Friend,

The Maryland General Assembly will adjourn on April 12th. There are three weeks left of the Maryland legislative session and the MGA has been hard at work since January 13th. Yesterday we passed the “crossover” deadline, which is an important mile marker of the session. (If you’re not familiar with what crossover is, read more about it from my last session insider email here, and don’t forget that you can sign up for my insider emails by opting in to my insider email list.)

I wanted to give you all an update about where some of our priority bills stand after crossover, and what we’re focusing on in the final weeks:

• SB414/HB583 - Climate Solutions Now Act (Passed Senate)
   
• HB298/SB83 - Public Service Commission, Climate & Labor (Passed Senate and House)
   
• SB199/HB114 - Transit Safety and Investment Act (Passed House and Senate)
   
• HB1187/SB853 - Juvenile Justice Reform bill (Passed House)
   
• SB494/HB409 - Juvenile Restoration Act (Passed Senate)
   
• SB9/HB486 - Higher Education Collective Bargaining (Passed Senate)
   
• SB486/HB581 - Maryland Essential Workers’ Protection Act
   
• HB18/SB154, HB1312/SB910, HB52/SB454 Housing Justice Package (Passed House)
   
• HB463/SB172 - Health Equity Resource Act (Passed House and Senate)
   
• HB655 - District At-Large Voting (Passed House)
   
• HB155/SB98 - Inclusive Schools Act (Passed House)
   
• HB1213 - Creditworthiness (Passed House)
   
• HB1210 - Corporate Board Diversity (Passed House)
   
• HB1/SB1 - HBCU funding (Passed House and Senate, sent to Governor)
   
• HB944/SB711 - Childcare Pilot Program (Passed House)
   
• HB907/SB817, HB1138/SB818, HB1002 - Unemployment System Reforms (Passed House and Senate)

We’re glad to see so much progress on our priorities, and are going to be pushing hard for all of these bills to pass before the General Assembly adjourns in April. There’s still work to be done before sine die!

Alice Wilkerson
Executive Director