Jesse Pippy

Committee assignments

• Member, Economic Matters Committee, 2021–present (banking, consumer protection & commercial law subcommittee, 2021–present; property & casualty insurance subcommittee, 2021–present; public utilities subcommittee, 2021–present)
• Member, Judiciary Committee, 2019–2020 (juvenile law subcommittee, 2019–2020; public safety subcommittee, 2019–2020)

Other memberships

• Chair, Frederick County Delegation, 2020–2021
• Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus, 2019
• Maryland Veterans Caucus, 2019–present
• Secretary, Maryland Legislative Latino Caucus, 2019–present
• Chair, Minority Caucus Steering Committee, 2020–present
• Member, Emerging Leaders Program, State Legislative Leaders Foundation, 2020–present

Abortion

In March 2022, during a debate on legislation that would expand abortion access, Pippy introduced an amendment that would allow only physicians to provide abortion services. The House of Delegates voted to reject the amendment on a vote of 40–84.^[16]

Business

In March 2021, Pippy voted against legislation that would require businesses to create telework policies.^[17] In February 2026, he introduced a bill that would temporarily impose a moratorium on new data centers in Frederick County until the state completed an impact study on the data center industry.^[18]

COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2021, Pippy opposed a proposal by Governor Larry Hogan that would give state employees a $1,000 bonus for working during the coronavirus pandemic, saying that he felt the government needed to do more to help private sector employees.^[19] In June 2021, he supported Hogan's decision to end expanded unemployment benefits provided by the American Rescue Plan Act.^[20] In August 2021, Pippy opposed extending Maryland's state of emergency status for the delta variant.^[21]

Crime and policing

During the 2019 legislative session, Pippy introduced a bill that would recognize human trafficking as a "crime of violence" in Maryland.^[22] The bill passed and became law on April 18, 2019.^[23] He also introduced legislation that would expand the state's child pornography laws to include lascivious acts and computer-generated images, which passed and became law on April 30, 2019.^[24][25]

During the 2020 legislative session, Pippy introduced a bill that would replace the term "gang" with "criminal organization" in the state's criminal law code.^[26] The bill passed and became law on May 8, 2020.^[27] He also introduced legislation that would make strangulation a first-degree felony assault, which passed and became law on May 8, 2020.^[28][29][30]

During the 2021 legislative session, Pippy introduced a bill that would allow individuals to apply for a court order to obtain information from an electronic device of interest through fax or email.^[31] The bill passed and became law on May 30, 2021.^[32]

In February 2021, Pippy said that he opposed removing school resource officers from schools.^[33]

Energy

During the 2026 legislative session, Pippy opposed a bill that would prohibit investor-owned utilities from paying employee bonuses and supervisor compensation with ratepayer dollars, saying it would demonize utility executives instead of doing anything to reduce rates.^[34] In March 2026, he was one of 10 Republicans to vote for the Utility RELIEF Act, a legislative package aimed at lowering electricity costs through a series of reforms to EmPOWER Maryland, delays to clean energy goals, and limits on what costs utility companies could pass onto consumers.^[35]

Healthcare

During the 2020 legislative session, Pippy introduced a bill that would fine healthcare facilities that engage in patient brokering.^[36]

Immigration

Pippy opposes any bills that would change how Maryland counties participate in the 287(g) program, saying that he believes any state-level restrictions on the program could be challenged in court since the 287(g) program is a federal program.^[37] In March 2021, during a debate on legislation that would require counties to end their 287(g) program contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he unsuccessfully attempted to amend the bill to create exemptions for Frederick County.^[38] During debate on a bill to ban 287(g) agreements in February 2026, Pippy introduced an amendment hat would still allow counties to enter into agreements with ICE to "enforce civil immigration law when an individual is charged with a violet crime", which was rejected.^[39] Pippy also opposed bills that would set mandatory minimum safety standards for private immigration detention facilities and prevent such facilities in areas not zoned for the use.^[40]

National politics

In February 2025, Pippy expressed sympathy toward federal employees affected by the Trump administration's federal mass layoffs, but defended the firings as a necessity to address the United States's national debt and bring down federal spending, which he felt had increased "almost to an unsustainable amount".^[41] In September 2025, he defended the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, saying that some of the bill's cuts have resonated well with voters, and predicted that Democratic efforts to campaign against the bill in the 2026 midterm elections would be unsuccessful.^[42]

In October 2025, Pippy supported Senate President Bill Ferguson's decision to reject mid-decade redistricting in Maryland in response to Republican efforts to gerrymander congressional maps in various red states, saying that Democratic leaders in the Maryland General Assembly gerrymandering Maryland's 1st congressional district to oust Andy Harris, the only Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation, would be "the height of hypocrisy, especially when roughly 40% of Marylanders vote Republican".^[43] After Governor Wes Moore organized a commission to review mid-decade redistricting in Maryland in November 2025, Pippy said he would introduce a bill to ban mid-decade redistricting, codify part of a 2022 ruling that struck down Maryland's original congressional redistricting plan as an "extreme partisan gerrymander", and require Maryland's congressional districts to be drawn by an independent redistricting commission.^[44] He opposed the map advanced by the Governor's Redistricting Advisory Commission, which would redraw Maryland's 1st congressional district to improve the Democratic Party's chances of winning it, and criticized comparisons to the mid-decade redistricting map passed in Texas in 2025.^[45]

During the 2026 legislative session, Pippy introduced a resolution to honor Charlie Kirk and condemn his assassination.^[46]