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 Maryland General Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland.
Each senator or delegate must be a citizen of Maryland and a resident for at least one year preceding his or her election.
However, members of the General Assembly are not term limited.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland_General_Assembly   (548 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Maryland General Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Attorney General is the chief law officer of the Crown The Crown is a term which is used to separate the government authority and property of the state in a kingdom from any personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch.
The Attorney General for England and Wales Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known as the Attorney General, is the chief legal adviser of the Crown in England and Wales.
The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maryland-General-Assembly   (581 words)

  
 Maryland General Assembly Election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The next election to chose members of the Maryland General Assembly is scheduled to occur on Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Maryland Republicans have targeted Speaker of the House Michael E. Busch for defeat due to his stand against the agenda of Governor Bob Ehrlich.
Although Dwyer campaigned for the Constitution Party nominee in the Presidential race, it was inconsequential and his conservative credentials are unquestioned.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland_General_Assembly_Election,_2006   (3062 words)

  
 Maryland Attorney General
In 1999, the Maryland General Assembly enacted the Escrow Act, Chapter 169 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1999, as amended by Chapter 141 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2001.
NPMs that sold cigarettes or "roll-your-own" tobacco in Maryland during 2002 and 2003 were required to submit a 2002 Certificate of Compliance or 2003 Certificate of Compliance to the Attorney General by April 15, 2003.
NPMs that sold cigarettes or "roll-your-own" tobacco in Maryland during 2004 are required to submit a 2004 Certificate of Compliance to the Attorney General by April 15, 2005.
www.oag.state.md.us /Tobacco/escrow_act.htm   (290 words)

  
 Maryland General Assembly considers pension changes - Silver Chips Online
The Maryland General Assembly is considering changing the Teacher Pension System to alleviate the budget gap, a move that could result in an extra $80 million expenditure for Montgomery County.
Senior Policy Analyst to the General Assembly Lesley Knapp said the plan, “requires that counties pick up the parts of the pension system," and that “the state will still oversee [the pension system]" after it is transferred.
Maryland is currently ranked as the easiest state in the entire country for corporations to cheat on their taxes.
silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=3702   (844 words)

  
 President Mote's Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly, University of Maryland
I appreciate this opportunity to testify on behalf of the University of Maryland, College Park on biotechnology, a topic that is of major importance to the future of the State and the University.
Basic research, collaboration, partnerships, growth for the Maryland economy: this is the pathway for increasing Maryland's leadership role in the bioscience enterprise.
The University of Maryland, College Park is interested in a range of collaborations, including, for example, participating in a center for ethnobotany under consideration at UMBI and the prospective Sloan Biotechnology Center.
www.inform.umd.edu /CampusInfo/Departments/PRES/testimony/2001/testimonybiosci.html   (2195 words)

  
 Baltimore County Law Library Services
Maryland Register: The Maryland Register is an official publication of the State of Maryland and is published every two weeks.
Maryland Manual: This continuously updated guide to the Maryland government shows the organizational structure of the state government.
Maryland State Archives: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ has links to the Maryland Manual and historical records and information which may be of interest to the legal researcher.
www.co.ba.md.us /Agencies/circuit/library/md_legal_resources.html   (941 words)

  
 Tax Executive, The: Maryland procurement regulations on use of affiliates to avoid taxation on income from state ...
The procurement regulations, which were issued by the Maryland Board of Public Works, would require State contractors to disclaim a deduction for royalties and similar payments to affiliated companies unless those affiliated companies reported those payments as income on a Maryland tax return.
TEI is dedicated to promoting the uniform, equitable, and nondiscriminatory enforcement of the tax laws throughout the Nation, to reducing the costs and burdens of administration and compliance to the benefit of both the government and taxpayers, and to vindicating the Commerce Clause and other constitutional rights of business taxpayers.
Maryland) should remain vested in the General Assembly -- we submit it should be the Comptroller rather than the Board of Public Works who crafts any change.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m6552/is_n6_49/ai_20335626   (1229 words)

  
 Maryland Research Guide
Maryland also has many executive branch agencies which are not part of any of the principal departments; these are called independent agencies.
Maryland Attorney General [http://www.oag.state.md.us/]: The Attorney General is Maryland's chief legal officer.
Maryland Association of Counties [http://www.mdcounties.org/] is a "nonprofit organization representing Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /states/maryland-in-depth.cfm   (5608 words)

