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MARYLAND MANUAL 803
requirements for a balanced budget, requiring that the
budget bill as submitted by the Governor, supplemented
by the Governor, and amended by the General Assembly
contain proposed appropriations not in excess of total
estimated revenues, relating generally to the contents and
totals in the budget bill, and submitting this amendment
to the qualified voters of the State for adoption or rejec-
tion.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, (three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two houses concurring), That the following- section be
and the same is hereby proposed as an amendment to Section
52 of Article III of the Constitution of Maryland, title
"Legislative Department," the same, if adopted by the
legally qualified voters of the State, as herein provided, to
become a part of the Constitution of Maryland:
(5A) The Budget and the Budget Bill as submitted by the
Governor to the General Assembly shall have a figure for
the total of all proposed appropriations and a figure for the
total of all estimated revenues available to pay the appro-
priations, and the figure for total proposed appropriations
shall not exceed the figure for total estimated revenues.
Neither the Governor in submitting an amendment or sup-
plement to the Budget Bill nor the General Assembly in
amending the Budget Bill shall thereby cause the figure for
total proposed appropriations to exceed the figure for total
estimated revenues, including any revisions and in the
Budget Bill as enacted the figure for total estimated reve-
nues always shall be equal to or exceed the figure for total
appropriations.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the afore-
going section hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of Maryland, at the next general election to be
held in this State in November 1974, shall be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or
rejection in pursuance of directions contained in Article 14
of the Constitution of this State, and at the said general
election, the vote on the said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there
shall be printed the words "For the Constitutional Amend-
ment" and "Against the Constitutional Amendment" as now
prescribed by law, and, immediately after said election, all
returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and
against said proposed amendment, as directed by said Ar-
ticle 14 of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in
accordance with said Article 14.
Approved, May 24,1973.

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