Wes Moore

Signed an executive order on September 3, 2026 making the State of Maryland a recovery-friendly workplace. It requires state agencies to train staff about substance use disorders, treatment and how to respond to an overdose, and it changes state disciplinary policy so that an employee whose work is affected by substance use is first offered help through the Employee Assistance Programme before any punishment.

September 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.maryland.gov

Signed the Family Prosperity Act of 2023, which made the state Earned Income Tax Credit permanent and expanded the Child Tax Credit for low-income families.

April 11, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: thedailyrecord.com

Signed the Second Look Act (HB 853), which lets some people in prison ask a court to review and reduce a long sentence.

April 22, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: sentencingproject.org

Signed an executive order pardoning about 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis possession and paraphernalia convictions, the largest such pardon by any state at the time.

June 17, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: npr.org

Signed the SERVE Act of 2023, which created a state-paid service year option for high school graduates and a new Department of Service and Civic Innovation.

April 24, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.maryland.gov

Signed the Gun Safety Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 1), which tightened the rules on who may carry a handgun in Maryland and barred guns from public places including schools, bars, restaurants, performance venues and polling places.

May 16, 2023Supports Gun Control

Source: baltimoresun.com

Signed the Family Prosperity Act of 2023, which made the state Earned Income Tax Credit permanent and expanded the Child Tax Credit for low-income families.

April 11, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: thedailyrecord.com

Set out his conditions for data centres in Maryland at a candidates' forum on August 15, 2026: any data centre should bring its own energy, pay for its own infrastructure improvements, hire local union labour and meet environmental rules, and local officials should keep the power to refuse one. He said what happened in Virginia, which has the world's largest concentration of data centres, will not happen in Maryland.

August 15, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: marylandmatters.org

Signed an executive order directing state agencies to push utility regulators for lower bills, speed grid upgrades, and pre-clear sites for new energy projects.

December 19, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: governor.maryland.gov

Signed an executive order directing state agencies to push utility regulators for lower bills, speed grid upgrades, and pre-clear sites for new energy projects.

December 19, 2025

Source: governor.maryland.gov

Had his veto of the bill creating a Maryland Reparations Commission overturned when the General Assembly voted to override it, 31-14 in the Senate and 93-35 in the House.

December 16, 2025

Source: wypr.org

Received the endorsement of the Maryland State Education Association for re-election. Delegates representing the union's 76,000 members voted to back him at their autumn representative assembly on October 17 and 18, 2025.

October 18, 2025

Source: marylandeducators.org

Acknowledged that a White House fellowship application he filed in 2006 wrongly listed a Bronze Star he had not received, and said he regretted not correcting it.

August 30, 2024

Source: fox5dc.com