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this Committee of the Whole, all of which
were being cleared up, Ave hope, by the
Committee on Style.
That being the case, if it had that effect,
it is something that ought to be cleared up,
and I would be perfectly willing to recom-
mend an amendment which would say "or
required by law by an enactment of the
General Assembly," or something to that
effect, in order to exclude that which would
occur by the rule-making power, which
would have the force of law.
THE CHAIRMAN : Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Once again, Mr.
Chairman, I call your attention and call
the attention of the Committee of the
Whole to the fact that these are the precise
words that were used, or came to the Com-
mittee as a result of the deliberations of
the Commission.
My Committee, which devised these
words, used the language, "as required by
law", precisely as you have defined it,
namely, that it required an act of the Gen-
eral Assembly.
THE CHAIRMAN: In view of the state-
ments by Delegate Sherbow, and in view of
the fact that the Committee on Style does
have under consideration and is making a
thorough review of all recommendations
with respect to the use of the words in the
law, I think we could leave the matter that
it is intended in section 6.05 that the ex-
pression "required by law" means "re-
quired by law enacted by the General
Assembly."
Would that satisfy von, Delegate
Willoner?
DELEGATE WILLONER: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Penniman,
can you make a note of that as one of the
added complications in your already com-
plicated studies of the expression "by law"?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: These refer-
ences to "Penniman" are really references
to a committee of eleven. I trust the other
members are also concerned, in addition to
the assistants we have here.
THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.
I take it, Delegate Willoner, you do not
desire to offer your amendment to section
6.05?
DELEGATE WILLONER: I do not de-
sire to offer any amendments.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any amend-
ment to section 6.06?
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The Chair hears none.
Are there any amendments to section
6.07?
Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: I would like to
distribute my amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: The pages will please
distribute Amendment C. This will be
Amendment No. 2.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 2
to Committee Recommendation SF-5, by
Delegates Hanson, Gallagher, Grumbacher,
Sollins, Fox, Ross, Bamberger, Maurer,
Marion, B. Miller, Burdette, Scanlan,
Sickles, and Morgan :
On page 3, lines 6 through 37 inclusive
of Committee Recommendation SF-5, strike
out all of section 6.07, Amendment of
Budget Bill, and all of section 6.08, Enact-
ment of Budget Bill, and insert in lieu
thereof the following:
Section 6.07. Amendment of Budget Bill.
The General Assembly may amend the
budget bill by increasing or decreasing the
appropriation for any item included in the
budget, by transferring funds among items
included in the budget or by including items
not in the budget bill as introduced. The
total appropriation included in the budget
bill as enacted by the General Assembly
shall not exceed the estimate of revenues
submitted by the governor. The General
Assembly shall not reduce or strike out any
appropriation of sufficient funds for the
timely payment of the interest upon and
installments of principal of all state in-
debtedness and appropriations required by
law for state support of public school sys-
tems. The compensation of a public officer
shall not be decreased during his term of
office.
Section 6.08. Enactment of Budget Bill.
The General Assembly shall remain in
session until the budget has been enacted.
If the budget bill shall not have been
passed by both houses of the General As-
sembly by the eightieth day of its regular
session, the General Assembly shall finally
enact no other legislation until the budget
bill has been enacted. Within ten days fol-
lowing passage of the budget bill by both
houses of the General Assembly, the gov-
ernor may reduce or strike out any appro-
priation contained in the budget bill, and
each reduction or veto of an appropriation
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