The Spending Affordability Committee, composed of members of the General Assembly and two public members, met this week to discuss the State's capital program, debt policy, transportation trust fund, personnel, and the retirement and pension system. This is the second of a series of meetings that will lead to spending and budget recommendations to provide [...]
During a tribute in her honor, Delegate Sheila Hixson announced that she would not run for re-election. Delegate Hixson has served more than four decades in Annapolis representing Montgomery County. She has been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee since 1993. From the Bethesda Beat, “Here tonight, I wanted to be with you, [...]
Governor Hogan has announced a comprehensive initiative to bolster computer science education in Maryland. The initiative, called the ACCESS Initiative (Achieving Computer Science Collaborations for Employing Students Statewide), includes legislation to set standards for computer science training in public schools, $5 million in grants in next year’s state budget for grants to local school systems [...]
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Manis Canning & Associates is a proud member of the National Association of State Lobbyists (NASL). NASL is a network of leading state government affairs professionals and state lobbyists across America. Member firms provide a broad scope of state legislative lobbyist and other services for clients including the nation’s and states’ top private and publicly owned [...]
Members of the General Assembly's Spending Affordability and fiscal committees learned of a lower than expected revenue shortfall yesterday during a briefing by the Department of Legislative Services (DLS). Warren Deschenaux, Executive Director of DLS, informed the members that the state budget gap, originally anticipated to be $740 million, has been reduced to $250 million [...]
Governor Hogan recently issued an executive order directing the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security to coordinate, improve, and implement an updated cybersecurity plan to ensure that Maryland is prepared to confront today’s cyber threats. From the Governor's press release: The order lays out a collaborative process for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, led by Walter [...]
Acting Secretary of Health Dennis Schrader announced yesterday the appointment of Dionne Washington as the new Chief of Staff for the Medicaid program. Ms. Washington has more than 20 years of combined government, private sector and health care experience. She has previously worked at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as an executive associate, first working [...]
An article by Josh Kurtz of Maryland Matters highlights potential changes in the Maryland Senate during this election cycle. ...between a combination of retirements, bids for higher office, scrapes with the law and possible defeats, the state Senate is likely to see one of its biggest shake-ups in recent memory – perhaps entirely on the [...]
Several new laws took effect on October 1 ranging from measures to ban hydraulic fracking to ethics reform. An article in the Washington Post describes some of the measures. The measures include: a law on price gouging that gives the state attorney general the authority to sue drug companies that dramatically increase the price of [...]
