Legislative session should have been extended | READER COMMENTARY

Given the plethora of bills before the Maryland General Assembly this April — and the session being interrupted by threats of violence, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and a lunar eclipse of the sun — why did the legislative session have to be locked in to 90 days?  The Baltimore Sun reports the legislators working at “fever pitch” to enact or kill hundreds of bills on the last day (“Legislators busy during final session,” April 8).

I’d wager that some state senators and delegates did not get — or perhaps did not take — enough time to peruse every bill before them and relied on party comrades as to how to vote. If so, this opens the possibility of laws with mistakes, omissions or needing further refinement

This year, especially, why couldn’t Gov. Wes Moore have issued an executive order directing the legislature to continue for another three or five days? There would be some grousing, to be sure, but if bad weather necessitates days added to the school year, the same reasoning should apply to lawmaking. We all are subject to laws. Shouldn’t we take the time to get them right?

— Bruce Knauff, Towson

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