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Information had supervisory authority over the Michigan
equivalent of the Director of Public Information.
The Committee felt that in view of the clear
statutory admonition found in Section 14 of the Enabling
Act that the creation of the Commission was, if not
necessary, most desirable. In that section, the General
Assembly said, "The Convention shall establish an infor-
mation service for the purpose of regularly communicating
to the people of Maryland information about all pertinent
issues and shall further provide for the publication of
the whole Constitution in such manner and at such times
after the Constitution is proposed by the Convention as
will allow the people of Maryland an opportunity to
become informed before voting on May 14, 1968."
I think the Committee unanimously was substan-
tially in favor of dealing with this matter by Committee.
There was some division in the Committee as to whether it
should be done through a new committee, or whether the
function of public information as proposed here be
vested in one of the existing procedural committees such
as, for example, the Committee on Rules, but a significant |
