 In the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly, introduced measures to increase drug treatment funding while requiring the state's courts to refer first time misdemeanor drug users to treatment.The initiative mirrors those adopted on the west coast under California Proposition 36.Anderson's other bill in the drug area represents a major change in Maryland drug policy, HB992, would have repealed the state's without parole provisions from the sentences of second time non-violent drug felons.