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ANNAPOLIS — A bill that guts school construction funding oversight by the Board of Public Works is headed to a certain veto and override battle. Senate Democrats rammed through the legislation Thursday, two days after receiving it from the House of ...

The Senate and House of Delegates appear headed to a compromise on their different versions of legislation that would permit the prosecution to introduce at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults.

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The former Baltimore lawmaker will be sentenced in July. He formally resigned from the General Assembly on Thursday morning.

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A Maryland bill would incentivize investors to put their funds in Maryland cybersecurity companies, attempting to overcome an apparent lack of capital for the state’s startups. The bill also brings in an administration plan to create a “Buy Maryland” program ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A bill that would strip the three-person panel led by Gov. Larry Hogan of oversight on school construction funding appears to be on a fast track for passage after a Senate Committee approved the bill without a hearing. ...

Two bills pending in the General Assembly banning cyberbullying and revenge porn have broad support but have been opposed by the ACLU of Maryland over First Amendment concerns.

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An hour of Supreme Court arguments Wednesday shed little light on whether partisan gerrymandering can be so severe as to violate the minority party’s constitutional right to political association. But, if it can, the justices made clear Maryland’s 6th Congressional District would be the textbook case.

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly has approved an automatic voter registration bill. The House of Delegates voted 93-46 for the measure Wednesday. The Senate passed it 31-13. The bill designates agencies to register residents to vote, unless the applicant ...

ANNAPOLIS — A measure to prohibit health professionals from practicing “gay conversation therapy” on minors cleared the Maryland Senate on Wednesday. The Senate voted 34-12 for the bill, which now goes to the House. The measure would classify the practice ...

The bill makes it a misdemeanor for health care practitioners, police officers, educators and human service workers to knowingly fail to report child abuse.

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