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A proposed Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention would cost $10 million to establish.

A handful of senators are struggling to support a bill that would allow a terminally-ill patient to ask for a prescription that would hasten their death with the help of a physician.

The anti-abortion movement is defending research that has been influential in the first major abortion case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court since it overturned Roe v. Wade.

Judicial Proceedings Committee chair says the bill would be ‘one or two’ votes shy of progressing to the Senate floor.

Some lawmakers worry the state is usurping local zoning authority.

Senate president has previously said he suspected the bill would receive a full Senate vote this year. Now he appears less sure.

The immigrant health bill passed the House last year but was bottled up in the Senate in the final days of the 2023 session.

If HB 728 becomes law, the bill would prompt the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to apply for a federal waiver in order to let undocumented migrants use the exchange.

Colleges, nonprofit organizations and agencies will receive money for suicide prevention, family counseling and other services.