The Maryland legislature will adjourn as the clock hits midnight Monday, wrapping up a 90-day session defined by efforts to make the state a “safe haven for abortions,” to stand up a legal market for selling recreational cannabis and by attempting to strengthen gun control laws in the wake of consequential U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
Lawmakers introduced 2,284 bills, covering a wide scope that ranged from a measure to designate Maryland Rye as the official state spirit to legislation that grants the state attorney general’s office the authority to prosecute in police-involved death investigations.
As of Monday morning, only a fraction of those bills had reached the governor’s desk. Among the more than 1,800 that failed to gain passage this year were measures that would have given terminally ill patients the legal right to end their lives, penalized school districts that refused to follow state-approved curriculums and expanded health-care access to undocumented immigrants.
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Here are some of the bills that have passed or are expected to hit the governor’s desk before lawmakers leave Annapolis:
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