ment to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be printed the words "For Constitutional
Amendment" and "Against Constitutional Amendment", as
now provided by law, and immediately after said election due
returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed by Article XIV
of the Constitution and further proceedings had in accordance
with said Article XIV.

Approved April 25,1955.

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing taw.
[Brackets) indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
• indicates matter stricken out of bill.

CHAPTER 616
(Senate Bill 597)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 27 of Article 3
of the Constitution of Maryland, title "Legislative Depart-
ment", to provide that no Bill shall originate in either House
during the last ten CALENDAR days of a regular Session,
in even years, or during the last twenty CALENDAR days
of a regular Session, in odd years, and submitting this amend-
ment to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or re-
jection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses concurring), That the following section be and it is
hereby proposed as an amendment to Article 3 of the Con-
stitution of Maryland, title "Legislative Department", the
same, if adopted by the qualified voters of the State to become
Section 27 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland.

27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General
Assembly and be altered, amended or rejected by the other,
but no bill shall originate in either House during the last ten
CALENDAR days of [the] a regular session in even years or
during the last twenty CALENDAR days of a regular session in
odd years, unless two-third of the members elected thereto shall
so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become a law
until it be read on three different days of the session in each
House, unless two-thirds of the members elected to the House
where such bill is pending shall so determine by yeas and nays,
and no bill shall be read a third time until it shall have been
actually engrossed or printed for a third reading.