Maryland has a new sick leave law. Here’s how workers and business owners feel about it.
The measure became law on Feb. 11.
Over 100 UMD grad students and faculty testified in favor of collective bargaining bill
The state’s Senate Finance Committee heard the bill on Tuesday.
SGA backs no-excuse absentee voting and intern tax credit bills in Annapolis
The group is also supporting a bill to allow veterans at state universities priority class registration.
Maryland lawmakers propose bill banning tackle football before high school
The bill proposes restricting checking in lacrosse and hockey and heading in soccer until high school.
A UMD student wrote a bill mandating education on organ donation
Maryland’s public schools are not mandated to provide organ donation education.
A new Maryland bill would allow students to buy textbooks tax-free twice a year
The new bill seeks to create tax holidays for the next academic year.
Maryland House considers bill on hazing reporting and education
This would streamline hazing reporting processes.
A new collective bargaining bill excludes undergraduates. Many of them oppose it.
The bill would grant graduate assistants collective bargaining rights.
“We need this desperately”: grad teaching assistants could get collective bargaining rights
Ten University of Maryland graduate students testified in Annapolis on Tuesday in support of the bill.
A new bill will require Maryland’s public colleges to form hate bias prevention programs
The colleges would also have to submit reports on their progress to the state legislature.