HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               2173

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the
Honorable Harry Hughes, Governor of Maryland; the Honorable
James Clark, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable
Benjamin L. Cardin, Speaker of the House.

Signed May 1, 1979.

No. 22

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 69)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

State Procurement — Property Disposal and
Enterprise Activities

FOR the purpose of requesting the Legislative Policy
Committee to continue the Purchasing and Procurement
Policies Task Force to review, study, and make
recommendations on State policies concerning enterprise
activities and disposal of certain property.

WHEREAS, The special, joint, Purchasing and Procurement
Policies Task Force was created on May 29, 1977 by the
Legislative Policy Committee pursuant to Resolution 28 of
the Acts of 1977 with the objective of bringing greater
coordination, simplicity, and uniformity to the State's
purchasing and procurement processes and to consolidate and
integrate the diverse purchasing and procurement laws in the
Annotated Code;

WHEREAS, The 12—member legislative Task Force has
introduced various procurement legislation during the 1979
session which would satisfy the original charter of the
Task Force, one of which would create a new Article 21
entitled "State Procurement of Supplies, Services and
Construction";

WHEREAS, During the past several public hearings of the
Task Force there has surfaced several policy questions among
the legislative members concerning whether or not to include
in the new Proposed Procurement Article provisions
concerning the sale or other means of disposal of various
properties owned by the State;

WHEREAS, It was subsequently decided that provisions
relating to property disposal be removed from the
Procurement legislation;

WHEREAS, Certain enterprise activities such as the
granting of concessions, the leasing of State—owned
facilities or property and other income producing functions