Sen. Ron Watson
Democratic Maryland Senate · District 23 · Maryland
-0.287Left–right score (within Senate)−1 = most liberal, +1 = most conservative in this chamber. Only compare with others in the same chamber.
#30 of 46Chamber rank, liberal→conservative#1 is the most liberal ranked member of this chamber.
98.3%Party unityHow often they vote the same way as most of their own party.
1005Roll calls (71 missed/absent)Recorded votes we have for this session; “missed” means they didn’t vote.
In office since 2021-08-31 · ron.watson@senate.maryland.gov · mgaleg.maryland.gov/…/watson03 · mgaleg.maryland.gov/…/watson04 · mgaleg.maryland.gov/…/frmMain.aspx?pid=sponpag · msa.maryland.gov/…/msa18025.html · Open States ID 177ee919-8310-4485-9b07-041cd83b2947
Capitol: Room 121, James Senate Office Building 11 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401 410-841-3631
Where they sit in the Maryland Senate
Each gray bar counts how many ranked members of the Maryland Senate have a score in that range, from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right). The colored line is Ron Watson. Scores are relative to this chamber only.
Chamber, by party
Each tick is one ranked member, placed by their score (blue D, red R, purple I/other). The tall tick is Ron Watson.
Committees
- Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology
- Committee on Ending Homelessness
- Education, Energy and the Environment
- Spending Affordability
Recent votes (latest 60 of 1005 in the current session data)
| Date | Bill / motion | Vote | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-26 | SB 666 On Third Reading Maryland Community Action Agencies - Funding | Yea | Pass 109–30 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 826 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs - Repeal of Interdepartmental Advisory Committee and Establishment of the Governor's Subcabinet on Socioeconomic Procurement Participation | Yea | Pass 132–7 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 500 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Procurement Reform Act of 2025 | Yea | Pass 118–19 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 865 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Catastrophic Event Account - Transfer of Funds - State Disaster Recovery Fund | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 1121 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Child Care Scholarship Program - Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program - Establishment | Yea | Pass 137–1 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 478 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Hagerstown Community College Police Force - Jurisdiction | Yea | Pass 138–0 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 579 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions and Immigration Enforcement at Sensitive Locations | Yea | Pass 124–14 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 1473 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) State Government - Equal Access to Public Services for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency and Individuals With Disabilities | Yea | Pass 104–35 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 517 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration | Yea | Pass 105–33 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 860 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure | Yea | Pass 137–0 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 1222 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement (Maryland Values Act) | Yea | Pass 101–38 |
| 2025-03-26 | SB 376 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-26 | HB 1475 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Maryland State Department of Education - Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Analysis and Report (Mixed Delivery Model Viability Act) | Yea | Pass 133–7 |
| 2025-03-26 | SB 773 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Health Benefit Plans - Calculation of Cost-Sharing Contribution - Requirements | Yea | Pass 137–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 46 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Real Property - Wrongful Detainer - Time of Hearing and Service of Process | Yea | Pass 138–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 400 On Third Reading (Amend) Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025) | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | HB 586 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation | Yea | Pass 110–29 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 358 On Third Reading Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission | Yea | Pass 139–1 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 250 On Third Reading Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation | Yea | Pass 96–44 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 89 On Third Reading Department of the Environment - Notation of Veteran Status | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 979 On Third Reading Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations | Yea | Pass 119–20 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 96 On Third Reading Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement | Yea | Pass 108–31 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 360 On Third Reading (Amend) Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 789 On Third Reading Higher Education - Hunger-Free Campus Grant Program - Alterations | Yea | Pass 106–33 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 338 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 | Yea | Pass 101–38 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 359 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Yea | Pass 136–2 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 842 On Third Reading (Amend) Electronic Smoking Devices - Seizure and Wholesaler Record-Keeping Requirements | Yea | Pass 105–33 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 373 On Third Reading State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes | Yea | Pass 106–34 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 608 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions | Yea | Pass 128–11 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 646 On Third Reading Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols | Yea | Pass 137–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 333 On Third Reading Criminal Procedure - Victims and Witnesses - Out of Court Statement of Child to Forensic Interviewer | Yea | Pass 133–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 696 On Third Reading Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 833 On Third Reading Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes | Yea | Pass 137–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 80 On Third Reading (Emerg) Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties | Yea | Pass 139–1 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 894 On Third Reading Office of Social Equity - Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund - Modifications | Yea | Pass 101–38 |
| 2025-03-25 | HB 782 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 655 On Third Reading (Amend) Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment | Yea | Pass 134–5 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 271 On Third Reading Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 968 On Third Reading Howard County - Patuxent River Wildland - Use of Mechanical or Motorized Equipment Ho. Co. 5-25 | Yea | Pass 138–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 645 On Third Reading Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date | Yea | Pass 130–3 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 930 On Third Reading Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment | Yea | Pass 104–34 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 869 SB 869 SB 910 Dorchester County - Alcoholic Beverages Licenses - Fees | Yea | Pass 138–2 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 168 On Third Reading Confined Aquatic Disposal Cells - Construction - Moratorium | Yea | Pass 139–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 154 On Third Reading Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund | Yea | Pass 99–40 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 425 On Third Reading Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations | Yea | Pass 98–33 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 758 On Third Reading Condominiums and Homeowners Associations - Elections, Financial Statements, and Enforcement | Yea | Pass 137–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 871 On Third Reading Department of the Environment - Community Water and Sewerage Systems - Cybersecurity Planning and Assessments | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 51 On Third Reading Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 597 On Third Reading Higher Education - Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program - Eligible Institutions | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 705 On Third Reading Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight | Yea | Pass 140–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 571 On Third Reading Anne Arundel County - Class A (Off-Sale) and Class D (Off-Sale) Licenses - Population Ratio Quota | Yea | Pass 139–1 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 599 On Third Reading Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding | Yea | Pass 122–16 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 880 On Third Reading Governor's Office for Children - Boys and Girls Clubs of Maryland - Grant Funding | Yea | Pass 119–19 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 980 On Third Reading Natural Resources - Maryland Heritage Areas Authority - Funding and Grants | Yea | Pass 137–1 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 979 FLA Del. Hutchinson /813124/1 Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations | Nay | Fail 37–100 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 93 On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application | Yea | Pass 104–36 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 858 On Third Reading State Public Transit Service and Stations - Exclusion for Assault and Bodily Injury | Yea | Pass 138–0 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 181 On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole | Yea | Pass 104–36 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 269 On Third Reading Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Revisions | Yea | Pass 138–1 |
| 2025-03-25 | SB 685 On Third Reading Election Law - Local Boards of Elections - Language Assistance Program | Yea | Pass 104–31 |