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1122

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 169

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 27 of Article 40 - General
Assembly, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume and 1974 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 40 — General Assembly

27.

There is hereby created a Legislative Council, Said
Council shall be composed of thirty members, as follows:

(1)    The President, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BUDGET AND
TAXATION COMMITTEE. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL
AND PUBLIC LAN COMMITTEE, the chairman of the finance
committee, the chairman of 'the judicial proceedings
committee, the chairman of the committee on economic
affairs, the floor leader of the minority party and
[[ten]] EIGHT additional members to be appointed by the
President and approved by a majority vote of the Senate.

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

Said ten appointees from the Senate and eleven from
the House of Delegates shall be appointed 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)    Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the
Council ether 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

 

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