Starting on Wednesday, all unserialized firearms and unfinished frames and receivers must be registered in Maryland. Beginning June 1, 2022, any individuals that currently own these 'ghost guns' will be required to have each marked with a personal identification number before the deadline on March 1, 2023. “Unfinished Frame or Receiver” is defined as “a [...]
Governor Hogan recently announced additional legislative actions allowing 294 bills to take effect without his signature and vetoing 18 pieces of legislation. A complete list of House bills that will take effect without signature is available here. A complete list of Senate bills that will take effect without signature is available here. Policy vetoes include the following: [...]
The Report on the Fiscal 2023 State Operating Budget (SB 290) and the State Capital Budget (SB 291) and Related Recommendations, otherwise known as the “Joint Chairmen’s Report,” is now available on the General Assembly website. This report summarizes the final actions taken by the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Appropriations Committee [...]
Governor Hogan, joined by House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson, signed an additional 140 bipartisan bills into law May 16, including the state’s historic capital budget, as well as measures to cap the cost of insulin, expand the state’s commitment to fight dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, and permanently allow paramedics and EMTs [...]
Governor Hogan, joined by House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson, signed 105 bills into law on Thursday. Initiatives signed into law included measures to prevent opioid overdoses statewide, direct more funding to local governments for infrastructure improvements, bolster the state's cybersecurity network, and provide for additional steps to divest from Russia and [...]
Governor Hogan announced this week that Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Environment Horacio Tablada will succeed current Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles starting June 1. As reported by Maryland Matters, Grumbles is leaving to become executive director of the Environmental Council of the States, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan association of state and territorial environmental [...]
Governor Larry Hogan signed an additional 103 bipartisan bills into law last week. Governor Hogan was joined by House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Senate President Pro Tem Melony Griffith, who was filling in for Senate President Bill Ferguson. The bill signing marked a historic first in Maryland, with two Black women filling the role of [...]
The Department of Legislative Services recently released its 90 Day Report providing a summary of the major issues of the 2022 General Assembly session and an overview of what passed and what did not. The 90 Day Report is divided into 12 parts, each dealing with a major policy area. Each part contains a discussion of [...]
The 2022 General Assembly session came to a close Monday evening, April 11 at midnight with final action being taken on a number of bills and a few others left outstanding. In all, a total of 2,520 bills, and joint resolutions were introduced, of which 835 passed. A total of 594 legislative bond initiatives were [...]
Governor Hogan, President Ferguson, and Speaker Jones gathered in the Maryland State House Tuesday morning to sign several bills which passed the General Assembly into law. The leaders praised each other for their commitment to passing bipartisan legislation this past session and for the duration of the governor's two terms. From the Governor's press release: [...]
