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tary of Personnel in increasing the compensation shall be deemed
approved; but if the General Assembly in the proposed budget for the
next following fiscal year reduces the compensation of the position
or positions, from that so proposed, the action of the Secretary of
Personnel in granting the increase shall be held refuted, and the com-
pensation shall be fixed at the reduced and amended rate as of the
first day of the next following fiscal year.

16B.

(a)    No board, bureau, department, commission, or other agency
of the executive branch of the State government shall create any
permanent job or position of employment in addition to or in excess
of those specifically provided for in the budget or its supporting
documents, unless such permanent job or position is approved by
the Board of Public Works and the funds therefor provided from the
General Emergency Fund or from other special or federal funds
which are available by budget amendment for the support of the
agency's budget.

(b)    The approval of a new permanent job or position by the Board
of Public Works, under the provisions of this section, is of tempo-
rary effect only. The action of the Board in approving the new
permanent job or position shall be submitted by the Board to the
General Assembly, on the first day of the next following regular ses-
sion of the General Assembly. If the General Assembly takes no con-
trary action, the action of the Board of Public Works in approving
the new permanent job or position shall be deemed approved; but
if the General Assembly in the proposed budget for the next following
fiscal year deletes the new permanent job or position, the action of
the Board of Public Works in approving it shall be held negated,
and the new permanent job or position is abolished as of the first day
of the next following fiscal year; or if the General Assembly in the
proposed budget for the next ensuing fiscal year reduces the com-
pensation of the new permanent job or position, the job or position
shall have the reduced salary or compensation thus provided, effective
on the first day of the next following fiscal year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Vetoed by the Governor—May 28, 1971.

Passed Over Governor's Veto—January 13, 1972.

CHAPTER 4
(Senate Bill 259)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3-17(a)
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replace-
ment Volume and 1971 Supplement), title "Election Code," sub-
title "Registration of Voters—How and by Whom Conducted," to
change the time period required for a registered voter, who has
removed from the ward, election district or precinct in which he
was registered, to notify the local election board of such removal.