Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    643

title "Merit System", providing that the Standard Salary Board
may not grant a salary increase to one class without granting the
same increase to all other comparable classes occupying the same
salary bracket, and that comparable salaries shall be based upon
the relative value of the services performed. RELATING TO IN-
CREASES IN THE MARKET VALUE OF SERVICES PER-
FORMED BY ANY CLASS OF EMPLOYEES IN THE CLASSI-
FIED SERVICE AND TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COM-
PENSATION FOR THIS CLASS AND RELATED CLASSES OF
EMPLOYEES BY THE STANDARD SALARY BOARD.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 25 of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1956 Supp.), title "Merit System", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

25. (a) The Commissioner shall be responsible for developing all
data, including but not limited to tables, charts, job descriptions, job
comparisons and ratings for use of the Standard Salary Board. It
shall be the duty of the Board to consider the materials developed by
the Commissioner, and after consultation with appointing authorities,
the State Employees Standard Salary Board shall prepare and recom-
mend to the Governor a pay plan for all classes of positions in both
the classified and unclassified service to the end that all positions
in such services involving comparable duties, experience, responsi-
bilities and authority shall be paid comparable salaries in accordance
with the [Standard Salary Schedule.] relative value of the services
to be performed. In establishing rates of pay, the State Employees
Standard Salary Board shall give consideration to experience, the
prevailing rates of pay for the services performed, and for com-
parable services in public and private employment, living costs, main-
tenance or other benefits received by employees, and the State's
financial condition and policies. Such pay plan shall take effect and
shall have the force and effect of law when approved by the Governor.
Amendments thereto may, from time to time, be recommended by
the Board and when approved by the Governor shall have the force
of law in the same manner as if they had been originally incorporated
in the schedule WHEREVER THE BOARD SHALL FIND THAT
THERE IS AN INCREASE IN THE MARKET VALUE OF SERV-
ICES PERFORMED BY ANY CLASS, IT SHALL BE THE DUTY
OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PERSONNEL TO IDENTIFY AND
PRESENT TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION AT THE
SAME TIME ALL OTHER RELATED CLASSES WHICH ARE
AFFECTED BY THE SAME CHANGE IN MARKET VALUE.
Each employee in the classified and in the unclassified service shall
be paid at one of the rates set forth in the pay plan for the grade
or class of positions in which he is employed. The pay plan shall
be used by the Governor in the preparation and submission of his
budget. Provided, however, that positions upon the faculties of
the University of Maryland, State Teachers' Colleges and Morgan
State College, but not the non-instructional personnel of such insti-
tutions, shall be excluded from said pay plan and from the jurisdic-
tion of the State Employees Standard Salary Board. Where different
classes of positions have been determined to be comparable and
occupy the same salary bracket, the Board shall make no amendment

to the pay plan granting an increase in salary to one class which