Several bills addressing maintenance of effort (MOE) have been introduced this Session. Reforming the MOE waiver process is a Maryland Association of Counties' legislative initiative. House Bill 304 and Senate Bill 310 are identical bills…
The briefing scheduled for Tuesday in the House Ways and Means Committee has been canceled. There are no specific plans for a reschedule date at this time. MACo had planned…
MACo Associate Director Les Knapp testified in support of SB 476 with amendments before the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee on February 16. The bill, sponsored by Senator Ulysses Currie, would…
The main legislation addressing Maintenance of Effort -- one of MACo's legislative initiatives for 2010 -- was heard in both the Senate and House Committees yesterday. MACo has focused on…
The House Ways and Means Committee's Education Subcommittee met today, and granted preliminary approval to an amended version of HB 304, legislation seeking to alter the process for granting waivers…
The House sent HB 304 over to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee with modest changes from its original version and an amendment to sunset the waiver process provision as…
Yet another issue affecting county governments is likely to go "down to the wire" in the remaining days of the legislative session is the process for Maintenance of Effort Waivers…
As heavily detailed here on Conduit Street, MACo has been actively advocating for changes to the waiver system under the education "maintenance of effort" law. In the final days of…
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