Maryland House moves to regulate youth camps statewide
The Maryland House of Delegates tentatively approved a bill to regulate youth camps, rejecting exemptions for church and charity camps or counties. It would require the health secretary to set standards on personnel, sanitation, water safety, equipment, and health plans, with critics noting lack of hard accident data and concerns about nonprofit costs.
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Annapolis
House of Delegates
Maryland
Del
Gerald Devlin
Prince Georges County
del. V
Lanny Hardenhorn
R-Carroll
William HH. Amass
Health Department
Senate battle looms over Fort Armistead prison site
In Annapolis the House Appropriations Committee backed a 26 million bond to buy Fort Armistead Park for a state prison, triggering a coming Senate clash. Critics say Acting Gov. Blair Lee III aims to shift sites post election, while supporters emphasize urgent need for 2,900 new beds to ease overcrowding.
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Annapolis
House Appropriations Committee
Baltimore
Fort Armistead Park
Blair Lee HI
Anne Arundel County
East Baltimore
Del
Paul E. Weisengoff
Lee
South
Weisengoff
del. Frank B. Pesci Sr
Marvin Mandel
New
Carrollton
Fort Armistead
City
State Penitentiary
Montgomery County rejects police hiring quotas stance
Rockville Maryland Montgomery County rejects federal demands to set hiring quotas for blacks and to lower education standards for police applicants County Executive James Gleason sent a letter to the EEOC on Thursday asking for more time to reconsider The EEOC may forward the matter to the Justice Department if no change occurs Gleason called the demands unrealistic noting the county plans to hire a class that is one third black and one third female while maintaining educational requirements and questioning the feasibility of hiring more than that many black officers William Hussman said the county would not lower standards to match the targets.
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Rockville
Montgomery County
James Gleason
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Justice Department
Gleason
William Hussman
Hussman
Court voids Pepco 3.6 million rate cut in Maryland
The Prince George's County Circuit court ruled Pepco's 3.6 million rate cut, imposed after the Douglas Point nuclear plant cancellation, invalid. It said the Maryland Public Service Commission acted arbitrarily and failed to review the full rate case, potentially making customers liable for a plant never built.
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Upper Marlboro, Md
Prince George's County
Potomac Electric Power Co
Maryland
Maryland State Public Service Commission
Pepco
Douglas Point
Ethics bill amended deep cuts mark Maryland debate
In Annapolis a seven hour Senate session produced a heavily amended ethics and conflict of interest bill amid party clashes. Key changes require disclosure of income from entities with over ten thousand dollars in annual state business and extend a similar standard to lawyers, while preserving secrecy for some fees. The measure also pushes local ethics laws for towns above ten thousand by 1979, with first disclosures due in 1980 and a final vote expected soon.
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Jerome F. Connell
D-Anne Arundel
Senate
Maryland
Blair Lee
Executive Branch
Connell
Steinberg
Constitutional and Public Law Committee
Common Cause
Edward T. Conroy
Prince Georges
John A. Cade
Anne Arundel
Cade
Byrnes
Hoyer declines offer to join Lee ticket in Maryland
In Annapolis AP report Senate President Steny Hoyer said Acting Gov Blair Lee II approached him about joining Lee's ticket, but he is not interested. Hoyer noted Lee did not make a formal offer, only raised the possibility and suggested Lee could be a competent lieutenant governor.
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Annapolis
Senate
Steny H. Hoyer
Blair Lee II
Lee
Hoyer
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