Gov. Wes Moore (D) conducted his first bill signing Tuesday with two of his major priorities — accelerating the minimum wage a year earlier and providing tax credits to help low-income families.
The Fair Wage Act will accelerate the state’s current $13.25 per hour minimum wage to $15 starting in January versus the previous timetable of 2025.
The Family Prosperity Act permanently extends the state’s earned income tax to offer both refundable and nonrefundable credits against the state income tax. Also it expands the state’s child tax credit to taxpayers who have children aged 5 years and younger and whose federally adjusted annual gross income is $15,000 or less, effective June 1.
“Both of these bills will give [residents] just a little extra cushion to pay for diapers, to get food on the table, to get ahead on next month’s rent, to maybe take your family out to dinner,” Moore said inside the State House.
After he signed those bills into law, Moore stopped to give special recognition to Del. C.T. Wilson (D-Charles County).
Wilson sponsored House Bill 1 (The Child Victims Act of 2023), which lifts previous statutory time limits to allow survivors to sue their abusers, or organizations that harbored them, “at any time.”
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