From cannabis to abortion to gun control, here's what you need to know about what lawmakers have been up to in Annapolis.
Transgender people on Medicaid would be able to access gender-affirming treatment without jumping through extra hoops that people on private insurance don’t face under legislation approved by both chambers. Moore has promised to sign it.Maryland already covered gender-affirming treatment through Medicaid, but it proscribed a set of circumstances to access it. The bill allows access based on the opinion of medical professionals.
Two focused on child poverty: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour faster than planned and expanding or making permanent a pandemic-era tax credit.Those tax credits give a lump sum to the working poor and a larger tax credit to low-income parents of young children. Under the bills that passed, the statewide minimum wage would hit $15 an hour in January 2024, a year earlier than planned. It will not, as Moore had proposed, be indexed to inflation and automatically increase in the future.
Four bills were related to public service, including the governor’s marquee legislation to create a year-of-service program for young adults. Under the legislation, people who recently graduated from high school or got a G.E.D. could apply for a year-long service program, working for an organization that partnered with the government. It also now provides funding for Maryland Corps, a related volunteer organization that had yet to be implemented.
Moore’s final four bills are related to the economy. One would give matching grants to companies that build high-tech infrastructure such as wet labs or sensitive data centers. Another would defray the cost of buying electric trucks rather than gas-powered ones plus help cover the expense of charging stations.
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