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retention or transfer of any State employees, including
supervisory personnel, affected by the proposed program
changes and that such transfers should be, as far as
practicable, without loss of pay and to positions
directly providing service to the public or otherwise
increasing the productivity of the agency; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to

The Honorable Marvin Mandel, Governor of the      State of

Maryland , and the Secretary of the Budget and Fiscal

Planning.

*Not signed by the Governor.

No. 88*

(House Joint Resolution No. 153)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Review of Budget Process and Legislative Oversight

FOR the purpose of requesting the Policy Committee to
direct a review of the budget process and
legislative oversight and to report its findings to
the General Assembly by no later than December 1,
19 76.

WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Maryland is
constantly reviewing and improving its procedures in
order to re-establish its position as a co-equal branch
of government; and

WHEREAS, Despite these efforts, the public is
dissatisfied with the size and unresponsiveness of
government at all levels, as has been demonstrated by a
recent finding by pollster Louis Harris that "72 percent
of the public no longer feel they get good value from
their tax dollars"; and

[[WHEREAS, Much of the public dissatisfaction with
big government stems from the fact that executive branch
growth has outpaced legislative review and that oversight
has been, in the words of Alan Rosenthal of the Eagleton
Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, the
"neglected stepchild" of the legislative process; and]]

WHEREAS, The oversight efforts of the Joint Budget
and Audit Committee and the Joint Committee on
Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review should
be complemented by similar oversight efforts by the
nonfiscal [[committee]] committees of the General
Assembly; and