Maryland lawmakers have been working over time to ensure that key bills receive a final vote in their respective chambers to keep them from falling to the wayside this session.
Monday’s deadline is known as “crossover day” in the General Assembly, meaning any bill that does not pass in its original chamber is either effectively dead or would have to go through the other chamber’s Rules Committee under a special procedure.
Almost all of the major anticipated bills passed the crossover hurdle, but some cross-filed bills — the same legislation filed concurrently in the House and Senate — were amended to create a version different than what was approved in the other chamber.
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