BALTIMORE — Gov. Larry Hogan, finalizing the Maryland legislative session for the year, allowed nearly 300 bills to go into effect without his signature while vetoing 18 others Friday — killing bills that included efforts to speed up mass transit projects in Baltimore and to improve voting and ballot-counting as early as the upcoming July 19 primary.
The Republican governor faced a deadline this week to make his decision on the remaining bills the General Assembly passed in its 2022 session.
He had signed and vetoed hundreds of other pieces of legislation since the session ended April 12, and many of the year’s landmark new laws already had been finalized.
