606                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 263

mittee, the chairman of the committee on economic affairs, the floor
leader of the minority party and [six] ten additional members to be
appointed by the President and approved by a majority vote of the
Senate.

(2)    From the House of Delegates: The Speaker, the chairman
of the ways and means committee, the chairman of the judiciary
committee, the floor leader of the minority party and [six] eleven
additional members to be appointed by the Speaker of the House and
approved by a majority vote of the House.

Said [six] ten appointees from the Senate and [six] eleven from
the House of Delegates shall be appointed [during the 1959] during
and after the 1967 Session of the General Assembly and during each
regular session thereafter to serve until the beginning of the next
regular session, or appointment of their successors. As far as
possible such appointment shall be so distributed as to make the
Council representative of all sections of the State and of the relative
party membership in each house. The President of the Senate shall
be chairman of the Council, and the Speaker of the House shall be
vice-chairman. The Director of the State Department of Legislative
Reference shall be the secretary and the director of research of the
Council.

(3)    Filling vacancies.—Any vacancy occuring in the member-
ship of the Council other than in the offices of chairman and vice-
chairman while the General Assembly is not in session shall be
filled by appointment of the President of the Senate from among the
members of the Senate, if the vacancy is caused by the resignation
or death of a member of the Council from the Senate, and by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates, if the vacancy is caused by the
resignation or death of a member of the Council from the House of
Delegates, the appointments to be made in accordance with the
provisions of subsection (1) and (2). If the vacancy in the member-
ship of the Council is caused by the resignation or death of the
chairman or vice-chairman, the vacancy in such membership shall
be filled by the members of the Council from the membership of the
Senate or the House of Delegates, as the case may be. In case of
vacancy in the office of chairman, the vice-chairman shall become
chairman and the members of the Council shall elect one of its
members vice-chairman in his stead; and in the case of a vacancy in
the office of both chairman and vice-chairman, the members of the
Council shall elect one of its members chairman and one of its mem-
bers vice-chairman.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public health and safety and having been
passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect May 1, 1967.

Approved April 14, 1967.