1997 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
General Assembly, 411th session,
Annapolis, Maryland,
January 8 - April 7, 1997 |
|
BILLS |
|---|
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
915 |
354 |
| House |
1,470 |
537 |
| Total |
2,385 |
891 |
| |
Enacted |
Vetoed |
| Senate |
283 |
71 |
| House |
476 |
61 |
| Total |
759 |
132 |
| JOINT RESOLUTIONS |
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
17 |
3 |
| House |
28 |
5 |
| Total |
45 |
8 |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
|
| |
Introduced |
Passed |
| Senate |
4 |
0 |
| House |
14 |
0 |
| Total |
18 |
0 |
|
|
| Submitted to referendum
| 0 |
| VETOES |
| Overridden
| 0 |
|---|
| BUDGET |
| Operating Budget
| $15,443,465,132 |
| State Debt
| $593,773,000 |
| General Construction Loan
| $414,993,000 |
| School Construction Loan
| $147,400,000 |
| Bonds
| $31,380,000 |
1997 LEGISLATIVE SESSION - SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Alcoholic beverages (microbrewery expansion); Baltimore City schools; brownfields (cleanup of old industrial sites); budgets; campaign financing; child-support enforcement; college tuition-savings program; crimes (warrantless arrests); dairy industry; domestic violence (protective orders); family law (abuse as grounds for divorce); gambling; health (managed care); health (public) - extension of needle exchange program in Baltimore City; health insurance (mandated benefits; Thrive by Three for women and children in low- to moderate-income households); homicide (spousal adultery as mitigating circumstance); HOPE Scholarship Program; horse-racing industry assistance; incinerators in Baltimore City; income tax reduction; job-creation income-tax credits; lead paint; lobbying reform; mortgage-lender regulatory reform; motor vehicles (seat belt violation as primary action; traffic signal violations; use of headlights in rain); pesticides (parental notification of use in schools); property tax - "truth in taxation"; right to farm; Rural Legacy; sales tax; Smart Growth; telecommunications; tobacco tax; tourism funding; Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - dynamometer test; video sales - local tax; welfare innovation.
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