Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1259

CHAPTER 595
(House Bill 1154)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2(a)
of Article 70B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1970 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Commission on the Aging," changing the
name of the State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the
Aging.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2(a) of Article 70B of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1970 Replacement Volume), title "Commission on the Aging,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

2.

(a) There is hereby created as part of the State Department of Em-
ployment and Social Services a commission to be known as [the State
Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging] The Commis-
sion on Aging. The Commission shall consist of seventeen (17)
members, eleven of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, with
the advice of the Secretary of Employment and Social Services, for
terms of six years. Of the eleven members appointed by the Gov-
ernor, one shall be a member of the Senate of Maryland, one a member
of the House of Delegates of Maryland, one a representative of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, one a representative
of the Baltimore City Medical Society, one a representative of labor,
one a representative of industry, one member who shall be specially
knowledgeable in research, one member who shall be associated with
the work of charitable organizations, and three members who shall
be selected because of their interest in the problems of the aging.
Of the said ten members first appointed, two shall be appointed for
terms of two years, two for terms of three years, two for terms of
four years, two for terms of five years and two for terms of six
years each. The Governor, with the advice of the Secretary of Em-
ployment and Social Services, shall designate one of said eleven
members as chairman of the Commission. In case of any vacancy,
the Governor, with the advice of the Secretary of Employment and
Social Services, shall appoint a successor to serve for the remainder
of the unexpired term. Members thereof shall be eligible for re-
appointment. Six members of the Commission shall be, ex officio, the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Director of the Social
Services Administration, the State Superintendent of Schools, the
Executive Director of the Employment Security Administration, the
Director of the State Planning Department, and the Secretary of
Employment and Social Services.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,, That The Commission on
Aging herein referred to is a continuation of the State Coordinating
Commission on Problems of the Aging heretofore established; it
being the intent and purpose of this Act to change the name of the
mentioned State Commission without other changes in powers, duties,
functions, operations and employees. All references to the State
Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging in other laws
of this State and of its political subdivisions are changed to be