HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Article 41 - Governor - Executive and
Administrative Departments

231G-1.

(a) The Secretary of the Department of General
Services shall accept proposals for leases for office or
building space rental. The Secretary shall submit all the
proposals, along with his recommendations, to the Board of
Public Works for the Board's final approval, unless Board of
Public Works regulations provide otherwise.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

May 19, 1981
The Honorable James Clark, Jr.
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the
Maryland Constitution, today I have vetoed Senate Bill 953.

Senate Bills 1036 and 1037, enacted during the 1979
Session, authorized the Board of Public Works to adopt,
subject to the approval of the Joint Standing Committee on
Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review,
regulations by which State agencies may enter into capital
project related contracts and change orders. I vetoed those
two bills because of my strong policy objections to the use
of such legislative veto mechanisms, and I indicated that
the constitutional issues presented by those bills should be
resolved in the courts. The General Assembly overrode my
vetoes at the beginning of its 1980 Session.

Senate Bill 953 was introduced because of a concern
that certain provisions of Senate Bills 1036 and 1037 were
implicitly repealed by another bill enacted later in the
1980 Session. The resolution of the constitutional issues
by the courts would not be impeded by a veto of Senate Bill
953, however.

In order to continue to preserve my strong policy
objections to legislative vetoes, and to insure that the
courts are presented with a constitutional question which is
not tainted by an apparent gubernatorial approval, and to be
consistent with my veto of Senate Bill 58, I have vetoed
Senate Bill 953.