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Delores G. Kelley is a Democratic member of the Maryland State Senate, representing District 10. She was first elected to the chamber in 1994. Kelley is running for re-election in the primary on June 26, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018.
Kelley served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1991 to 1995.
Kelley earned her B.A. in philosophy from Virginia State College in 1956, her M.A. in education from New York University in 1958, her M.A. in speech communication from Purdue University in 1972, and her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Maryland College Park in 1977. Her professional experience includes working as a professor and dean at Coppin State College.
Former Vice Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Vice-Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Vice-Chair, Executive Nominations Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Health Subcommittee of the Finance Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Ending Homelessness, Maryland State Senate
Former Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Fair Practices, Maryland State Senate
Former Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Federal Relations, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Joint Committee on Protocol, Maryland State Senate
Member, Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight, Maryland General Assembly
Former Vice Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Judicial Proceedings Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Legislative Policy Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Chair, Property and Casualty Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Senate Finance Committee, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Task Force to Study Economic Development and Apprenticeships, Maryland State Senate
Former Member, Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Maryland State Senate
Member, Task Force to Study Access to Pharmacy Services in Maryland, 2014-2015
Senate Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Health Care Delivery and Financing, Maryland General Assembly, 2011-2014
Member, Maryland Council for Educator Effectiveness, 2010-2013
Member, Maryland Foreclosure Task Force, 2011-2012
Member, Task Force on the Membership and Operation of the Baltimore County Board of Education, 2011
Member, Alzheimer's Work Group, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2010
Co-Chair, Commission to Study the Title Insurance Industry in Maryland, 2008-2010
Member, Task Force to Study the Developmental Disabilities Administration Rate-Payment System, 2007-2008
Member, Workgroup on Cultural Competency and Workforce Development for Mental Health Professionals, 2007-2008
Member, Aging Workgroup, Governor-Elect's Transition Team, 2006-2007
Vice Chair, Financial Services Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2005-2007
Co-Chair, Task Force to Study Identity Theft, 2007
Member, Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight, 2005-2006
Member, Family Violence Council, 1995-2006
Co-Chair, Legislative Action Team, Family Violence Council, 1996-2006
Member, Senate Special Commission on Electric Utility Deregulation Implementation, 2005-2006
Member, Task Force on Common Ownership Communities, 2005-2006
Member, Governor's Council on Adolescent Pregnancy, 1998-2005
Member, Health Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures, 2000-2005
Member, Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, 2003-2005
Member, State Commission on Infant Mortality Prevention, 1999-2005
Member, Senate Special Commission on Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance, 2004
Member, Task Force on Access to Mental Health Services, 2003-2004
Member, Unemployment Insurance Funding Task Force, 2003-2004
Member, Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students, 2000-2001
Member, Task Force to Study Repealing the Disenfranchisement of Convicted Felons in Maryland, 2001
Member, Task Force to Study the Licensing and Monitoring of Community-Based Homes for Children, 2000-2001
Member, Adoption Oversight Team, Department of Human Resources, 1997-2000
Chair, Home Builders Registration Work Group, 1999
Member, Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, 1996-1999
Member, Task Force to Study Anti-Asian Violence, 1997-1999
Member, Article 27 (Crimes and Punishments) Revision Committee, 1997-1998
Member, Governor's Commission on Adoption, 1995
Member, Governor's Task Force on Judicial Nominating Commissions, 1995
Member, State Commission on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders, 1991-1995
Maryland Delegate, White House Conference on Aging, 1995
Member, Environmental Matters Committee, Maryland State House of Delegates, 1991-1994
Member, Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review, Maryland State House of Delegates, 1993-1994
Member, Mayor's Mental Health Advisory Council, Baltimore City, 1980-1988
Member, Values Education Commission, 1981-1985
Member, Executive Nominations
Chair, Finance
Member, Legislative Policy
Member, Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission
Member, Rules
Chair, Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and to organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Slightly Increase
4. Environment
- Slightly Increase
5. Health care
- Slightly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Slightly Increase
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Decrease
8. Welfare
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
2. Capital gains taxes
- Maintain Status
3. Cigarette taxes
- Greatly Increase
4. Corporate taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Maintain Status
7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Maintain Status
8. Property taxes
- Slightly Decrease
9. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
11. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
12. Should the state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
13. Should accounts such as a ?rainy day? fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
14. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Maryland governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Maryland state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- Yes
2. PAC
- No
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- Undecided
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- No
7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
8. Do you support prohibiting media exit polling of voters until all polling locations in Maryland are closed?
- Undecided
9. Should Maryland recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
10. Do you support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage?
- No
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer
2. Support the death penalty in Maryland.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- X
5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
9. Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- No Answer
10. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
11. Strengthen sex-offender laws.
- X
12. Support the restriction of the sale of products used to make methamphetamine (e.g. tablets containing pseudophedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine).
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
5. Increase funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- X
7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Supprt requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X
11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
14. Support the state taking over control of under-performing Baltimore public schools.
- No Answer
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that retrain displaced workers and teach skills needed in today?s job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
6. Support the inclusion of sexual orientation in Maryland's anti-discrimination laws.
- X
7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Public employment
- Yes
2. State college and university admissions
- Yes
3. State contracting
- Yes
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer
3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X
4. Increase funding for improvements to Maryland's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
5. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
6. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- X
7. How would you propose to alleviate the rising cost of energy in Maryland? Please use forty (40) word or less.
- Promote alternative energy sources, conservation, & more flexible scheduling of utilities' participation in energy auctions.
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
5. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
6. Require a license for gun possession.
- X
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer current Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Maryland.
- No Answer
7. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Allow pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
- X
9. Support providing state grants for embryonic stem cell research.
- X
10. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
4. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
5. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X
6. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer
7. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- Elimination of intra or sub-district disparities in quality of public school teachers; universal access to affordable health care; enhanced consumer protection.
Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
Type: bill Chamber: upper
