and detail as he shall determine or as may be prescribed by
law; and the presiding officer of each House shall promptly
cause said bill to be introduced therein, and such bill shall
be known as the "Budget Bill." The Governor may, with
the consent of the General Assembly, before final action
thereon by the General Assembly, amend or supplement
said Budget to correct an oversight, provide funds contin-
gent on passage of pending legislation or, in case of an
emergency, by delivering such an amendment or supple-
ment to the presiding officers of both Houses; and such
amendment or supplement shall thereby become a part of
said Budget Bill as an addition to the items of said bill or
as a modification of or a substitute for any item of said bill
such amendment or supplement may affect.

(5a)⁸⁴ 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
appropriations, and the figure for total proposed appro-
priations shall not exceed the figure for total estimated
revenues. Neither the Governor in submitting an amend-
ment or supplement 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 revenues always shall be equal to or exceed the
figure for total appropriations.

(6)⁸⁵ The General Assembly shall not amend the Budget
Bill so as to affect either the obligations of the State under
Section 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, or the provisions
made by the laws of the State for the establishment and
maintenance of a system of public schools or the payment
of any salaries required to be paid by the State of Maryland
by the Constitution thereof; and the General Assembly may
amend the bill by increasing or diminishing the items therein
relating to the General Assembly, and by increasing or
diminishing the items therein relating to the judiciary, but
except as hereinbefore specified, may not alter the said bill
except to strike out or reduce items therein, provided,
however, that the salary or compensation of any public
officer shall not be decreased during his term of office; and
such bill, when 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 ex-
ecutive 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 consid-
eration thereof, and to answer inquiries relative thereto.

(8)⁸⁶ 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
accordance with the provisions following: (a) Every such
appropriation 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 reve-
nue 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
presented to the Governor of the State as provided in
Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitution and thereafter
all the provisions of said section shall apply.

(9) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pre-
venting die 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 1 of the Constitution of the United
States.

(10)⁸⁷ If the Budget Bill shall not have been finally acted
upon by the Legislature seven days before the expiration of
the regular session, the Governor shall issue a proclamation
extending the session for some further period as may, in his
judgment, be necessary for the passage of such bill; but no
other matter than such bill shall be considered during such
extended session except a provision for the cost thereof.

(11)⁸⁸ For the purpose of making up the Budget, the
Governor shall require from the proper State officials (includ-
ing all executive departments, all executive and administra-
tive offices, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies that
expend or supervise the expenditure of, and all institutions
applying for State moneys and appropriations) such itemized
estimates and other information, in such form and at such
rimes as directed by the Governor. An estimate for a program
required to be funded by a law which will be in effect during
the fiscal year covered by the Budget and which was enacted
before July 1 of the fiscal year prior to that date shall provide
a level of funding not less than that prescribed in the law. The
estimates for the Legislative Department, certified by the
presiding officer of each House, of the Judiciary, as provided
by law, certified by the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals,
and for the public schools, as provided by law, shall be
transmitted to the Governor, in such form and at such times
as directed by the Governor, and shall be included in the
Budget without revision.

(12)⁸⁹ The Governor may provide for public hearings
on all estimates and may require the attendance at such
hearings of representatives of all agencies, and for all
institutions applying for State moneys. After such public
hearings he may, in his discretion, revise all estimates except
those for the legislative and judiciary departments, and for
the public schools, as provided by law, and except that he
may not reduce an estimate for a program below a level of
funding prescribed by a law which will be in effect during
the fiscal year covered by the Budget, and which was
enacted before July 1 of the fiscal year prior thereto.