1996 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
General Assembly, 410th session,
Annapolis, Maryland,
January 10 - April 8, 1996 |
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BILLS |
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
806 |
283 |
| House |
1,463 |
513 |
| Total |
2,269 |
796 |
| |
Enacted |
Vetoed |
| Senate |
227 |
56 |
| House |
465 |
48 |
| Total |
692 |
104 |
| JOINT RESOLUTIONS |
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
10 |
3 |
| House |
20 |
4 |
| Total |
30 |
7 |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
|
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
10 |
3 |
| House |
14 |
1 |
| Total |
24 |
4 |
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| Submitted to referendum
| 4 |
| VETOES |
| Overridden
| 0 |
| BUDGET |
| Operating Budget
| $14,634,554,408 |
| State Debt
| $ 539,088,000 |
| General Construction Loan
| $373,351,000 |
| School Construction Loan
| $137,000,000 |
| Bonds
| $28,737,000 |
1996 LEGISLATIVE SESSION - SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Automobile insurance reform; brownfields (cleanup of old industrial sites); crime (victims' rights); economic development (Sunny Day Fund); education (disruptive students); educational funding - accountability and maintenance of effort; executive branch reorganization (Department of Personnel abolished; Department of Budget and Management formed); football stadiums (Camden Yards and Redskins); gambling; gun control; health insurance (mandatory coverage to lengthen postpartum hospitalization); health maintenance organizations (HMOs) provider communication-Health Care Provider and Payor Act; job-creation tax credit; Medicaid reform; personnel (State Personnel Management System Reform Act); sentencing (Maryland Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy); spousal murder (adultery as mitigating factor); State employees early retirement/buy-out plan; taxes on snacks; tourism development; transportation funding; welfare reform; wildlands preservation.
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