Scott Martin is an American politician from

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currently serving as a

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member of the

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for the 13th district since January 3, 2017. He previously served as a two-term Lancaster County Commissioner and chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican County Commissioners Caucus. Scott Martin is married to Amber Martin and they have four children. After a six month exploratory committee, on December 11, 2021, Martin announced his intention to seek the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. Martin suspended his gubernatorial bid on February 11, 2022 due to complications from a broken leg and other injuries suffered in an accident, resulting in surgery.

Early life and education

Martin was born in

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and graduated from

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and

Millersville University Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the fourteen schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher E ...

with a degree in Sociology/Criminal Justice. He played professional football in the

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Political positions

Pediatric cancer

Martin authored legislation which was later signed into law as Act 73 of 2017, which allows Pennsylvanians to voluntarily donate $5 to the Pediatric Cancer Research Fund when electronically renewing a driver's license, photo identification card or vehicle registration. Martin has pushed for legislation that would allow Pennsylvania businesses to apply for tax credits if they make a donation to certain Pennsylvania medical centers for the purposes of pediatric cancer research/treatment. The total amount of tax credits cannot exceed $10 million in any one fiscal year and the program would last ten years.

Marijuana

Martin is against the legalization of

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in Pennsylvania.

Charter schools

As Education Committee chair, Martin introduced legislation opposed by school boards and teachers’ unions that seeks to make it easier to open charter schools and accelerate state taxpayer subsidies for private and parochial schools by hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years. Also the bill says Charter schools would no longer be able to advertise themselves as “cost-free” or “free,” as they often do in marketing themselves now. Additionally, it would add transparency and accountability measures for charters to follow, as well as allow all secondary schools to offer dual-enrollment programs with colleges.

Committee assignments

* Education, Chair * Appropriations * Environmental Resources & Energy * Judiciary

Electoral history

References

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