ANNAPOLIS, Md. — During his weekly press availability, Senate President Bill Ferguson spoke in regards to the response to the menace made to the state home.
“Yesterday was definitely a really scary second for a lot of, a really intense second however a second the place our first responders did every part they have been purported to do. Kept everybody secure, adopted protocol and responded to a really intense scenario appropriately,” mentioned the Senate President.
The Senate President mentioned the state coincidentally signed a contract to get an alert system up and operating within the state home that will ship texts to folks on the campus within the occasion of an emergency.
“Which would enable for geofencing and textual content messaging alerts for anybody on campus. Which would have proactive messaging and the flexibility to ship messages in a second. Of course that contract was signed yesterday and is within the strategy of being constructed out,” mentioned Ferguson.
In the House Judiciary Committee, the group voted on a invoice to defend a decide’s private data and penalize individuals who purposefully share the knowledge on-line which handed unanimously
Across the road within the senate, the judicial proceedings committee unanimously handed a invoice to make it so foster care youngsters obtain baggage as a substitute of plastic baggage when being relocated.
“So we have heard from advocates within the foster care system that youngsters which have nonetheless been receiving trash baggage as they go residence to residence. That to me is stripping the dignity of those youngsters,” mentioned Delegate Joe Vogel, a democrat from Montgomery County.
The Senate President gave an replace on the medical support in dying invoice.
Saying the invoice did not have sufficient help to make it out of committee and is successfully accomplished this yr.
The legislators push ahead in the direction of crossover day, the ultimate day to get payments handed out of their authentic chamber.
