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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott vetoed a bill that would provide alternatives to traditional security deposits for tenants this week, potentially marking a swift turnaround for a proposal that the city council approved by a vote of 12-2 in April, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun.
The bill would have required some landlords to give tenants a choice to pay a security deposit in three monthly installments or opt for a security deposit “insurance” plan, in which they would pay nonrefundable monthly premiums to a bond company that would cover the upfront costs of damages but bill the tenant for them afterward, the report says. That could result in tenants paying more than the cost of a security deposit, and in the weeks since the bill’s passage, advocacy groups including the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Baltimore Teachers Union, CASA and Progressive Maryland, lobbied the mayor to veto the bill, according to the report.
State Roundup: Primary care physicians join effort to get more Marylanders vaccinated
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PRIMARY DOCS TARGET HARD-TO-REACH MARYLANDERS: The state’s primary care physicians are poised to take a more active role in administering coronavirus vaccines following a Friday morning announcement by the Maryland Department of Health that it has expanded a critical program aimed at vaccinating the state’s most hard-to-reach residents, reports Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter.
Gov. Larry Hogan Friday announced that the state of Maryland has opened up direct scheduling for mass vaccination sites. The state’s pre-registration system is closed, and all 831,872 pre-registrants have now been offered appointments, David Higgins reports for the Southern Maryland Chronicle.
Eager to better support state and local progressive candidates – and recruit many more – Progressive Maryland announced on Saturday the formation of a new political action committee called the New Era PAC.
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