As the General Assembly prepares to adjourn at midnight Monday, lawmakers are moving forward bills that restrict concealed carry permits and tighten rules to keep guns away from kids. They’re also giving last-minute consideration to a proposal from Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to stiffen the penalty for illegally carrying a gun.

The measure moves prosecution authority for fatal police encounters from local state’s attorneys to the Maryland Office of the Attorney General. Gov. Wes Moore plans to sign the bill into law.

Even running from law enforcement, Roy McGrath sought to get the last word on his criminal case.

Paul Monteiro, who was national director of AmeriCorps VISTA, will be the first person to lead the new Department of Service and Civic Innovation that Gov. Wes Moore established on his first full day in office in January. Moore hopes Monteiro will be confirmed by the Maryland Senate before the end of the General Assembly session next Monday.

It’s spring the year before a Baltimore election — meaning consultants, elected officials and their potential challengers are quietly maneuvering to identify viable candidates.

A boisterous crowd gathered at the State House to celebrate significant progress this year — a new law will expand coverage for gender-affirming care for people with Medicaid insurance — but they noted that much more work is ahead in making the state safe and inclusive for trans Marylanders.

On Thursday, delegates and senators wouldn’t meet face-to-face to hash out differences on education spending. By Friday, they’d reached a deal.

As a condition of the 43-4 confirmation vote in the Maryland Senate, lawmakers will withhold a small portion of the budget for Butler’s office until he submits reports on his progress toward reform.

The Child Victims Act will lift all age limits and time limits for filing lawsuits against institutions such as churches and schools for enabling child sexual abuse. And it undoes a tricky legal maneuver called a “statute of repose” that some believe was snuck into a prior bill, which had the effect of actually insulating institutions from older legal claims.

Maryland lawmakers have hit an impasse in their budget negotiations over $2 million for a private school tuition program, the first sign of friction this year in the State House, which is entirely Democratic-run for the first time in eight years.

Correctional officers have alleged that the state only paid them for the hours they were scheduled to work, not the hours they actually worked. The U.S. Department of Labor has been investigating the claims.

Del. Brian Crosby, a Democrat from Southern Maryland, said that while the legislation won’t necessarily prevent problems at state facilities, it will enable officials to address them more quickly.

After a Senate committee voted for Lt. Col. Roland Butler as superintendent of the state police, his nomination will go before the full 47-member Senate.

After Lt. Col. Roland Butler fielded questions before a Senate committee, the chair said: “I couldn’t tell you tonight if he’d had the votes.”

Two of Maryland’s third parties have lost their official recognition due to poor showings at the ballot box.

Maryland State Police Lt. Col. Roland Butler has a confirmation hearing in the Maryland Senate, where he’ll hope to win enough support to be approved as the agency’s superintendent.

Political insiders, law enforcement and others fascinated with McGrath’s case quickly started reading the 52-page book, which author Ryan Cooper claims was written with cooperation from McGrath.

A book about former state official — and fugitive — Roy McGrath goes on sale Wednesday. Here’s what The Banner learned from previewing two chapters.

While all of the governor’s bills remain in play with three weeks to go in the annual legislative session, some of them have been altered or whittled down by lawmakers.

As the dust settled on a flurry of lawmaking, here’s where some key initiatives stood.