Tag: Kathleen Dumais
Bill on more open internet car pricing dies in House committee
Buyers searching to purchase a car on the internet hope to find the lowest price but often auto...
Read MorePolice conduct, drug crime sentencing focus of General Assembly’s proposed reforms
The Maryland General Assembly responded in this year’s legislative session to public concern about police misconduct, drug crime, domestic violence and more.
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Making sexual abuse by therapists a crime is one woman’s crusade
A bill seeking to make the abuse of patients by their therapists a crime has brought together an unlikely team of legislators and a young woman who could have never imagined herself so immersed in state legislation, coined “Lynette’s Law,” HB 60. Heather Lynette Sinclair, 27, turned to Maryland lawmakers in hope that she might be able to end an invisible chain of abuse within the mental health field.
Read MoreHouse approves suspension of child support payments for inmates
The House of Delegates narrowly passed a bill on Wednesday that would exclude individuals from making child support payments while serving a prison sentence.
Under the legislation, child support payments would be suspended for anyone incarcerated for more than 18 consecutive months and continuing 60 days after their release to avoid the accrual of an unmanageable lump sum.
Read MoreSame-sex marriage bill gets one amendment; goes for final vote Friday night
After just over an hour of debate on Friday afternoon, the House same sex marriage bill was ready for a final vote, scheduled for Friday evening. Amid reports that 200 potential amendments to the polarizing legislation had been drafted, only five were actually offered during the afternoon session and only one passed.
Read MoreJoint House committee moves same-sex marriage to House floor
With a joint committee vote of 25-18, including a lone Republican supporter, a bill allowing same-sex marriage in Maryland was sent to the full House of Delegates to be voted on as soon as this week.
Read MoreSame-sex marriage ready for final vote Friday as amendment attempts fail
Supporters of same-sex marriage in the House of Delegates beat back several attempts to amend the legislation Wednesday, paving the way for a final vote Friday on the legislation in exactly the same form that it passed the Senate two weeks ago.
The House leadership had made clear that the bill needed to stay exactly the same or it would likely die if returned to the Senate.
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