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Johns Hopkins Institutions



Legislative Hotline

2004 SESSION OF THE
MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY



Volume 12, Number 8 March 17, 2004


Here are some of the hot issues as the 2004 Legislative Session develops:

SENATE BUDGET ACTION

BILLS INTRODUCED
STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION

The Flush Tax

The House Environmental Matters Committee voted out HB 555 - The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration Fund, otherwise known as The Flush Tax, favorable with amendments. We have not seen the amendments and cannot state with certainty exactly what they do but it is our understanding that of the amendments introduced, two will significantly help Johns Hopkins Institutions.

The first amendment changes the formula by which a company calculates the monthly fee. Originally a company would be charged $2.50 per unit of water up to 2,000 units and $1.25 for 2,001 up to 8,000 units of water, with no charge for over 8,000 units. As amended a company is charged $2.50 for the first 1,000 units and $1.25 for 1,001 up to 8,000 units.

The second amendment that will greatly relieve the burden on Hopkins is an amendment that states a company that has multiple buildings on contiguous property shall be considered one entity and can be charge no more than $105,000 annually. This has the most impact on the JHU East Baltimore Campus where, as the bill was originally drafted, we were looking at over $300,000 annually. Cumulatively, as the bill was originally drafted, the Johns Hopkins Institutions would have paid roughly $500,000 annually in fees, these amendments save the Institutions close to $250,000.

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Senate Budget Actions

Health The Senate Budget and Taxation subcommittees completed their work this week as the full committee accepted the recommendations on the FY 2005 operating budget. The budget bill will be presented to the full Senate next week. Overall, the committee reduced the Governors budget by approximately $140 million. Below are the major provisions of the budget of interest to Johns Hopkins.

Sheila Higdon shigdon@jhmi.edu
Jim Kaufman jkaufma@jhmi.edu
Bret Schreiber bschreiber@jhu.edu
Heather Barthel hbarthe1@jhmi.edu
Suchita Lorick slorick@jhsph.edu
Tim Leiter tleiter@jhmi.edu
Mickey Geisler mgeisler@jhu.edu

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Legislative Hotline is a collaborative service of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine offices of Government Relations.

© 2004 The Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Maryland.
Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs.
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