Senate committee approves budget with tax increases for most and gradual teacher pension shift to school boards; same-sex marriage backers plan their campaign and O’Malley says he thinks the law will stand on MSNBC; amendment requiring construction workers for speed camera citations fails by one vote; Impallaria’s state office makes calls in congressional campaign; compromise reached on public defender law; O’Malley likely to veto medical marijuana bills.
Day: March 9, 2012
Senate budget plan includes tax hikes for all, pension shift to counties
The Senate Budget and Tax Committee on Thursday sent a $35 billion budget to the full Senate that includes income tax increases for almost everyone and $600 million in ongoing spending cuts.
This fiscal 2013 spending plan includes a shift of teacher pension costs to county school boards, along with new requirements for county governments to fund public schools, allowing them to even disregard local property tax caps to do so.
Teacher pension shift would cost counties $500 million over next four years
In the Senate’s proposed budget plan, some of the costs of teacher retirement would be shifted to county school boards over the next four years, not to the county governments next year, as Gov. Martin O’Malley had proposed. But the approved proposal would ultimately force counties to give their school boards $500 million more over the next four years.
Podcast: Smart meters are a dumb idea, says one delegate
Are smart meters for electric usage a dumb idea? Del. Glen Glass, R-Harford, has a bill to allow consumers to opt out of the smart meters, calling them intrusive and bad for your health.
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