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The committee approved House Bill 618, a measure to allow the State Lottery to sell multi‑draw subscription plans online and to let retailers sell vouchers for those subscriptions at the point of sale. Julianne Fiastro, who identified herself as representing the Lottery, described how the agency currently handles subscriptions: “The entire process is currently online. However, we require a player to print out their form from MyLottery Rewards, send it in with a check, the agency then processes all that paperwork and you go online to your app and you monitor your subscription. So it's taking those middle steps, the printing out and the payment and putting that online.” The bill’s amendments limit subscriptions to 13, 26 or 52 weeks and to four games: Mega Millions, Cash4Life, Powerball and Multi‑Match; a single subscription covers one ticket, and multiple tickets require multiple subscriptions. The committee recorded the motion and carried it in favor (vote tally not specified in the transcript).

The committee also advanced Senate Bill 673, which the members described as creating a statutory program to provide additional salaries for STEM teachers in nonpublic schools. Committee discussion noted the bill currently carries no funding under the AAA amendments but does add a requirement that participating nonpublic schools certify compliance with the State’s nondiscrimination law. Committee members approved sending that concurrence back to the originating chamber (vote tally not specified in the transcript).

On disaster‑recovery procedures, the panel approved House Bill 865 (cross‑filed with Senate Bill 564) to adjust review windows for the State Disaster Recovery Fund. The committee adopted an amendment that increases a review and comment period by the Local Planning Commission from five days to 10 days (the bill originally reduced it to five days), and approved the bill’s posture to match the cross file.

Separately, the committee voted not to concur on Senate Bill 359 (motion to not concur was approved), and it approved a series of concurrences and posture‑matching changes to bring several Senate bills into the same posture as their House cross files. Among those posture‑matching actions listed in the session were SB127/HB300 (indirect costs and elimination of study provisions), SB653/HB819 (employee stock ownership preference technical changes), and SB829/HB991 (extension of the Minority Business Enterprise program and related disparity studies). In each case the committee’s action was described in the transcript as putting the Senate bill in the same posture as the House file; specific vote tallies are not specified in the transcript for those items.

The committee also handled several local or county bills and concurrences (for example, Senate Bill 550 on Baltimore City property tax classification and Senate Bill 596 for Washington County) and approved a prior‑held item concerning sports wagering facility relocation (referred to in the transcript as bill 1000, with the House’s addition of a loyalty‑rewards program noted). The transcript indicates these items were carried or concurred as described but does not include formal, named mover/second records or full vote counts in each instance.

The session included multiple quick posture‑matching votes intended to make Senate and House files identical before further floor action. Where the committee recorded substantive clarifications—most notably the Lottery staff’s explanation of how subscriptions are sold and processed—those clarifications were included in the committee record and reflected in the committee’s posture votes. The transcript did not provide consistent, explicit roll‑call counts or named mover/second for each motion; when the transcript did not record a numeric tally or mover, the committee action in this report is limited to the outcome stated in the record.

Items noted for follow up include any implementation details the Lottery must finalize to eliminate the paper‑print-and-mail step, and whether the STEM teacher program will receive future appropriations (the bill as discussed contains no funding).","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","B&T Committee Session, 4/7/2025 #1","oneSentenceSummary","The Budget and Taxation Committee voted on a slate of bills during a regularly scheduled session, advancing measures on lottery subscription sales, a framework for supplemental pay for STEM teachers in nonpublic schools, adjustments to disaster-recovery review timelines, and a number of concurrences and posture-aligning amendments with the House and Senate.","taxTitle","Budget and Taxation Committee, SENATE, SENATE, Committees, Legislative, Maryland","taxId",15091,"location","Maryland","headline","","shortSummary","actionData","errors"]

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Budget and Taxation Committee moves a package of bills; approves online lottery subscriptions and framework for STEM teacher pay in nonpublic schools