GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: 2018

2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
438th session of General Assembly
convened in Annapolis, Maryland
January 10 - 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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