Governor Moore presided over his first bill signing on April 11, signing a total of 93 bills into law. Bills among those signed included the Fair Wage Act which will accelerate the state’s current $13.25 per hour minimum wage to $15 starting in January versus the previous timetable of 2025. The Family Prosperity Act which will permanently extend the state’s earned income tax to offer both refundable and nonrefundable credits against the state income tax; and also expand the state’s child tax credit to taxpayers who have children aged 5 years and younger and whose federally adjusted annual gross income is $15,000 or less, effective June 1. And, House Bill 1, The Child Victims Act of 2023, which lifts previous statutory time limits to allow survivors to sue their abusers, or organizations that harbored them, “at any time.”
“I entered office saying that this administration would launch the most aggressive, the most strategic, bipartisan, all-out assault on child poverty this state has ever seen,” said Gov. Moore. “I am proud because this session showed that we can move differently. It showed we can move in partnership. And it showed that once again, Maryland can do big things, and Maryland can lead.”
“This legislative agenda makes good on the promise our administration made to leave no Marylander behind,” said Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller. “Beginning with putting Maryland on a path to end child poverty, the results of this historically successful session demonstrate the positive impact of working collaboratively to get things done for Marylanders.”
To view the complete list of bills signed into law, visit: https://governor.maryland.gov/Pages/bill-signings.aspx.
Additional coverage can be found in – Maryland Matters and Maryland Reporter
