Safety and Correctional Services may submit the revised plan as a part of the budget
request for the State Use Industries for each fiscal year. If approved as part of the
budget, the revised incentive-based compensation plan continues in effect until
changed by law.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Revisor's Notes,
Special Revisor's Notes, General Revisor's Notes, and catchlines contained in this Act
are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this Act.

SECTION 11. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That nothing in this Act
affects the term of office of an appointed or elected member of any commission, office,
department, agency, or other unit. An individual who is a member of a unit on the
effective date of this Act shall remain a member for the balance of the term to which
appointed or elected, unless the member sooner dies, resigns, or is removed under
provisions of law.

SECTION 12. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as expressly
provided to the contrary in this Act, any transaction or employment status affected by
or flowing from any change of nomenclature or any statute amended, repealed, or
transferred by this Act and validly entered into or existing before the effective date of
this Act and every right, duty, or interest flowing from a statute amended, repealed,
or transferred by this Act remains valid after the effective date of this Act and may be
terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required or allowed by any
statute amended, repealed, or transferred by this Act as though the repeal,
amendment, or transfer had not occurred. If a change in nomenclature involves a
change in name or designation of any State unit, the successor unit shall be
considered in all respects as having the powers and obligations granted the former
unit.

SECTION 13. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the continuity of every
commission, office, department, agency, or other unit is retained. The personnel,
records, files, furniture, fixtures, and other properties and all appropriations, credits,
assets, liabilities, and obligations of each retained unit are continued as the
personnel, records, files, furniture, fixtures, properties, appropriations, credits,
assets, liabilities, and obligations of the unit under the laws enacted by this Act.

SECTION 14. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as expressly
provided to the contrary in this Act, any person licensed, registered, certified, or
issued a permit or certificate by any commission, office, department, agency, or other
unit established or continued by any statute amended, repealed, or transferred by
this Act is considered for all purposes to be licensed, registered, certified, or issued a
permit or certificate by the appropriate unit continued under this Act for the duration
of the term for which the license, registration, certification, or permit was issued, and
may renew that authorization in accordance with the appropriate renewal provisions
of this Act.

SECTION 15. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, subject to the approval
of the Executive Director of the Department of Legislative Services, the publishers of
the Annotated Code of Maryland shall propose the correction of cross-references that
are rendered incorrect by this Act.