1604                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

No. 33

(House Joint Resolution 11)

House Joint Resolution providing for the appointment of a Com-
mittee composed of members of the Maryland General Assembly
and the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1967 to direct the
revision and implementation of the legislation required as a result
of the adoption of the new Constitution.

The Constitution adopted by the Maryland Constitutional Con-
vention of 1967, subject to ratification May 14, 1968, will carry in
its wake as a condition subsequent to the ratification thereof a
possible complete revision of every article of the Annotated Code of
Maryland. A study must be made to determine what, if any, effect
the adoption of the proposed Constitution will have and if such
change is required how best to implement this change or changes in
the best interests of the people. This study and these decisions must
be made and adopted prior to the times respectively set forth for the
transitory legislation adopted by the Convention as an adjunct to the
Constitution.

It is proposed therefore that a committee be appointed to give
direction to the study and to propose legislation to the General As-
sembly at the regular sessions as well as special sessions which
will be required to affect the purposes aforesaid. Considering the
prerequisite that such committee have a permanent and competent
staff composed not only of technical but professional persons to per-
form this mammoth task the President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House along with the chairmen of their respective fiscal
committees and the President of the Constitutional Convention
should consult with the Governor and his fiscal advisers to determine
a sum to be set forth by the Governor in the Supplemental Budget
designated for the purpose herein set forth and to be disbursed at
the direction of the committee aforesaid through the Office of Legis-
lative Accounting.

The committee shall communicate with and apprise the Governor
of Maryland, the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates and
the President of the Senate of the progress of said committee that
they may cooperate with the committee in recalling the General
Assembly from time to time for the purpose of effecting passage of
legislation as aforesaid. Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That twenty-one
FOURTEEN EIGHTEEN persons be appointed to serve as a commit-
tee for purposes of preparing recommendations for implementing
legislation required or in the best interests of the people of Maryland
as a result of the Constitution proposed by the Maryland Constitu-
tional Convention of 1967; and be it further

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That such com-
mittee shall consist of seven members of the Maryland House of
Delegates, seven members of the Maryland Senate and seven members
of the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1967, to be appointed
DELEGATES AND, SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF
MARYLAND, AND FOUR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL
PUBLIC TO BE APPOINTED as follows: