Navigating the Maryland General Assembly Home Page

Unless you're a political junkie or work in State Government, you've probably have never come across the Maryland General Assembly website. The website http://www.mlis.state.md.us/ houses just about everything you'd ever want/have/or need to know about legislation during Maryland's 90-day session. 

Looking to find out who your representatives are?  There's a link for that.  Want to know more biographical information about them?  There's a link for that.   Interested in contacting a representative?   There's a link for that.  So, you get the point - lots of great information all in one spot, but there's actually a lot more to the site.

For example,  for the most up-to-date list of proposed legislation users can click on "Senate Legislation" or "House Legislation" under Daily Status Reports and find a list of every piece of legislation that has been introduced.  Once you find the bill you're interested in following, use the link "Bill Information and Status" to track the most-up-to-date information on the legislation, using "SB"= Senate Bill or "HB" = House Bill  in the search box and the bill number, for instance SB 45.   And if you need to follow several bills at once you can create a "Bill Profile" which allows the user to get the latest on the status of bills that they have a special interest in.  And finally, new this year, you can stream live bill hearings through the web right to your PC.

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