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By: Katie Misuraca Frederick County senators withdrew the Frederick’s CREST funding bill after the bill was about to receive unfavorable votes from Senate committees. The bill would of allowed spending for Frederick’s Center for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST) through 2020. Originally, the funding bill had been introduced after the planned regional higher education center initially received no funding in Gov. Hogan’s yearly budget for the state. However in early March, when Hogan delivered his State of the State address, he included some of the funding for the Fredrick CREST in a supplemental budget. The House and Senate committees retained the funding. The bill was also known as a bond bill. “A bond bill which means rather than being legislative – writing policy – it is local districts requesting funding for very important projects,” Dominique Marsalek, chief of staff to Senator Ronald Young, said. Each representative is limited to around three requests each because funding is limited. With a Republican governor, Larry Hogan, funding...