Considers legislation relating to judicial adminis-
tration and court structure; legal profession; law
enforcement and public safety; crimes and penal-
ties; criminal and civil laws and procedures; juve-
nile justice; marriage and divorce; real property;
trusts, estates, and probate; corporations; legal
rights and immunities; and drunk driving.

Ways and Means

Tyras S. Athey, Chairperson
Gerard F. Devlin, Vice-Chairperson

Curtis Anderson; Mary H. Boergers; William J.
Burgess; William H. Cox, Jr.; Clarence Davis;
Dennis C. Donaldson; Idamae Garrott; Thomas
H. Hattery; Henry R. Hergenroeder; A. Wade
Kach; Thomas B. Kernan; Theodore Levin;
Daniel M. Long; Lucille Maurer; Dennis C.
McCoy; Thomas J. Mooney; Lewis R. Riley; Ida
G. Ruben; Elizabeth S. Smith; Michael J.
Sprague; Paul E. Weisengoff; Albert R. Wynn.

Room 110, Lowe Building Telephone: 841-3469

Considers legislation relating to State and local
taxation, including property tax credit programs
and assessments; financing of State programs and
services; education, health, and welfare; transpor-
tation; gambling and horse racing; and creation of
judgeships.

Rules and Executive Nominations

Hattie N. Harrison, Chairperson
Donald B. Robertson, Vice-Chairperson

John S. Amick; Tyras S. Athey; Benjamin L.
Cardin; Thomas B. Kernan; Helen L. Koss;
Pauline H. Menes; R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr.;
Louis P. Morsberger; Robert R. Neall; Joseph E.
Owens; Lewis R. Riley; Frederick C. Rummage;
Thomas A. Rymer; Larry Young.

Room 323, Lowe Building Telephone: 841-3325

Considers proposals concerning the rules, organi-
zation, and procedures of the House; considers
proposals affecting the legislature as an institution
and its agencies; examines nominations requiring
House confirmation and reports its recommenda-
tions; reviews legislation introduced after the bill
deadline, and decides on re-referral of those bills to
other committees for consideration.

Consent Calendar (appointed on an as needed
basis)

Determines the bills and joint resolutions proposed
for inclusion on the consent calendar.

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JOINT STANDING
COMMITTEES

Investigation
Walter M. Baker, Senate Chairperson
Richard A. Palumbo, House Chairperson

Senate members: Joseph S. Bonvegna; F. Vernon
Boozer; Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.; S. Frank
Shore. House members: Theodore Levin;
Constance E. Morella; Joan B. Pitkin; Sylvania
W. Woods, Jr. Telephone: 841-3870

Inquires into abuses in expenditures of public
monies when referred by resolution of either house
of the General Assembly.

Protocol

B. W. Mike Donovan, Senate Chairperson

Anthony M. DiPietro, Jr., House Chairperson
Telephone: 841-3457

Organizes, plans, and schedules the social activities
of the General Assembly.

Organization and Procedure

Joint meeting of those separate committees of the
Senate and the House, when required.

STATUTORY COMMITTEES
LEGISLATIVE POLICY COMMITTEE

Co-Chairpersons: Melvin A. Steinberg, President of
the Senate; Benjamin L. Cardin, Speaker of the
House of Delegates

Members from the Senate: Clarence W. Blount;
Joseph S. Bonvegna; John A. Cade; Jerome F.
Connell, Sr.; Howard A. Denis; Julian L.
Lapides; Laurence Levitan; Frederick C.
Malkus, Jr.; Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.; Dennis
F. Rasmussen; Charles H. Smelser; Norman R.
Stone, Jr.

Members from the House of Delegates: Tyras S.
Athey; Hattie N. Harrison; Thomas B. Kernan;
Helen L. Koss; R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr.; Robert
R. Neall; Joseph E. Owens; Lewis R. Riley;
Donald B. Robertson; Frederick C. Rummage;
Thomas A. Rymer; Larry Young.

Michael I. Volk, Committee Reporter

90 State Circle
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 841-3870