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Senator outlines broad overhaul to modernize Maryland military laws to 'uniform services'
Summary
Senate Bill 277 is part of an eight-bill package to standardize military-related definitions across Maryland law, replacing some references to 'armed forces' with 'uniform services' and centralizing definitions to ease future updates; veterans groups and military advocates urged support.
Senate Bill 277, presented Jan. 28 to the Senate Finance Committee, is part of an eight‑bill package to modernize Maryland’s laws touching military service. Sponsor Sen. Brian Simon Ayers said the package updates more than 500 references across roughly 230 statutory sections and replaces inconsistent, locally defined terms with centralized, federally aligned definitions.
“The problem is definitions are locally defined … and they all have little different definitions,” Sen. Simon Ayers told…
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