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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown seeks enforcement recovery fund, defends staffing and training requests
Summary
Attorney General Anthony G. Brown told the Public Safety and Administration Subcommittee that the Office of the Attorney General’s FY27 budget request includes a proposal to create an enforcement recovery fund (House Bill 705) and modest fee increases for securities and consumer-protection work, and asked the committee not to cut training funds or two proposed positions.
Attorney General Anthony G. Brown told the subcommittee on Jan. 30 that the Office of the Attorney General’s fiscal 2027 allowance reflects both routine personnel costs and programmatic priorities, and he pressed lawmakers to approve a new enforcement recovery fund to capture civil penalties for use in future consumer-protection and enforcement work.
Brown said the overall OAG allowance increases by $8.3 million to $101.6 million in fiscal 2027 and described the $3.6 million in general funds to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation as a pass-through, not an operating expansion for his office. “We don’t touch it, modify it, influence it in any way. It’s a pure pass through,” Brown said, urging the committee to treat those dollars separately from OAG…
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