Mauree A. Gingrich (born July 10, 1946) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 101st District.
[2][3] The Lititz Record described her as a champion of "legislation to protect children, the elderly, the physically and mentally handicapped and victims of domestic violence.
[30][31][32] Unanimously approved by the Pennsylvania House,[33] the resolution resulted in a report by the commission to the general assembly in late November of that same year, which "noted the biggest gap in the law concerns [abusers'] ability to still get their hands on a gun," and recommended "either narrowing the list of people who can serve as third-party safekeepers of a defendant's weapons or ... giving courts the power to issue search-and-seizure orders for guns as part of PFA orders and ending a family exemption from background checks for transfers of handguns.
No action can prevent perpetrators who are mentally ill or otherwise psychologically determined to harm or kill a former partner from acting on those urges—particularly if they are suicidal.
[42] The recipient, for fourteen consecutive years, of the National Federation of Independent Business's Guardian of Small Business Award, she was also honored by the Lebanon County Sexual Assault Resource Counseling Center (SARCC) with its Children's Hero Award.
[48] In addition, Gingrich helped to design and staff the Hershey Medical Center's volunteer service for in-patient use of its Jamie's Place program, and volunteered with the hearing impairments educational outreach component of the Lebanon-Lancaster Intermediate Unit's LEAP Program.