Maryland Senate Bill 293 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 12-1)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-21 - Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Providing that, beginning in fiscal year 2020, any appropriation that increases by operation of law is required to have its mandated level of spending increased by the lesser of the amount of the existing formula calculation or 1% less than the amount of General Fund revenue growth in a certain report submitted by the Board of Revenue Estimates; providing that the General Assembly may not enact certain legislation that creates a certain mandated level of funding except under certain circumstances; etc.

Commonsense Spending Act of 2018

Sen. Thomas Miller [D]	Sen. Gail Bates [R]	Sen. Bob Cassilly [R]	Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]
Sen. George Edwards [R]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. Michael Hough [R]	Sen. J.B. Jennings [R]
Sen. Justin Ready [R]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]	Sen. Johnny Salling [R]	Sen. Andrew Serafini [R]
Sen. Bryan Simonaire [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-21	Senate	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2018-01-22	Senate	First Reading Budget and Taxation

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0293?ys=2018rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0293f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/fnotes/bil_0003/sb0293.pdf