It took exactly an hour for @GovLarryHogan to sign 182 bills. He joshed that new Speaker Adrienne Jones was pressuring him to start at 11:01 a.m. "There's no more fooling around," he observed. #MDGA19

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Clean Energy Jobs Act wins final passage in the Senate, 31-15 #MDGA19 #sinedie

.@Senatornjk, please call HB1091 for a vote. Marylanders want to understand the financial & environmental impacts of 495/270 expansion. #MDPolitics #MDGA19

House of Delegates has just voted 136-0 to reprimand @DrJayJalisi for "unrepentant workplace bullying" Story to follow #MDGA19

An intensely political debate is under way in the House of Delegates on legislation to set up a prescription drug affordability bill for state and local governments #MDGA19

State Senate has just passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act by a vote of 33-13. House version of the bill sitting in the Economic Matters Committee. #MDGA19

House votes 97-36 to strip the state comptroller's office of its duties to regulate alcohol and tobacco. That's a veto-proof majority if it holds. #MDGA19

House Economic Matters Committee votes 17-3 to strip regulation of alcohol and tobacco from the state comptroller's office. A subcommittee earlier had removed motor fuels from the bill, meaning the comptroller would still have regulatory powers there if bill passed. #MDGA19

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State Senate just gives preliminary approval to a bill giving local school districts the option of whether to start the school year before Labor Day. Vote was along party lines, 32-14, with one Republican absent. #MDGA19

Republicans Focus on the Session - and the Future - Maryland Matters Maryland Republicans and conservatives, fresh off an election with decidedly mixed results – a robust victory for Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr., but failure in key legislative and county races – are already looking to the future. On Saturday, 150 conservative activists and political leaders got together in an Annapolis hotel ballroom to gear up […]

Maryland Republicans are preparing for the next battles:#MDpolitics #MDGA19

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Staff of Senate Prez. Mike Miller passes out a statement confirming that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in July and must now undergo chemotherapy during the legislative session. 'The story should be about the Senate, it's not about me,' Miller tells colleagues. #MDGA19

We have @DanielleEGaines and @joshkurtznews in the state Senate this AM, awaiting a public statement from Senate President Mike Miller on his health #MDGA19

58% of MD voters favor making recreational marijuana legal while only 49% favor legalized sports gambling. Care to make a wager on which of these issues will receive more attention in the #MDGA19?

I’m looking for some good Maryland State Legislative district maps showing the outcome of the 2018 election in the MD Senate and House of Delegates. Something to replace the prior maps. Thanks in advance #mdpolitics #MDGA19

Franchot Defends Regulation Before Task Force Meeting - Maryland Matters Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) is defending his office’s role in alcohol regulation, just as a task force formed to review the agency’s work is set to meet for a final time in Annapolis Monday. Before recommending removing regulatory authority from the comptroller’s office, The Task Force State Alcohol Regulation, Enforcement, Safety, and Public Health should […]

As a commission appointed by legislative leaders prepares today to skewer his office, @peterfranchot fights back#MDpolitics #MDGA19

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