INTERSTATE COOPERATION

MARYLAND COOPERATION COMMISSION

Honorary Members:

Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor
George W. Della, President of the Senate
John C. Luber, Speaker of the House of Delegates

Governor's Committee:

Chairman: John R. Reeves, Secretary of State
Edward D. E. Rollins, Attorney General
James G. Rennie, Director, Department of Budget and
Procurement

James C. Alban, Chairman, Maryland State Planning
Commission

Joseph O'C. McCusker, Chief Deputy Comptroller
Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Cooperation:
Chairman: Francis X. Dippel

John Grason Turnbull, Stanford Hoff, Jacob R. Rams-
burg, Bernard S. Melnicove

House Committee on Intergovernmental Cooperation:
Chairman: Albert L. Sklar

Henry J. Fowler, Charles A. Thompson, Charles M. See,
Henry H. Hanna, Jr.

The Maryland Cooperation Commission consists of three separate
and distinct Committees, which collectively act as the Commission; in
addition there are three honorary, ex-officio, non-voting members.
The honorary members are the Governor, the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Delegates. The three Committees
are (1) The Governor's Committee, which consists of three ex-officio
members, the Attorney General, the Director of the Department of
Budget and Procurement, and the Chairman of the Maryland State
Planning Commission; and two other administrative officials appoint-
ed by the Governor; (2) The Senate Committee, and (3) The House
Committee, both of which are regular standing committees of the two
branches of the General Assembly.

It is the function of this Commission to carry forward the partici-
pation of the State as a member of the Council of State Governments,
to encourage and assist the legislative, executive, administrative and
judicial officials and employees of this State to develop and maintain
friendly contact with officials and employees of the other States, of
the Federal government and of local units of government; to en-
deavor to advance cooperation between this State and other units of
government, whenever it seems advisable, formulating proposals
for, and facilitating the adoption of compacts, the enactment of
uniform or reciprocal statutes or administrative rules or regula-
tions, the cooperation of governmental officials and officers with one
another and to take such other steps as it may deem advisable to as-
sist in bringing the various governments in the United States into
closer contact, and in developing the Council of State Governments
for this purpose. The Commission is authorized to establish such
delegations and committees as it deems advisable, for the purpose of