The Board of Revenue Estimates voted this week to write down revenues by approximately $73 million - $18 million in fiscal 2019 and $55 million in fiscal 2020.  With this decrease, the State will still have more than $1 billion in unspent revenue as it approaches the 2019 General Assembly Session. From the Comptroller's prepared [...]

The 2019 Issue Papers, which preview fiscal and policy issues for the upcoming session, were recently posted to the General Assembly’s website. Prepared by the Department of Legislative Services each year at this time, they highlight key issues to be discussed and serve as a valuable resource for those in Annapolis. 2019 Issue Papers

 The Prince George's County House Delegation met on November 14 to elect its officers for the upcoming session. Delegate Michael Jackson, D-Dist. 27 B was elected as the new Chair, to serve a two-year term succeeding Chair Jay Walker.  Delegate Alonzo Washington, D-Dist. 22, was elected First Vice Chair and Delegate Darryl Barnes, D-Dist. 25, [...]

Now that the General Elections are behind us, Dentons US LLP recently released its US Election Insight 2018 Report. Prepared by Dentons' bipartisan public policy team, the report... ...dissects the personalities and politics that shaped the midterms and offers insight into the issues that will animate Washington and state capitols across the country in the [...]

  Courtesy: Maryland Manual Should the results of Tuesday's election hold, the Senate will be welcoming 17 new members in January. Eleven Senators-elect are former Delegates, 9 of whom currently serve in the House of Delegates. Manis Canning & Associates has created a Senate Chart summarizing the Senate member changes by district and the [...]

Comptroller Peter Franchot recently announced that the State closed out fiscal year 2018 with a surplus of $508 million. As reported by the Baltimore Sun, Strong returns from the state’s capital gains tax returns helped revenues come in about $339 million — or about 2 percent — higher than expected, while state agencies spent less [...]

Comptroller Peter Franchot has submitted emergency regulations to the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review in light of the South Dakota v. Wayfair decision. This decision reversed a 1992 ruling on Quill Corp. v. North Dakota that said sellers only had to collect state sales taxes if they had a warehouse, office or [...]

Dentons US LLP, of which Manis Canning & Associates is Maryland's member of its national network of government affairs partners Dentons 50, will be holding a webinar on Tuesday, August 7th at 11 a.m. on the state-level changes and activity expected in light of the recent Wayfair decision of the Supreme Court. During the webinar, Dentons [...]

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. recently announced leadership changes for Senate standing committees that will take effect in January 2019. The new chairs and vice chairs of each committee are listed below. Budget and Taxation - Senator Nancy King will serve as Chair and Senator Bill Ferguson will serve as Vice-Chair Education, Health [...]

House Speaker Michael Busch recently announced several leadership changes that will take effect January 2019. Major changes are summarized below. Delegate Kathleen Dumais (Montgomery County) will become Majority Leader. Delegate Luke Clippinger (Baltimore City) will become chair of the Judiciary Committee. Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary (Howard County) will become vice-chair of the Judiciary Committee. Delegate Eric [...]