Maryland lawmakers pass budget a month late

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland residents earning more than $100,000 annually would pay higher taxes under a $35.5 billion budget plan lawmakers easily passed Wednesday afternoon.

The General Assembly returned to Annapolis on Monday for a special session more than a month after it failed to pass a complete budget package during the 90-day session. It took them only three days to pass a budget plan with tax increases and a shift of hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher pension costs to local jurisdictions over the next four years.