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Appropriations Committee advances multiple bills in first voting session; several pass unanimously
Summary
In a short first voting session, the Appropriations Committee voted favorably on a package of departmental and policy bills — including tuition exemptions for dependents of fallen public safety workers, advertising rules for private career schools, sickle-cell accommodations in higher education, a $1 billion MDTA debt-cap increase, and housing-program oversight — and marked three bills withdrawn.
The Appropriations Committee held its first voting session and approved several bills by voice or roll-call votes, with members recording unanimous 'yay' votes on the items considered.
The session opened with the chair noting, “So this is our first voting session,” and a brief procedural reminder that votes are final. The committee then took up a sequence of bills that were moved and seconded with little discussion beyond sponsor summaries and brief procedural questions.
Delegate Smith introduced House Bill 3, “a bill that allows the dependent child of a state or local public safety employee who dies as a result of or in the course of performing duties to be exempt from paying out of state or out of county tuition at a public institution of higher education in the state,” and said the Maryland Higher Education Commission must adopt regulations to implement the measure. The committee completed a roll call and the chair announced that the bill passed in committee.
Delegate Smith also…
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