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Public Safety and Correctional Services for the purpose of developing feasible
recommendations for a plan of coordination of the various efforts aimed at the
prevention and control of juvenile delinquency. In making the study, the advice and
assistance of the appropriate State Departments should be sought. The
Commission may call upon other public or private agencies as it deems
appropriate. The recommendations of the Commission may include, but need not
be limited to, possible areas of improved coordination among departments,
suggestions for joint responsibilities and cooperative program efforts, and ideas for
maximum efficiency in the utilization of monies expended in the prevention and
control of juvenile delinquency; and be it further

RESOLVED, That this Commission shall make its preliminary report to the
Governor and General Assembly by January 1974 and its final report to the
Governor and General Assembly by June 30, 1974 with any specific legislative
recommendations and that the study shall begin by July 1, 1973; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the Governor, the
Executive Director of the Governor's Commission on Law Enforcement and the
Administration of Justice, the Secretary of Budget and Fiscal Planning, the
Director of the Department of Juvenile Services, and the Secretaries of the
Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Employment and Social Services and
Public Safety and Correctional Services and the State Superintendent of Schools.

Approved May 7, 1973.

No. 28
(House Joint Resolution 100)

House Joint Resolution requesting the Joint Committee on the Management of
Public Funds to undertake a number of studies.

WHEREAS, The Committee on Appropriations of the House of Delegates has
considered a number of issues relating to the management of State funds during its
deliberations at the 1973 session, but has lacked sufficient time to review all of
them: and

WHEREAS, The Joint Committee on the Management of Public Funds has
been created to provide a continuing study of the subject; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Joint Committee on the Management of Public Funds is requested to undertake a
number of studies including, but not limited to:

(a)   The type and scope of a consultant's study on the total receipts, accounting,
disbursements and investment of public funds and the anticipated cost of such a
study;

(b)   The alternative methods of disbursing funds including the warrants system;

(c)   The role and objectives of the investment policy of the State in relation to
carrying out public policy;

(d)    The handling of public moneys by other public officials such as clerks of
courts and registers of wills;