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ANNAPOLIS – A suicide attempt is evidence of a mental health problem that needs treatment, not a common-law crime that merits punishment, a state senator said Wednesday in urging his colleagues to stop treating people who try to kill themselves ...

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A measure to enable Maryland residents to select an unspecified gender on their driver's licenses has advanced in the state Senate.Senators gave the measure preliminary approval Wednesday.

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ANNAPOLIS — In anticipation of an update to statewide 9-1-1 communication systems by 2021, gruesome imagery of crime scenes or injuries, individuals’ medical histories and identification of domestic violence or rape victims may be protected from public view under legislation ...

For the third year in a row, activists, attorneys and business groups met Tuesday afternoon at the House Economic Matters Committee in Annapolis to consider a bill that would prohibit employers from asking job applicants about their salary history. House ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State legislation could allow minors to consent to preventive treatment for human immunodeficiency virus or  HIV. Pre-exposure prophylaxis — commonly referred to as “PrEP” — consists of a single pill of a medicine called Truvada taken every day. ...

ANNAPOLIS — Undaunted by a Supreme Court decision on a Maryland law generic drug anti-price gouging law, a top health care advocate is calling for lawmakers to pass price caps on prescription drugs. Vincent DeMarco, president of Maryland Citizens’ Health ...

ANNAPOLIS — The University System of Maryland Board of Regents supports legislation to change the board’s composition and increase transparency, the board’s chair told legislators Tuesday. “The University System of Maryland Board of Regents is pleased to express our support ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Treasurer Nancy Kopp, sworn in Tuesday to her fifth term as the treasurer of Maryland, vowed to work with lawmakers on their priorities after some suggested, albeit briefly, that her time might be up. A clerk reading the hand-tallied ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh has joined the attorneys general of California and 14 other states in a lawsuit filed Monday against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. California ...

Bryan P. Sears, The Daily Record’s government reporter, updates us on the Maryland General Assembly’s 2019 session. We talk about Comptroller Peter Franchot fighting with Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis, the cost of school funding, tax cuts and a lot more. ...

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