With the conference committee’s first meeting on Thursday, the last great budget battle starts; General Assembly scrambles to create incentives to purchase Rocky Gap; farm bill stays stalled; anti-discrimination bill gets discriminatory treatment; school bus camera bill gets preliminary Senate approval.
Day: April 1, 2011
Senate committee to vote on unionizing state-paid home health providers
The Senate Finance Committee is likely to vote today (Friday) on a controversial proposal to unionize independent home health care workers who are paid by the state — a proposal the committee has already rejected once.
Blog: In the mother of all backrooms, budget conference gets underway
Of all the backrooms in Annapolis where deals on legislation are struck, Room 111 at the back of the Legislative Services Building may be the mother of all backrooms. For some years now, this room is where the pseudo-public conference committee meets to hash out the differences between the House and Senate over the state budget.
Blog: Discrimination stories, frivolous lawsuits dominate Senate debate
A bill to create a state option for people who feel they have been discriminated against by hotels, bars and restaurants, theaters and stores led senators into an impassioned discussion of discrimination, the woes of small business and frivolous lawsuits on Thursday morning.
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