  
 Maryland General Assembly - Legislative Process
If the General Assembly has not acted upon the budget bill seven days before the expiration of a regular session, the Governor by proclamation may extend the session for action to be taken on the bill.
Examples include salary recommendations from the General Assembly Compensation Commission, the Governor's Salary Commission, and the Judicial Compensation Commission; reapportionment plans for General Assembly membership required after every decennial census; and amendments to the U.S. Constitution submitted for ratification.
The General Assembly may not override a veto during the first year of a new legislative term since the bill would have been passed by the previous legislature (Const., Art.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/mdmanual/07leg/html/proc.html   (2178 words)

  
 The Maryland General Assembly -- 418th Session -- What’s Happening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
If the General Assembly does not pass the legislation to make the proposed cuts, the only choice of the legislature would be to propose other cuts.
Responding to issues surrounding Maryland’s election laws, bill have been read across the desks that require the Diebold election machines, which debuted across the State in 2004, to be equipped with ballot verification capability both for individual votes and for recounts (HB 80, HB 107, SB 9, SB 63).
The General Assembly has responded to the conflicts prior to the election between the State Board of Elections and the State Election Administer with proposed legislation that would drastically reduce the Governor’s powers over elections.
www.bcpl.net /~lwv/mont/fsmar2005generalassembly.html   (3584 words)

  
 Pending Maryland Estate Tax Legislation -MSBA Bar Bulletin - March 2005
If the Maryland General Assembly had not acted, then the Maryland estate tax would have been reduced gradually until it was eliminated in 2005.
To prevent this reduction in state tax revenue, the General Assembly amended the Maryland estate tax as part of the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2002 (enacted as Senate Bill 323 and signed into law by the governor as Chapter 440).
Until the passage of this legislation, the exemption from the Maryland estate tax was the same as the exemption from the federal estate tax.
www.msba.org /departments/commpubl/publications/bar_bult/2005/March05/taxlegislation.htm   (891 words)

  
 Maryland Governor ~ Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. ~ 2003 State of the State Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Maryland General Assembly represents everything that a citizen legislature should be: diverse, collegial, effective, informed and vigilant.
In the field of medical research, Maryland is an international leader, as demonstrated by the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Systems, and National Institutes of Health.
According to FBI statistics, Maryland continues to be one of the most violent states in the nation.
www.governor.maryland.gov /speeches/sots2003WEB.html   (3319 words)

  
 Chesapeake Bay Journal: Environmental issues in the 1998 Maryland General Assembly - May 1998
While much of the attention in Maryland was focused on pfiesteria and nutrient management legislation, the General Assembly also adopted a three-part bill to improve fisheries management, including limited entry to commercial fisheries, apprenticeship to the commercial fisheries, and a noncommercial crabbing license.
The trust is a private, nonprofit, grant-making foundation, established in 1985, that awards grants for projects to schools, nonprofit organizations, community associations and public agencies that contribute to restoration of the Bay.
The bill would have increased the maximum penalties in Maryland for knowingly violating provisions of law dealing with water pollution control, drinking water, and tidal and nontidal wetlands.
www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=1398   (642 words)

  
 Maryland has established a subcommittee under the General Assembly to represent high-tech business
The group's first objective is to take inventory of the state's high-tech community, which will consist of looking at where small and medium-sized high-tech companies are located within the counties, how many employees they have, annual revenues and the value of their industries.
Richard Hayman, president of Hayman Systems, a systems integrator in Laurel, Md., and one of the winners of Maryland's Entrepreneur of the Year awards, says the real problem is that the state of Maryland does not appear unified.
Maryland's high-tech firms account for 41.6 percent of 2,331 high-tech firms located in the greater Washington area.
www.washingtontechnology.com /news/11_8/news/10069-1.html   (693 words)

  
 OFII: Testimony of Todd Malan before the Maryland General Assembly
OFII is a trade association representing the interests of the United States subsidiaries of companies based abroad, including many of the largest companies in Maryland.
Experience has shown that unilateral U.S. sanctions are an ineffective means of achieving their intended goal, and that they generally cause more harm to U.S. interests than to the countries they target.
Many religious and humanitarian groups, especially those that are actually operating in the countries in question, believe that economic engagement has opened the door for their presence and made local people more receptive to their message.
www.ofii.org /resources/legis/let980318.cfm   (1089 words)

  
 New: Announcement - Maryland task force studies cult effects
The 1998 Maryland General Assembly passed a resolution (HJ 22) mandating the creation of a "Task Force to Study the Effects of Cult Activities on Public Senior Higher Education Institutions."
The University System office – which is to provide staffing for the Task Force – reports that substantial progress has been made in completing the appointments to the Task Force and in scheduling their first meeting, anticipated to be next month.
The Task Force is to issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by September 30, 1999.
www.csj.org /announce/annoucement_archives/1999/legislative.htm   (184 words)

