With the governor and legislators pushing for an increase in Maryland’s state minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, advocates of people with disabilities want to make sure their paid caregivers get higher wages, since the state now only reimburses them at $9.82 an hour.
Day: February 27, 2014
State board gives local election officials 12% pay raise
The State Board of Elections voted unanimously Thursday to give county election directors and their deputies a 12% salary increase.
Local election officials have not received a pay raise in 14 years. The board also took no formal action to rein in Lamone’s authority, as some board members had proposed earlier this month.
State Roundup, February 27, 2014
Sun investigation looks into what one delegate who has introduced workers’ compensation bills while working as a partner in one of the state’s biggest law firms in the field – and asks when does expertise become a conflict of interest?; Del. Dwyer testifies for bill mandating minimum sentences for officials in drunk driving cases; Senate continues to wrestle over dog bite bill; Catoctin Zoo hopes to alter “lions, tigers and bears bill;” firearms bill before Senate panel: One aims to kill “good time” credits for inmates who used a firearm in crime; Del. Love decides not to seek re-election; Gansler supporters drop suit against Brown over fundraising issue; and Mandel documentary available online.
Treasurer, comptroller urge senators to restore $100M cut in pension funding
In unusual joint testimony, Maryland State Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot, chair and vice-chair of the state pension board, pleaded with Senate budgeters not to permanently cut $100 million in state payments to the retirement system. They said the cut proposed by Gov. Martin O’Malley had high long-term repercussions and undermined the state’s credibility with bond rating agencies by reneging on promises made in 2011 pension reforms.
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