State government

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

The Board of Public Works approved $625,968 to hire a team of registered nurses to assess the safety and baseline mental and physical well being of patients. The spending board used an emergency procurement method to hire Shore Staffing Inc. of Marion Station.

Overdose prevention sites in Maryland would reduce fatalities and provide a public health solution to the health crisis arising from drug abuse and addiction, say two state legislators who are supporting a bill to help establish the facilities.

”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.

What started as a health education bill could end up giving the Maryland schools superintendent broad power to withhold funding from school districts who don't follow curriculum guidance.

If the bills become law, a local election board would be required to begin canvassing absentee ballots — preparing them to be counted — eight business days before the first day of early voting.

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.

With recreational marijuana use becoming legal in Maryland, the General Assembly must now preclude police officers from relying on cannabis odor alone as a pretext for stops and searches, Michele D. Hall, an assistant Maryland public defender, says.

The Maryland General Assembly in 2021 passed a bill that removed the governor from the regular parole process for those who are serving life sentences.

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

The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.

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.

Three of the four bills Gov. Wes Moore has promised to sign are one step closer to his desk.

In a phone interview Friday, Gov. Wes Moore emphasized his belief that the Maryland Stadium Authority and Orioles will come to an agreement over a new long-term lease at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. He underscored his passion to develop the stadium complex at Camden Yards into a year-round destination.

The bill to set up a recreational cannabis marketplace is one step closer to becoming law.

A state bill cleared a key Senate committee Friday to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the legal right to sue the church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.

Replacing gas appliances with electric ones make sense, but it can be costly. Maryland lawmakers are exploring ways to expand rebates for electrification.