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either house of the General Assembly."
MR. QUILLEN: Amendment Number 15 to accompany
Minority Report KB-I(E), to Committee Recommendation No.
EB-I. By Delegates Boileau, Boyce, Fornos, Harris, Robey
and Sickles.
On pages 8 and 9 strike out all of Section 4.21
Appointment of Heads of Principal Departments and Chief
Administrative Officers and Section 4.22 Terms of Office and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
"'Section 4.20 Appointment and Removal.
The Governor shall, with the advice and consent
of the Senate, appoint each individual executive serving as
head of a principal department of the executive branch. Such
individual executives shall serve at the pleasure of the
Governor. The Governor shall also with the advice and
consent of the Senate appoint such individuals to fill
vacancies on the governing boards of institutions of higher
education and the public school system and on regulatory and
quasi-judicial agencies and commissions. All such
gubernatorial appointees shall have such occupational quali"
fications as may be prescribed by law."