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The General Assembly took an important step toward repealing Maryland's death penalty Thursday night when the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee approved Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill to end capital punishment. - Howard County is considering other locations than North Laurel's Beechcrest Mobile Home Park to build an apartment complex for the chronically homeless, county spokesman Mark Miller confirmed this week.
- At the Carroll County Senate Delegation's public hearing last week at the County Office Building in Westminster, Sen. Joseph Getty (R-Dist. 5), outgoing delegation chairman, opened the session expressing disappointment that the County House Delegation had decided to hold its own separate hearing the following day.
- After losing his appeal of the new legislative redistricting map, Towson state Sen. Jim Brochin has begun introducing himself to his new constituents in northern Baltimore County.
- The Maryland Senate passed Gov. Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates for a decision when the General Assembly's special session continues into a second week Monday.
- The House and Senate have both passed bills that would make it illegal to use a dead person's preserved genetic material to reproduce without the notarized, written agreement of the donor.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed 7-4 in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and is expected to be debated on the Senate floor as early as Wednesday.
- Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller has named a special committee to review that state's ethics laws that apply to legislators and other state and local officials and make recommendations for reforms that could be voted on as early as this year.
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