SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       1701

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Com-
mittee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters is requested to consider the
possibility of establishing a more effective system for the distribu-
tion and mailing to the members of the General Assembly of the
bulletins, reports, periodicals, catalogs and other matter of State
agencies and departments, and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee is requested to complete its report
prior to the convening of the 1968 General Assembly, and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this Resolution are sent to the Chairman
of the Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters and to the Director
of the Fiscal Research Bureau.

Approved May 4, 1967.

No. 13
(Senate Joint Resolution 21)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Legislative Council to study
the rate setting procedures of the State Insurance Department with
particular respect to rates for motor vehicle liability under the
assigned risk plan.

The General Assembly of Maryland requests the Legislative Council
acting through either a standing committee or a special committee
to study the rate making procedures of the State Insurance Depart-
ment with particular respect to the rates for motor vehicle liability
insurance under the assigned risk plan.

Members of the General Assembly are informed there may be
serious inequities in the rates charged to persons who are included
within the assigned risk plan.

For example, it is understood by members of the General Assembly
that persons who must secure insurance under the assigned risk
plan are arbitrarily assigned to one insurance carrier and, in effect,
prohibited from seeking better rates with another carrier.

Members of the General Assembly also have understood that the
criteria for placing persons under the assigned risk plan may be
unfair in some instances.

These situations, plus the exorbitantly high rates charged under
the assigned risk plan, call for an intensive legislative investigation;
now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Legisla-
tive Council is requested to assign to one of its standing committees,
or to a special committee, the task of investigating rate making pro-
cedures within the State Insurance Department with particular
emphasis upon the entire operation and the setting of rates under the
assigned risk plan; and be it further