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88C of the Annotated Code has not been prepared, the
appropriate State agency is required to submit a program
to the Department of State Planning for approval before
the authorization may be expended. For any project
listed in Section 1 of this Act which authorizes funds
for construction and for which the preliminary plans and
outline specifications required by Section 10 of Article
15A of the Annotated Code have not been prepared, the
appropriate State agency is required to submit the plans
and outline specifications to the Department of State
Planning for approval before the construction
authorization may be expended.

(11) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no

department, board, commission, agency or institution of
State government shall enter into an agreement with any
political subdivision of the State in which the
subdivision is authorized to make expenditures in support
of any project listed in this Act when the expenditures

are contingent upon future General Assembly

appropriations. This restriction also applies to

contingency agreements in support of those projects

listed in the General Construction Loans of 1973, 1974,

1975, and 1976 which have not been approved by the Board
of Public Works on the effective date of this Act.

[[(11)]] (12) This Act shall take effect June 1,
1976.

Approved May 25, 1976.

Senate Bill No. 371 — Governor's Item Veto Message

May 25, 1976.

Honorable Steny H. Hoyer
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. President:

I have today approved Senate Bill 371, the General
Construction Loan of 1976, except for the following
enumerated items therein which, in accordance with
Article II, Section 17, and Article III, Section 52(8) of
the Maryland Constitution, I have today expressly
disapproved and vetoed:

(1) Item (A) (1) (a) appearing in lines 116 through
164 on pages 3 and 4 of the bill, entitled

"(a) To supplement the appropriation for the
project to plan and prepare preliminary plans and