Day: March 4, 2011

Senate begins debate on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

Senate begins debate on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

The Senate will have a full-scale debate on a bill authorizing in-state college tuition for illegal immigrant children who graduated from Maryland high schools after a committee approved it 7-4 on Wednesday.
In a major change to the legislation, the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee specified that any immigrant who qualifies must attend community college first.

Same-sex marriage bill passes House Judiciary Committee

After three days of delay, the House Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 to send the same-sex marriage bill already passed by Senate to the full House of Delegates at a Friday afternoon voting session. The delegates resisted amendments that would have changed the title of the bill or would further change the definition of marriage to allow incest, polygamy, or civil unions.

State Roundup, March 4, 2011

O’Malley’s legislative agenda seems stalled, which is evident as he testified on a bill requiring utilities to invest in wind power; no vote yet on same-sex marriage; reporters get the back story from holdouts Del. Alston and Del. Carter, and a potential new holdout emerges; O’Malley stands up Del. Afzali at farm estate tax exemption hearing; “stakeholder meetings” do significant business behind closed doors; a company owned by Holocaust-era boxcar provider may have to provide significant disclosure to bid on a MARC contract.

Unions rally against “right-to-work” bill

Unionized workers filled the Senate Finance Committee hearing room and the third floor of the Miller Building on Wednesday afternoon to urge committee members to kill a bill that they said would deal a crushing blow to the state’s unions. The bill, sponsored by Howard County Republican Sen. Allan Kittleman, would make Maryland a “right-to-work” state, banning mandatory union membership.

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