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Annual Report of Legislative Accounting Office to Senate President & House Speaker on services,, expenses, &
purposes of expenditures due after end of fiscal year.

Annual Report of Spending Afjbrdability Committee to Governor & Legislative Policy Committee due Dec.l.

Annual Report of Tort &Insurance Reform Oversight Committee to Governor &Legislative Policy Committee
due December 31.

Annual Report of Workers' Compensation Benefit & Insurance Oversight Committee to Governor &
Legislative Policy Committee due Dec. 31.

Report of Department of Fiscal Services to General Assembly on evaluation of governmental activity or unit due
on or before Oct. 31 of year before evaluation date.

Report of Department of Fiscal Services to Senate Budget <&r Taxation Committee <6f House Appropriations
Committee on policy implications of current procedures <6r'regulations fir disposition of'excess' State-owned
real property.

Report of Division of Budget Review of Department of Fiscal Services on public debt of State.

Report of Division of Budget Review of Department of Fiscal Services summarizing effect of legislative program
on financial condition of State due after every session.

Report of Legislative Auditor to Attorney General & appropriate State's Attorney on an apparent default to
State for any money by an officer or employee who is subject to audit.

Report of Legislative Auditor to Joint Budget & Audit Committee <6f 'Director of Department of Fiscal Services
on completion of each audit (copies to Governor, Comptroller of the Treasury, &any other person whom Joint
Budget & Audit Committee specifies).

Report of Legislative Auditor to Joint Budget & Audit Committee, Director of Department of Fiscal Services,
& unit or body that is the subject of report on an apparent violation of any law on use of State funds by unit
of State government or other body audited.

Report of Legislative Policy Committee to General Assembly on bills, resolutions, & recommendations intended
for submission at next session.

Report of Legislative Policy Committee to General Assembly updating matters before Committee due periodically.

Report of Spending Affmdability Committee to Governor & Legislative Policy Committee on recommendations
on fiscal goals for State budget to be considered at next regular session of General Assembly due Dec. 1.

Report of each standing committee to Legislative Policy Committee on proposed bills & joint resolutions to be
introduced in General Assembly by standing committee 'if time permits."

Status Report of Department of Fiscal Services to General Assembly on State Board of Waterworks & Waste
System Operators due Oct. 31, 1992.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The lawmaking powers of the State are vested in the General Assembly, which consists of two separate
branches — the Senate and the House of Delegates (Const., Art. Ill, sec. 1). The General Assembly has
188 members, with 47 Senators and 141 Delegates. One Senator and three Delegates are elected from
each of the 47 legislative districts. After every decennial census, legislative district boundaries are redrawn
to conform to the one person/one vote principle.

Each Senator or Delegate must be a citizen of Maryland and a resident for at least one year preceding
the date of election. A prospective legislator must have resided for the six months prior to election in the
legislative district the candidate seeks to represent. A Senator must be at least twenty-five years of age at
the rime of election and a Delegate at least twenty-one. Persons elected to or holding a civil or military
office other than as a member of a reserve component under the federal or Stare government are not
eligible for election to the General Assembly (Const., Art. Ill, sees. 9, 10, 11). All seats in the General
Assembly are up for election every four years. (The next general election will be held November 1994.)

The term of each Senator and Delegate is four years from the second Wednesday of January following
the date of election (Const., Art. Ill, sec. 6). No limit is placed on the number of terms a legislator may
serve. If a vacancy occurs in either house through death, resignation, or disqualification, the Governor
appoints a replacement whose name is submitted by the State Central Committee of the same political