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Harford County delegation sets liquor‑bill rules, schedules leadership votes and scholar reception fundraising
Summary
At its opening 2025 session meeting, the Harford County Delegation approved minutes, set procedure that delegation approval is required before county liquor bills are filed, scheduled chair and vice‑chair elections for next week, and discussed fundraising for the annual scholar reception.
Delegate Teresa Riley, chair of the Harford County Delegation, opened the delegation's first meeting of the 2025 legislative session and led members through procedural business, including approval of prior minutes, guidance on how Harford County liquor bills must be introduced, and planning for the delegation’s annual scholar reception.
The delegation voted to approve minutes from its Feb. 15, 2024 meeting after a motion by Delegate Arkin; a second was recorded but the seconding member was not named in the transcript. The chair said the delegation intends to take up Harford County liquor bills first at next week’s meeting because the county must vote to endorse local liquor requests before they are filed at the Maryland General Assembly (MGA). Delegation members were also told elections for chair and vice chair will occur in the second week of session.
Why it matters: Harford’s delegation approval process controls whether municipal or county liquor‑license bills are filed with the General Assembly, and the delegation’s…
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