Heading into the final day of the General Assembly's 90-day session, the House of Delegates had taken no action on a Senate Bill designed to prevent raids on the Transportation Trust Fund.

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With most big ticket items passed days and weeks ago, the General Assembly session strolled to a close Monday night with a controversial "lockbox" bill and persistently pesky dog-bite bill dominating rhetoric in the State House in the final hours.

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The House of Delegates voted 110-27 on Monday night to pass a bill that would make it more difficult for the governor and General Assembly to use money earmarked for transportation for non-transportation purposes.

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Legislation that would make it significantly more difficult for the governor and General Assembly to use transportation money for non-transportation purposes could be considered by two House of Delegates committees.

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The big ticket items -- increasing the gas tax to pay for transportation projects, repealing the death penalty and increasing gun control -- are already resolved heading into the General Assembly's last day.

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A week has passed since the General Assembly approved gas tax and transit fare hikes to replenish the Transportation Trust Fund, which analysts say would be otherwise bereft of money for new construction projects by mid-2017.

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With Gov. Martin O’Malley going beyond his own transportation panel’s recommendation to raise the gasoline tax, advocating a total levy of 21 cents a gallon, one might think that the administration and the General Assembly would have a plan at ...

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