A dereliction of duty in the Senate

A dereliction of duty in the Senate

Renter advocates gather in Annapolis to call on lawmakers to pass Good Cause Eviction legislation in February, but the bill never got out of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee. (File photo by Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters).In what many are calling an astonishing dereliction of duty, the Maryland Senate’s Judicial Proceeding Committee (JPR) failed to move “Good-Cause” eviction legislation forward. Despite unprecedented statewide suppo…