  
 Legal Library - Legislative Wrap Up: Real Estate in the 2005 Maryland General Assembly
The 2005 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 11th.
The bill defines “latent defects” as material defects in the real property or an improvement that the purchaser would not reasonably be expected to observe and would pose a direct threat to the health or safety of the purchaser or an occupant.
As a proposed constitutional amendment, this bill required an approval by three-fifths of the elected membership, is not subject to gubernatorial approval or veto, and must be submitted to the voters at the next general election in November 2006.
www.stuartkaplow.com /library3.cfm?article_id=116   (2905 words)

  
 Neal Statement on UCITA before the Maryland General Assembly's Joint Meeting of the Senate Finance Committee and the ...
I am testifying today on behalf of the Maryland Library Association and the nation's major library associations: the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association.
The proponents of UCITA are hoping that Maryland and other states will enact a uniform set of rules for commercial transactions involving electronic information.
Unfortunately, as I explain below, if the Maryland UCITA is enacted, research and educational institutions would see a substantial rise in their cost of access to information, which is their life-blood.
www.arl.org /info/frn/copy/nealstmt.html   (986 words)

  
 President Mote's Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly, University of Maryland
The expertise at the University falls into four categories: 1) security and policy implications; 2) technical methods for detection or intervention of terrorists; 3) studies of the basic mechanisms of toxins, pathogens, and diseases that might be used as bioweapons; and 4) rapid information dissemination and education to appropriate personnel.
Maryland has an outstanding collection of security experts who are routinely called upon for their assessment of current events.
Several of Maryland's outstanding researchers are engaged in basic research that provides insight into the mechanisms and effects of toxins and pathogens.
www.inform.umd.edu /CampusInfo/Departments/PRES/testimony/addendum101701.html   (2289 words)

  
 MSTA: General Assembly
The 2005 session of the General Assembly saw the passage of legislation (HB 1347/SB623) that reconstitutes the rehired retiree program that expired in 2004.
The restructured program also requires reporting to the MSDE and the general assembly on the usage, placement, and compensation of all rehired retirees under this program.
The legislation also allows local school systems the flexibility to hire a certain number of persons under this program, depending on the size of the school system and not to exceed a maximum of 10, that may teach any subject as long as they do so at a school prescribed under this law.
www.mstanea.org /political/retired.php   (491 words)

  
 One Less Car: 2005 Bicycle & Pedestrian Legislation Maryland General Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Maryland's smog levels are among the worst in the country.
HB 805 allows a subtraction modification under the Maryland individual income tax equal to 10 cents per mile traveled to and from an individual's place of employment by bicycle or on foot and limits the subtraction to $100 for any taxable year.
During the 2005 General Assembly session, legislators will decide whether to approve the Governor's proposal to commit Maryland to $1 billion in GARVEE bonds to be repaid with future federal funds.
www.onelesscar.org /TopLevelDi/bills.php   (1275 words)

  
 President's Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly - UMUC
UMUC has been from the onset and will continue to be Maryland’s lead institution in distance education.
Three of the State’s school systems are already using online courses with students, and all 24 of the systems have indicated an interest in and a need for this kind of instruction.
Maryland has not hesitated to fund other universities in research areas.
www.umuc.edu /president/testimony/2002/position.html   (1065 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Maryland General Assembly Passes Landmark Clean Energy Bill"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Monday night to landmark legislation that will bring significant amounts of renewable energy -- like wind and geothermal power -- into the state's electricity grid beginning just two years from now.
The bill requires that 7.5 percent of the state's electricity come from renewable sources by 2014, and adds Maryland to the list of 14 other states that have passed similar legislation.
The bill is expected to incentivize the construction of several large commercial wind farms in Western Maryland as soon as next year.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=28699   (339 words)

  
 Maryland
Amid an advertising campaign by Maryland teachers unions to call attention to what it says are worst-in-the-nation pensions, lawmakers of both parties promised yesterday to try to improve public retiree benefits this year.
Maryland passed a similar bill last week, effectively demanding that Wal-Mart increase its health-care benefits.
Attorneys general from Arizona, 48 other states and the District of Columbia announced a $325 million settlement Monday with Ameriquest, the country's largest subprime lender.
www.stateline.org /live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=97&languageId=1&contentId=-1   (1127 words)

  
 AR15.COM :: Forums :: Topic :: Your Maryland General Assembly
Maryland is so liberal it makes me sick and wish I had never bought a house there.
I guess the real issue is will the Army finally move me away from Maryland after almost five years there I still can't believe how nuts some of these folks are.
Too bad we don't have more like Roscoe Bartlett in the rest of Maryland it would be a nice state.
www.ar15.com /forums/topic.html?b=8&f=29&t=195805   (228 words)

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