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with a memorandum setting forth the monetary budget re-

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quired by the fiscal program, and if a similar program

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now exists, a comparative cost study of the proposed

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program with the program now in existence,. The sponsor of

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Resolution NO. 4 did appear before the Committee on Rules

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to explain his proposal, and in his appearance before

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the Committee, he modified it to propose that the fiscal note

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required under his resolution be only applicable to sub-

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stantive committee recommendations and not applicable to

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delegate proposals.

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The Committee believes that the resolution

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should be rejected, both in its original and amended form.

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Apparently a fiscal note procedure has been tried in

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recent years in the Maryland General Assembly, without

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any considerable success, but whether it was successful

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there or not, the Maryland General Assembly is a legis-

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lative body. It is not a Constitutional Convention. It

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seems to our Committee that it is of the essence of a

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successful Constitutional Convention that the flow of

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ideas emanating from the delegates not be arbitrarily

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restricted and cut off, and if you were to require a fiscal