Delegates reject vision tests for drivers license renewals
The Maryland House of Delegates rejected a proposal requiring vision tests for driver license renewals every four years. The body also defeated a higher interest ceiling on land installment contracts and approved bills on youth camps safety standards and city payments in lieu of taxes. Debate touched highway safety, camp accidents, and concerns over taxing and development.
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Annapolis
House of Delgates
Maryland
Baltimore
Del
Joseph Owens
Judiciary Committee
Montgomery
Arthur Murphy
Baltimore Democrat
Murphy
Dels
Charles F. Wagaman Jr
Washington
Hugh Burgess
Howard
Wagaman
John W. Wolfgang
Economic Matters
Oxon Hill Democrat
Maryland Senate approves aid for prescription drugs plan
The Maryland Senate backed a program to help elderly residents pay for expensive prescriptions with state funding. The bill, supported by Acting Gov. Blair Lee II, would charge enrollees only $1 per prescription while the state covers the rest. Officials project about 45,000 participants and $1.5 million in Year 1, rising to 67,000 and $2.4 million the next year. The measure targets those just over Medicaid income limits, with likely benefits to senior citizens, as House action looms.
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Annapolis
Neil Solomon
Solomon
Senate
House okays Fort Armistead prison site in Maryland debate
After a five day fight in Annapolis over prison location Substitutes to reuse East Baltimore land sparked name calling and political maneuvering. The House tentatively approved the bill with Fort Armistead as the preferred site though park and jail site alternatives were proposed and rejected.
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Annapolis
Baltimore
Blair Lee II
House of Delegates
Fort Armistead
House
Del
Paul Weisengolf
Lee
East Baltimore
Continental Can
South Baltimore Park
Weisengoff
South Baltimore Democrat
del. John W. Douglass
East
Undercover cop infiltrates Pagan gang in baron drug bust
PIKESVILLE Md AP at least 12 people tied to the Pagans motorcycle gang and associates were arrested in a narcotics ring with an estimated $18 million annual street value. Officer James Schroyer, the first to infiltrate the gang, bought cocaine PCP and meth during seven months with the Pagans, part of Operation Baron begun 15 months earlier. Drug seizures plus $8,000 in stolen motorcycles were recovered. the informer remains unidentified.
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Pikesville
Pagans
James Schroyer
Baltimore
The
Bill Clark
Schroyer
State
Clark
Alfred Hranicka
Schreyer
House Rejects Medicaid Abortions Funding for Poor Women
ANNAPOLIS AP Del Hattie Harrison urged continued state funding for abortions for poor women citing a fatal illicit abortion she witnessed in Baltimore. The House voted 72 62 to uphold the ban on Medicaid funding for abortions except in life threatening cases or rape. The vote stalls the $4.36 billion state budget as the Senate previously rejected the ban.
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Annapolis
Baltimore
Del
Hattie N. Harrison
House of Delegates
House
Baltimore Democrat
Harrison
Senate
Lucille Maurer
Montgomery County
del. V. Lanny Hardenhorn
Carroll County
Republican
Harold L. Bachman
John
Briscoe
Speaker
Anne Arundel County
Democrat
Bachman
Warchenhorn
Bert Booth
Lutherville
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Chesapeake Center
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Ways and Means
Chesapeake Life Insurance Co
Waterloo Row
Mt. Vernon Place
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Marvel Comics Group
Frederick, Md
Pagan Gang
Det
Torrey C. Brown
Datail
Wise Discount Center Health & Beauty Aids
Joyance Toothpaste Wilkinson
Polident Denture
Ben Gay
Contac 10
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BAYER
Bae Cartridge
Discount Center
North Market Street
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