1630                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

State of Maryland or one of its departments or agencies and to
prepare corrective legislation.

Whereas, It is apparent to the members of the General Assembly
that the present system of collecting and recovering certain monies
due the State of Maryland or one of its departments or agencies
is entirely inadequate; and

Whereas, some of these certain monies include, but are not limited
to, the payment for the support or maintenance of children or parents,
the payment and repayment of State loans for education, the payment
and repayment of welfare assistance and non-support payments, and

Whereas, the study should incorporate some type of central State
Department of Recoveries and Collections whose duty it would be
to recover and collect the various monies due the State of Mary-
land; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Legisla-
tive Council be directed to make such a study and to prepare such
corrective legislation, and report to the General Assembly at its
1969 Session.

Approved May 7, 1968.

No. 60
(House Joint Resolution 93)

House Joint Resolution to set forth the policy of the State of Mary-
land with respect to the salaries and pensions of judges of the
several courts in this State.

Whereas, There is a wide disparity in judicial salaries in Mary-
land on the circuit court level. These salaries are established by
statute in the sum of $20,000.00 to be paid by the State, but a
number of political subdivisions supplement the State salary for
judges in their respective jurisdictions.

The Judicial Salary and Pension Review Board appointed pur-
suant to House Joint Resolution 67 of 1966 has recommended the
payment by the State of uniform salaries to all circuit court judges
and that the local supplementation of judicial salaries should be
prohibited.

The problem of supplementation and its possible prohibition is
complicated by the presence of Sections 31 and 31A of Article 4 of
the Constitution of Maryland which give the power to Baltimore
City to supplement judges' salaries. There is pending a proposal to
amend the present Constitution, to remove this power from Balti-
more City. Also, the proposed new Constitution to be submitted on
referendum by the voters on May 14, 1968, would provide for uni-
form judicial salaries to be paid completely by the State.