SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                     1697

of Maryland, to the Vice President of the United States as President
of the Senate of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the Congress of the United States, each member of the
Maryland Delegation in the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States, and the Librarian in the Library of Congress.

Approved May 4, 1967.

No. 8
(Senate Joint Resolution 8)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Legislative Council to appoint
the Joint Committee on Organization and Procedure as an Interim
Study Committee.

The members of the General Assembly of Maryland request the
Legislative Council following the 1967 regular session of the General
Assembly to appoint the Joint Committee on Organization and
Procedure as an Interim Study Committee.

The rules of both the House of Delegates and the Senate of
Maryland provide for the creation of a Joint Committee on Organiza-
tion and Procedure. The purpose of this committee was to provide
the means for systematic and detailed consideration of proposals for
changes in the rules, organization, procedure and operations of the
two houses in the General Assembly of Maryland.

The members of the General Assembly now are requesting that
this Joint Committee be appointed as an Interim Study Committee
to consider and evaluate various recommendations being made on
possibilities for legislative improvements.

A number of outside groups are working to submit possibilities
for improving the procedures and operations of the General Assembly
of Maryland. Thus, the Wills Commission has developed an extensive
report which is to be made available to all members of the Legis-
lature. The Legislature itself has provided for a survey of legislative
operations by the Eagleton Institute, which is connected with Rutgers
University.

Other groups including a special consultant who reported to the
Speaker of the House of Delegates have made suggestions for the
improvement of legislative operations.

All of these proposals should be thoroughly screened and studied
by a legislative group. The Joint Committee on Organization and
Procedure would be an excellent possibility to do this work because
of its close familiarity with the rules, procedure, organization, and
operations of the two houses of the General Assembly; now,
therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Legislative
Council is requested to designate the Joint Committee on Organization
and Procedure as an Interim Study Group following the 1967 Session
of the General Assembly, and be it further