He served from 2007 until 2014 as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 20, which included neighborhoods in Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

For his senior thesis, he directed a statewide student lobbying effort to pass legislation strengthening Massachusetts' testing standards for drinking water.

The group combined door-to-door organizing, grassroots leadership development, policy research, and face-to-face advocacy with lawmakers.

Both laws require most county contractors to pay their workers enough to feed their families without food stamps—over 130% of the federal poverty level.

As an advocate in Annapolis, he then authored and led efforts to pass the nation's first statewide living wage bill in 2004,[2] which was vetoed after the legislative session by Gov.

In his first General Assembly session, Hucker authored and was co-lead sponsor of the first statewide living wage law in the nation.

[12] The law required most state contractors to pay their workers wages high enough to feed their families without needing food stamps—about 130% of the federal poverty level (HB 430).

[22] Hucker served as the representative of the Maryland General Assembly on the Board of Directors of Purple Line Now!,[23] an advocacy group organized to protect the environment and expand transit options by building a light rail line from Bethesda through Silver Spring, past the University of Maryland-College Park, and on to New Carrollton, Maryland.

Because of his years of successful advocacy inside and outside the General Assembly, Hucker also served on the board of directors of the Progressive States Network, a national nonprofit that provides research and strategic advocacy tools to help state legislators to pass progressive policy reforms, including legislation to reward work, strengthen communities, and expand health care access.

Hucker helped lead the fight to guarantee paid sick leave[33] for all workers in Montgomery County and voted[34] to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour in 2017, which went into effect in 2021.

In 2020, he introduced Ezechiel’s Law,[36] a bill that requires landlords to install window guards for free for tenants with children under the age of 10.

[41] He has advocated for the expansion of public transit in Montgomery County, leading efforts to expand Ride-On Express[42] on US-29 beginning May 2018, proposing and receiving funding for BRT[43] on New Hampshire Avenue and the Burtonsville Access Road.

In 2021, he introduced and passed a bill to expand review and oversight of body-worn camera footage and improve transparency in the reporting of serious police incidents.