-12177
Biography:
Born in Brooklyn, New York, February 27, 1931. Attended Lafayette High School, Brooklyn; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, bachelor's degree, management engineering, 1953. Married; one child.
General Assembly:
Maryland State Senate, Legislative District 19 (D), Montgomery County,
1995-2007. Senate Chair, Joint Advisory Committee on Legislative Data
Systems, 1997-2007. Senate Chair, Joint Technology Oversight Committee,
2000-07. Member, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee, 1995-96
(environment subcommittee, 1995-96; health subcommittee, 1995-96);
Joint Committee on Health Care Delivery and Financing, 1995-2007;
Finance Committee, 1997-2007 (telephone solicitation work group, 1999;
division of labor & industry sunset evaluation work group, 2003;
chair, health subcommittee, 2003-07); Executive Nominations Committee,
1999-2007; Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families, 1999-2007;
Joint Legislative Task Force on Universal Access to Quality and
Affordable Health Care, 2005-06; Joint Committee on Access to Mental
Health Services, 2005-07. Member, Maryland Veterans Caucus, 2004-07.
Member, National Conference of State Legislatures (communications,
technology & interstate commerce committee; legislative
effectiveness & state government committee).
House of Delegates, Legislative District 19 (D), Montgomery County,
1987-94. Member, Environmental Matters Committee, 1987-94
(continuing-care workgroup; chair, nurses registry workgroup); Joint
Committee on Health Care Cost Containment, 1989-92; Joint Committee on
Health Care Delivery and Financing, 1993-95. Member, Montgomery County
Delegation (chair, 1990-93, vice-chair, 1989, bi-county agencies
committee; chair, joint committee on washington suburban sanitary
commission finances).
Member, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, 1981-87 (chair,
1983-84; vice-chair, 1982-83, 1986-87). Member, Task Force to Study the
Crisis in Nursing, 1987-88; Governor's Task Force to Review and
Evaluate the Delivery System of Services to the Elderly, 1990-91; Task
Force to Study Health Professional-Client Sexual Exploitation, 1993-95;
Governor's Task Force on Procurement, 1995-96; Task Force to Examine
the Applicability of Manufacturing Laws to High-Technology Businesses,
1997; Task Force on Privatization of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, 1998-99; Task Force to Conquer Cancer in Maryland, 1999;
Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Facilities, 1999; Business and
Technology Division Task Force, 2000; State Information Technology
Board, 2000-04; Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing
Homes, 2000-05; Task Force on Indoor Air Quality, 2001-02; State
Commission on Public Safety Technology and Critical Infrastructure,
2002-05; Task Force to Study Moving Overhead Utility Lines Underground,
2003; Task Force on Access to Mental Health Services, 2003-04; Task
Force to Study Criminal Offender Monitoring by Global Positioning
Systems, 2004-05; CommunityChoice Advisory Group, 2004-07;
Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Airport Governance Study
Group, 2005; Task Force to Implement Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights
and Tolerance Education, 2005-07. Member, Energy and Environment
Committee of Southern Legislative Council, Council of State
Governments.
Private Career and Other Public Service:
Served in U.S. Army Signal Corps, PFC, White House, 1953-55. Engineer.
Member, Democratic Central Committee, Montgomery County, 1978-81. Board
of Directors, American Cancer Society, Montgomery County Unit;
Montgomery Hospice; Friends of Aspen Hill Library; Temple Israel,
Silver Spring; B'nai B'rith. Past member, Board of Directors, Homecrest
House. Honorary member, Board of Directors, Great Oaks Center.
Outstanding Service Award, Jewish Community Council of Greater
Washington, 1985. Legislator of the Year Award, Maryland Dental
Association, 1991. Legislator Recognition Award, Maryland Association
of Counties, 2003.
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