As the dust settled on a flurry of lawmaking, here’s where some key initiatives stood.

Political goings-on from Baltimore and around the state.

U.S. Marshals and FBI agents have sought McGrath since Monday when he failed to show to federal court in Baltimore for his fraud trial.

Legislation would enable more civil lawsuits against churches, schools and other institutions that employed or supervised perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

With key deadline approaching, governor’s chief legislative officer noted “all 10 of our bills are moving in some form.”

”We’re concerned that something may have happened,” an FBI agent told sheriff’s deputies in a Monday phone call.

Law enforcement was seen again Wednesday morning at the Florida home of Roy McGrath, the ex-chief of staff to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who remains missing after skipping out on his criminal trial Monday.

Here’s where legislative priorities stand with less than 30 days remaining in the 2023 General Assembly.

Roy McGrath, who was once chief of staff to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, remains missing on Tuesday, one day after he skipped out on his federal criminal trial.

McGrath, who now lives in Florida, was due in U.S. District Court in Baltimore at 9 a.m.

Many of federal and state charges center around the severance payment and how McGrath secured it — specifically whether he misled the Maryland Environmental Service Board of Directors into approving the payment.

Baltimore finance officials told members of the City Council they have cashed the first $14 million payment from a controversial agreement with BGE.

The baseball team’s lease at Oriole Park at Camden Yards is set to expire at the end of the year.

The state government budget is still growing from one year to the next, it’s just not growing as much as previously anticipated. That means an expected $820 million surplus has shrunk to $342 million.

The attorney general’s office has investigated fatal encounters with police since late 2021, but it had been up to local prosecutors to decide whether to bring criminal charges. A bill moving forward would strip the authority to prosecute these cases from state’s attorneys, handing the responsibility to the attorney general instead.

Less than half of the money raised by the Moore Miller Inaugural Committee came through individual ticket sales, with the rest coming from corporate and other donors.

The Republican says he won't enter the field for the 2024 presidential election. He previously flirted with a run in 2020, but also opted out that time.

House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones was one of five Black state house speakers invited to a White House meeting on Monday, the same day Gov. Wes Moore attended a Black History Month event at the White House.

Museum workers have been trying to form a union for two years, but the effort ran into thorny legal and political issues. In Maryland, workers at government agencies often need to have a state law approved in order to begin the process of forming a union.

“We are hoping it is not thousands of people, that it’s hundreds,” Maryland Human Services Secretary Rafael J. López told lawmakers.