Week 10: Gas Tax Hearing, Death Penalty Vote Ahead In House

With exactly four weeks left in the 2013 Session of the Maryland General Assembly, work is expected to begin this week on the transportation funding bill that Governor Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders believe will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for road and bridge projects, as well as mass transit.

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on the bill on Friday afternoon.

The bill cuts the gasoline excise tax from 23.5-cents-a-gallon to 18.5-cents-a-gallon.

It also phases in a 4% tax on the wholesale price of gasoline.
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