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Committee of that county shall submit the name of a
resident of the district
(3) If the vacancy occurs in a district which has boun
danes comprising a portion or all of two or more counties,
the Central Committee of each county involved shall have
one vote for submitting the name of a resident of the
district, and if there is a tie vote between or among the
Central Committees, the list of names there proposed shall
be submitted to the Governor, and he shall make the
appointment from the list
SEC. 14.s4 The General Assembly shall meet on the
second Wednesday of January nineteen hundred and seven
ty one, and on the same day in every year thereafter, and
at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the
Governor A Proclamation convening the General Assemb
ly in extraordinary session must be issued by the Governor
if a majority of the members elected to the Senate and a
majority of the members elected to the House of Delegates
join in a petition to the Governor requesting that he
convene the General Assembly in extraordinary session,
and the Governor shall convene the General Assembly on
the date specified in the petition This section does not
affect the Governor's power to convene the General As
scmbly in extraordinary session pursuant to Section 16 of
Article II of this Constitution
SEC. 15. (1) The General Assembly may continue
its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may
require, for a period not longer than ninety days in each
year The ninety days shall be consecutive unless otherwise
provided by law The General Assembly may extend its
session beyond ninety days, but not exceeding an addition
al thirty days, by resolution concurred in by a three fifths
vote of the membership in each House When the General
Assembly is convened by Proclamation of the Governor,
the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, but
no additional compensation other than mileage and other
allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the
General Assembly for special session
(2) Any compensation and allowances paid to members
of the General Assembly shall be as established by a
commission known as the General Assembly Compensa
tion Commission The Commission shall consist of nine
members, five of whom shall be appointed by the Gover
nor, two of whom shall be appointed by the President of
the Senate, and two of whom shall be appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates Members of the
General Assembly and officers and employees of the
Government of the State of Maryland or of any county, city
or other governmental unit of the State shall not be eligible
for appointment to the Commission Members of the
Commission shall be appointed for terms of four years
commencing on June 1 of each gubcrnatonal election year
Members of the Commission are eligible for re appoint
mcnt Any member of the Commission may be removed
by the Governor pnor to the expiration of his term for
official misconduct, incompetence, or neglect of duty The
members shall serve without compensation but shall be
reimbursed for expenses incurred in carrying out their
responsibilities under this section Decisions of the Corn
mission must be concurred in by at least five members
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(3) Within 15 days after the beginning of the regular
session of the General Assembly in 1974 and within 15 days
after the beginning of the regular session in each fourth year
thereafter, the Commission by formal resolution shall submit
its determinations for compensation and allowances to the
General Assembly The General Assembly may reduce or
reject, but shall not increase any item in the resolution The
resolution, with any reductions that shall have been con
curred in by joint resolution of the General Assembly, shall
take effect and have the force of law as of the beginning of
the term of office of the next General Assembly Rates of
compensation and pensions shall be uniform for all members
of the General Assembly, except that the officers of the
Senate and the House of Delegates may receive higher
compensation as determined by the General Assembly
Compensation Commission The provisions of the Corn
pcnsation Commission resolution shall continue in force
unnl superseded by any succeeding resolution
(4) In no event shall the compensation and allowances
be less than they were pnor to the establishment of the
Compensation Commission
SEC. 16. No book, or other pnnted matter not apper
taming to the business of the session, shall be purchased,
or subscribed for, for the use of the members of the General
Assembly, or be distributed among them, at the public
expense
SEC. 17 No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as
such, notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, shall
during the whole period of time, for which he was elected,
be eligible to any office, which shall have been created, or
the salary, or profits of which shall have been increased,
dunng such term
SEC. 18. No Senator or Delegate shall be liable in any
civil action, or criminal prosecution, whatever, for words
spoken in debate
SEC. 19s6 Each House shall be judge of the qualifica-
tions and elections of its members, as proscribed by the
Constitution and Laws of the State, and shall appoint its
own officers, determine the rules of its own proceedings,
punish a member for disorderly or disrespectful behaviour
and with the consent of two thirds of its whole number of
members elected, expel a member, but no member shall be
expelled a second time for the same offence
SEC. 20. A majority of the whole number of members
elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn
from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent
members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each
House may proscribe
SEC. 21 The doors of each House, and of the Corn
mittcc of the Whole, shall be open, except when the
business is such as ought to be kept secret
SEC. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its
proceedings, and cause the same to be pubbshcd The yeas
and nays of members on any question, shall at the call of
any five of them in the House of Delegates, or one in the
Senate, be entered on the Journal
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