GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: 2018

2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
438th session of General Assembly
convened in Annapolis, Maryland
January 10 to April 9, 2018
BILLS
Introduced Passed
Senate 1,269 403
House 1,832 486
Total 3,101 889
Enacted Vetoed
Senate
House
Total
JOINT RESOLUTIONS
Introduced Passed
Senate 12 1
House 14 2
Total 26 3
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Introduced Passed
Senate 9 1
House 19 1
Total 28 2
Submitted to referendum
VETOES
Overridden
BUDGET
Operating Budget $44,600,000,000
Bond-Financed Capital Program
General Obligation Bonds
Consolidated Transportation Bonds
Higher Education Bonds
2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION - SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Amazon headquarters incentive package; antitrust violation penalties; breweries; State budget; collective bargaining; Commission to Restore Trust in Policing; community college tuition; crime reduction; Education Trust Fund; election cybersecurity; estate tax; eviction procedures; federal tax reform; financial consumer protection; gaming revenue for education funding; gay conversion therapy prohibition on minors; gun control; Harry W. Nice/Thomas (Mac) Middleton Bridge; health insurance rates stabilization; higher education afffordability; highway user revenues; income tax; job training; judicial compensation; mandatory minimum sentences for repeat gun offenders; marriage age; Medicaid dental care for adults; medical cannabis (marijuana) grower licenses; Metrorail safety and funding; minimum wage; opioid addiction; paid sick leave policy; police wiretapping authority; political advertising (online); Presidential tax returns; prison medical care and hygiene; public safety; public transportation; pupply mill breeders; Rape Survivor Family Protection Act; regional greenhouse gas initiative; renewable energy; rural broadband; Safe Streets Program funding; school construction funding oversight; school safety; sexual assault evidence collection tracking system; sexual harassment; social media political ads; sports betting; State mental hospitals intake of criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial; State Song; union contracts; voter registration (automatic); witness intimidation punishments; workplace harassment.

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