AIDS Legislative Committee Records

The AIDS Legislative Committee (ALC) formed in 1989 was a state non-profit grass-roots advocacy and lobbying organization in Maryland. The ALC educated and advocated for state legislation that supported the needs of citizens with HIV/AIDS. The organization was composed of a steering committee including volunteers, and also hired a lobbyist and a community coordinator.

The ALC provided testimony in support and opposition of bills in the Maryland legislature, provided information on legislation, and lobbied law-makers and relevant organizations on issues related to HIV/AIDS. The ALC was active in the late 1980s until the early 2000s.

Deborah Weimer, was an active ALC member who provided legislative testimony between 1988 and 2004 regarding numerous bills related to healthcare, HIV and AIDS, and standby guardianship in the Maryland legislature. Weimer received her J.D. Degree in 1978 from the New York University School of Law. She was a Law Professor at University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland between 1988-2019 where she taught courses on healthcare law and other topics, and taught in the HIV Law Clinic.

Liza Solomon, was a founding member of AIDS Legislative Committee in Maryland, a former ALC President in 1990-1995 and again circa 2004-2007, and an AIDS/HIV legislative advocate. Solomon received her doctorate of public health (Dr. P.H.) from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1988, and was the Director of the AIDS Administration, State of Maryland, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in 1995-2004.

[Some of this information was taken in part from the ALC 1994 Annual Report, which can be found in the collection.]