Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert). Photo by Danielle E. Gaines.
The Maryland legislature’s 2021 session will look and feel unlike any session of the modern era.
Lawmakers will sit at desks that have clear plastic shields on three sides.
Half the members of the House of Delegates will sit in two converted delegation rooms in their office building that have been recast as the “Chamber Annex.”
The galleries will be empty — no constituents, no lobbyists — save for a select handful of mask-wearing journalists and the legislature’s executive protection detail.
