State Roundup: Legislature OKs $52.4 billion budget targeted at Covid recovery; wrangling continues over police reform
House of Delegates March 2021, MarylandReporter.com photo
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OKs $52.4B BUDGET: Danielle Gaines of Maryland Matters reports that the Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to a $52.4 billion budget that House Appropriations Chairwoman Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City) said is worthy of a moniker: “I call this The Recovery Act,” she said.
Only in 2021, perhaps, could approval of a massive state budget fattened by federal aid to help struggling businesses and families go by with barely a remark in the General Assembly. “It’s been like ‘small ball’ this year to pass the budget,” Senate President Bill Ferguson said as his chamber voted Friday to put the finishing touches on the $52 billion spending plan, up from a $49 billion proposal made in January, Pamela Wood and Bryn Stole report in the Sun.