Legislation to increase penalties for sex offenders and to provide communities more protection from them when they get out will be taken up in next week?s special session of the General Assembly, which was initially called to address huge increases in Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. rates, legislative leaders said Thursday.

Like the compromise on BGE rates that failed to win Senate passage at the 11th hour of the regular session April 10, a measure to closely monitor convicted sex offenders, increase reporting requirements and make them serve 25 years in prison for molesting youths died in the waning moments of 90-day session.

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