Members - Delegate Lauren Arikan

Delegate Lauren Arikan

District

County

Harford

Committee Assignment(s)

Judiciary Committee

Annapolis Info

414 Lowe House Office Building
6 Bladen Street
Annapolis, MD 21401

Phone: 410-841-3334
Toll-free in MD 1-800-492-7122 ext. 3334
Fax 410-841-3336

Interim Info

414 Lowe House Office Building
6 Bladen Street
Annapolis, MD 21401

Phone 410-841-3334
Fax 410-841-3336

Contact

lauren.arikan@house.state.md.us
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Party

Republican

Legislation	Sponsorship Type Sort	Chamber Sort
Bill/Chapter (Cross/Chapter) HB0137 Title Public Schools - Children Charged With a Crime of Violence - Prohibition on In-Person Attendance (School Safety Act of 2025) Sponsorship Type Co-Sponsor	2	2
Bill/Chapter (Cross/Chapter) HB0156 Title Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act) Sponsorship Type Co-Sponsor	2	2
Bill/Chapter (Cross/Chapter) HB0229 (SB0032) Title Real Property - Holding Over - Expedited Hearing and Service of Summons for Active Duty Service Members Sponsorship Type Co-Sponsor	2	2

Bill/Chapter (Cross/Chapter)	Title	Sponsorship Type	Sponsorship Type Sort	Chamber Sort	Current Status	Org Committees & Hearings
HB0137	Public Schools - Children Charged With a Crime of Violence - Prohibition on In-Person Attendance (School Safety Act of 2025)	Co-Sponsor	2	2	In the House - First Reading Ways and Means	Ways and Means
HB0156	Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act)	Co-Sponsor	2	2	In the House - First Reading Ways and Means	Ways and Means
HB0229 (SB0032)	Real Property - Holding Over - Expedited Hearing and Service of Summons for Active Duty Service Members	Co-Sponsor	2	2	In the House - First Reading Judiciary	Judiciary

Denotes enacted legislation

Legislative Bond Initiatives

Project Name	Status	House Sponsors	Senate Sponsors	County	Amount Requested	Senate Initiative	House Initiative	Other Funding	Total Funding

Tenure: First elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018. Member of the House since January 9, 2019, representing District 7, Baltimore and Harford Counties. Representing District 7B, Harford County, since January 11, 2023.

Current Assignments

2019 Judiciary Committee

2023 Civil Law and Procedure Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee

2019 Criminal Law and Procedure Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee

2024 Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus, Associate Member

Past House Service: Deputy Minority Whip, 2019-2021; Juvenile Law Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, 2019-2021; Public Safety Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, 2021-2022; Workgroup to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors, 2019-2020; Women Legislators of Maryland (Secretary, 2019-2020; 1st Vice-President, 2020-2021, Vice President 2021-2022), 2019-2022.

Public Service: Work Group to Study Shelter and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Minors, 2019-2020; Chair, Love Maryland PAC, 2015-2018; Vice President, Victoria Russell Foundation, 2017-present; Board Member, Maryland Friends of Midwives, 2012-2014.

Memberships: Harford County Republic Women's Club; Maryland Federation of Republican Women.

Biographical Information: University of Baltimore, English Language and Literature, 2007-2009; Arikan Acres (poultry and goat farm), 2014-present; Business Owner: Arikan Investments, 2016-present; Director, Public Relations, Arikan Accounting and Tax, 2009-present; Attends Kingdom Minded Church, Darlington, MD; Four children.