MARYLAND SENATE

Maryland’s legislature is taking a serious look at statewide police reform following this past summer’s calls for social justice.

Maryland’s legislature is taking a serious look at statewide police reform following this past summer’s calls for social justice. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports.

The Maryland Senate has voted to extend a state tax credit for low-income workers to include immigrants, including those in the country illegally, as part of pandemic relief

Maryland officials are remembering the nation’s longest-serving state Senate president as a powerful politician who influenced policy in the state for nearly half a century

Thomas V. Mike Miller, a major force in Maryland politics for decades and the nation’s longest-serving state Senate president, has died, his family said. He was 78. A Democrat, he was first elected Maryland Senate president in 1987. He stepped down from the leadership position in 2019 as he battled Stage 4 prostate cancer and resigned from his Senate seat…

Maryland’s longtime Senate president has told lawmakers his health is “largely good today” as he updated them on his battle with Stage 4 prostate cancer.

The Maryland Senate has passed a minimum wage bill that would gradually bring the hourly rate to $15 an hour by 2028.The bill contains caveats for businesses in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, which already had higher minimums than the state’s.

A key Maryland lawmaker says measures to allow sports betting in the state are “not going to happen this year.”

A controversial bill that would allow people with six months to live to end their own lives with medical assistance passed the Maryland House on Thursday after a tough and emotional debate. If it passes the Senate and is ratified, the bill would allow those who have requested the option three times to access life-ending medication. News4’s Chris Gordon...

A measure to enable Maryland residents to select an unspecified gender on their driver’s licenses was approved in the state Senate.

A Maryland mother is fighting for a bill that would give people who don’t identify as male or female an “X” option on their driver’s licenses. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A Maryland Senate panel will hold a hearing next month into a Motor Vehicle Administration computer error that has resulted in about 18,761 people not being properly registered to vote in this week’s primary, a state senator said Sunday.

About 80,000 Maryland voters were not properly registered to vote in Tuesday’s primary election, officials announced on the eve of Election Day.

Maryland legislators ended their 2018 session without passing a high-profile bill to protect against child sex abuse in schools.

The Maryland Senate passed a measure to improve school safety Thursday, after making a significant change to accelerate when all public schools would be required to either have a school resource officer or demonstrate plans for adequate law enforcement coverage.

The Maryland Senate unanimously voted on Thursday to put school resource officers in all schools. News4’s Justin Finch has the story and tells where in our area there already are officers in schools.

Several bills are closer to becoming laws after they advanced in the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday.

The Maryland Senate has voted to end parental rights of rapists.

Maryland has been among leading states in electing women to political offices for decades, but the state could have its first all-male congressional delegation in more than 40 years unless at least one of two Republicans or a third-party candidate wins in November in the heavily Democratic state.

The Maryland Senate has voted to require a crew of at least two people on freight trains in the state.