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Koss, you do not concur in the change?

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DELEGATE KOSS: I seem to have been misled.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gleason.

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DELEGATE GLEASON: Madam Chairman, I recall

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your conversation with Delegate Della before, but would you

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enlighten me again as to the necessity for having a state

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agency instead of just providing that the General Assembly

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shall establish for the supervision and uniform administra-

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tion of laws enacted pursuant to this section? Why wouldn't

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you leave with the General Assembly the discretion whether

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to give this duty to the Attorney General's office or some

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other office? Why is the state agency in the Constitution

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to do this job?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss?

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DELEGATE KOSS: Delegate Gleason, I wonder if

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your quarrel is with the use of the word "state agency"?

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THE PRESIDENT: I think his point is that by

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requiring a state agency you require the creation of some

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agency, and not perhaps authorize the General Assembly

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to provide that the Attorney General, the official, could

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provide for uniform interpretation. Is that your point,