Legislature launches new website

Home page of the legislature’s new website.

The Maryland General Assembly launched its new website Monday, modernizing its look and adding several new features. It also has a new URL web address, http://mgaleg.maryland.gov, but users of the old address will be redirected to the site.

Much of the redesign is simply a repackaging of older features, but it puts many of them directly on the homepage, rather than several clicks away, such as the audio of floor sessions, and video and audio of hearings. There is also more cross-linking of legislators and the legislation they have introduced.

Monday afternoon, the new site also posted all prefiled bills for the session, 66 bills in the Senate and 60 in the House. Buttons for those lists are also on the homepage, but the synopses and the full texts of the bills were not yet posted.


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