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responsibility to be placed, if you want the General
Assembly to know that it is going to be scrutinized and
viewed publicly, that this is the way to do it. I think it
is important, and it makes no sense at all to require Yea
and Nay vote on the floor when you kill a bill and not to
require it in Committee. The effect is exactly the same
and I think this is important enought in this kind of an
operation, with intelligent people, and with the staff that
they are going to have, to see to it that we are able to
give the public the information it deserves.
I would urge you to defeat the amendment,
THE CHAIRMAN: Any other Delegate desire to
speak in favor of the amendment?
Delegate Hardwick.
DELEGATE HARDWICK: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Committee, I regret that the argument is
in terms of the old versus the new. If we vote to keep
this sentence in 3.17, we are voting to have mandatory
substantial compliance, whatever that is, and I am very much
in favor of the concept. It simply is not a proper
provision for this State Constitution. It is a proper