Youth is served: Youth charging, early childhood education bills among those signed into law

It was a good day for young people in Annapolis Tuesday, when newly enacted laws made it harder to charge juveniles as adults, added child care scholarship funds and created a commission to study treatment of Black youth at a former reform school.

By: William J. Ford

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: May 27, 2026

Words: 1,105

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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It was a good day for young people in Annapolis on Tuesday.

Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed bills into law that will make it harder to charge juveniles as adults, will expand funding for child care scholarships and will create a commission to study the treatment of Black youth in the 19th and 20th centuries at the old House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, just some of the 274 bills signed into law …

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