BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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CHAPTER 975

(House Bill 1561)

AN ACT concerning

Amendments to the Constitution

FOR the purpose of requiring that providing an alternative
means of publicizing amendments to the Maryland
Constitution be publicized by order of the Governor;
providing methods of publicizing amendments; and
submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of
the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection.

BY proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland

Article XIV - Amendments to the Constitution
Section 1

SECTION 1. BE II ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, (Three-fifths of all the members elected to each
of the two Houses concurring), That it be proposed that
section(s) of the Constitution of Maryland be repealed,
amended, or added to read as follows:

Article XIV - Amendments to the Constitution

1.

The General Assembly may propose Amendments to this
Constitution; provided that each Amendment shall be embraced
in a separate bill, embodying the Article or Section, as the
same will stand when amended and passed by three—fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses, by yeas
and nays, to be entered on the Journals with the proposed
Amendment. The requirement in this section that an
amendment proposed by the General Assembly shall be embraced
in a separate bill shall not be construed or applied to
prevent the General Assembly from (1) proposing in one bill
a series of amendments to the Constitution of Maryland for
the general purpose of removing or correcting constitutional
provisions which are obsolete, inaccurate, invalid,
unconstitutional, or duplicative; or (2) embodying in a
single Constitutional amendment one or more Articles of the
Constitution so long as that Constitutional amendment
embraces only a single subject. The bill or bills proposing
amendment or amendments shall be PUBLICIZED, EITHER BY
PUBLISHING, [published] by order of the Governor, in at
least two newspapers, in each County, where so many may be
published, and where not more than one may be published,
then in that newspaper, and in three newspapers published in
the City of Baltimore, once a week for four weeks]