Post by Logan on Apr 10, 2016 2:40:11 GMT -6
The Maryland Senate voted Friday to override two vetoes by Gov. Larry Hogan, enacting laws changing the makeup of the Anne Arundel County School Board Nominating Commission and requiring the state to rank transportation projects vying for funding.
The vetoes had been overriden in the House of Delegates on Thursday.
Hogan and Republicans have panned both pieces of legislation as partisan maneuvers to sap the powers of the governor's office. Democrats say both changes improve systems now in place.
Senators voted 31-15 to override the veto of the Anne Arundel bill, which removes the governor's five appointees to the commission, replacing them with representatives from parent and minority groups, including the Anne Arundel County Council of Parent Teacher Associations, the county's NAACP branch, CASA de Maryland and a special education advisory committee.
The legislation also adds a second business seat that will rotate among the county's regional chambers of commerce. It requires the nominating commission to run background checks on school board candidates and restores a requirement that nominees be approved by a supermajority of eight of the group's 13 members.
Read more: www.capitalgazette.com/blogs/under_the_dome/ph-ac-cn-senate-veto-overrides-0409-20160408-story.html
The vetoes had been overriden in the House of Delegates on Thursday.
Hogan and Republicans have panned both pieces of legislation as partisan maneuvers to sap the powers of the governor's office. Democrats say both changes improve systems now in place.
Senators voted 31-15 to override the veto of the Anne Arundel bill, which removes the governor's five appointees to the commission, replacing them with representatives from parent and minority groups, including the Anne Arundel County Council of Parent Teacher Associations, the county's NAACP branch, CASA de Maryland and a special education advisory committee.
The legislation also adds a second business seat that will rotate among the county's regional chambers of commerce. It requires the nominating commission to run background checks on school board candidates and restores a requirement that nominees be approved by a supermajority of eight of the group's 13 members.
Read more: www.capitalgazette.com/blogs/under_the_dome/ph-ac-cn-senate-veto-overrides-0409-20160408-story.html