Day: November 22, 2011

State Roundup, November 22, 2011

Redistricting challenge to move to appellate court; renewable energy outlays expected to recoup $3.2 million over five years; state to move on fertilizer restrictions despite complaints of weakened regs; Conservation Voters to revive failed environmental bills; effects of supercommittee’s failure expected to reach all sectors of Maryland; slots parlors don’t meet minority contract baseline; Miller asks ethics committee to look into Currie actions; Hoyer says he’ll back Edwards; Montgomery police union gets bargaining curbs on the ballot; and Howard County Council takes up transgendered rights.

Health exchange board ponders how to pay for key element of reform act

The state’s Health Benefit Exchange Board has five weeks to deliver recommendations to the legislature outlining how a federally mandated health insurance exchange program will be implemented and paid for. The report is due in late December to give the General Assembly time to pass legislation affecting the exchange, which is supposed to be up and running by January 2014.

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