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Maryland could be come one of a handful of states that grant special driver's licenses to illegal immigrants under legislation garnering strong support in Annapolis. The bill would expand and extend an existing two-tiered driver's license system to include more than 100,000 people whose immigration status currently prevents them from applying for a license. Gov. Martin O'Malley also backs the plan, which now moves to the House of Delegates. - Companies would have to adjust the duties of women who can't perform their normal jobs because they are pregnant, under legislation pending in the Maryland General Assembly.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's budget for next year was approved by the Senate after an unusually brief debate Wednesday in a sign of the state's improved fiscal condition.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's $36.8 billion budget for next year received preliminary approval in the Senate after an unusually brief debate Wednesday in a sign of the state's improved fiscal condition.
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- Gov. Martin O'Malley achieved a long-sought victory Monday night as the General Assembly gave its final approval to his bill to encourage development of a wind energy industry driven by dozens of giant turbine off the state's Atlantic coast.
- Taking a hard line on the dog owner's responsibility for a pet's behavior, the Senate on Thursday unanimously passed its version of a bill intended to reverse a court decision declaring pit bulls an inherently dangerous breed. That sets up a likely conflict with the House, which has taken a significantly different approach.
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- The Maryland Senate voted Wednesday to make Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty, sending the bill to the House of Delegates.
- Efforts to end Maryland's death penalty moved forward late Monday as the Senate squashed attempts to retain the death penalty for what one senator called "the worst of the worst."
- After an emotional debate that centered on two horrific Maryland murder cases, the Senate rejected an attempt Friday to create exceptions in Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill that would repeal the death penalty.
- The Senate began its floor debate Friday on a bill that would make Maryland the 18th state in the nation to eliminate the death penalty.
- Sen. Brian Frosh, a soft-spoken Montgomery County Democrat, shepherded Gov. Martin O'Malley's top legislative priority through the Senate, leading the more than 12 hours of floor debate on the plan to strengthen Maryland's gun laws.
- Local governments and police on Wednesday attacked a sweeping proposal to change Maryland's speed camera law.
- A Harford County member of the Maryland General Assembly has withdrawn a bill she sponsored to revise the state's speed camera laws, part of a wider legislative effort to either make significant reforms to the controversial speed camera program, or kill it
- As the General Assembly nears the halfway point in its 90-day session, Gov. Martin O'Malley and key legislators have yet to agree on a plan to pay for new roads, bridges and transit lines – a decision many consider critical to Maryland's economy.
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- A bill that would allow a surcharge of up to $2 a month on residential utility bills to pay for new gas pipelines appears to be advancing on a fast track in the General Assembly.
- Attempting to break a years-long stalemate over transportation revenue, Senate President Thomas V. Miller intends to introduce his own legislation this year to provide new funding for roads ands transit using methods that break out of Maryland's traditional formulas.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley on Friday proposed restricting mental health patients' access to firearms as part of a broad gun control package and called for expanding early voting to ease long lines on Election Day.
- After being thwarted the past two years by skittish lawmakers, Gov. Martin O'Malley is preparing once again to introduce a bill aimed at planting mammoth wind turbines off Ocean City — and the measure may finally pass, thanks to a shake-up in a committee that stifled it last year.
