HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved February 23, 1979.

CHAPTER 3

(House Bill 151)

AN ACT concerning

General Assembly - Legislative Policy Committee

FOR the purpose of increasing the membership of the
Legislative Policy Committee; repealing the provision

that the Director of the State Department of

Legislative Reference is the secretary of the committee
providing that staff assistance to the committee shall
be provided by the State Department of Legislative

Reference; repealing provisions relating to

expenditures of the committee, relating generally to
the Legislative Policy Committee of the General
Assembly; correcting an error; and making this Act an
emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 40 - General Assembly

Section 27(a) and (b), 28(2), (4), and (7), 30, 37, and

38
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 40 - General Assembly

27.

(a) There is a Legislative Policy Committee composed
of [20] 26 members as follows:

(1) From the Senate of Maryland — The
President, THE PRESIDENT PRO TEM, THE FLOOR LEADER OF THE
MAJORITY PARTY, the chairman of the Budget and Taxation
Committee, the chairman of the Constitutional and Public Law