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[Art. 3, Sec. 52] MARYLAND MANUAL 625
and as passed by both Houses, shall be a law immediately without further action by the Governor. (7) The Governor and such representatives of the execu- tive departments, boards, officers and commissions of the State expending or applying for State's moneys, as have been designated by the Governor for this purpose, shall have the right, and when requested by either House of the General Assembly, it shall be their duty to appear and be heard with respect to any Budget Bill during the considera- tion thereof, and to answer inquiries relative thereto. 1) Supplementary Appropriation Bill. Either House may consider other appropriations but both Houses shall not finally act upon such appropriations until after the Budget Bill has been finally acted upon by both Houses, and no such other appropriation shall be valid except in accord- ance with the provisions following: (a) Every such appro- priation shall be embodied in a separate bill limited to some single work, object or purpose therein stated and called herein a Supplementary Appropriation Bill; (b) Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue necessary to pay the appropriation thereby made by a tax, direct or indirect, to be levied and collected as shall be directed in said bill; (c) No Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall become a law unless it be passed in each House by a vote of a majority of the whole number of the members elected, and the yeas and nays recorded on its final passage; (d) Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be pre- sented to the Governor of the State as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution and thereafter all the pro- visions of said section shall apply. (9) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pre- venting the General Assembly from passing at any time, in accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of Article 3 of the Constitution and subject to the Governor's power of approval as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution, an appropriation bill to provide for the pay- ment of any obligation of the State within the protection of Section 10 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States. (10) If the Budget Bill shall not have been finally acted upon by the Legislature three days before the expiration of its regular session, the Governor may, and it shall be his duty to issue a proclamation extending the session for some further period as may, in his judgment, be necessary for 'Thus amended by Chapter 416, Acts of 1966, ratified November 8, 1966. |
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