HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be transferred, without amendments, to the Session Laws, to
read as follows:

Article 40 - General Assembly

Joint Legislative Committee on Metropolitan Mass Transit

105.

In order that it may properly exercise its
responsibilities to make appropriations and determine policy
for the State and the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit
District, and because of the nature and size of the fiscal
commitment of the State to the mass transit system in that
transit district, and because of the important policy
questions involved in this project, the General Assembly
desires to have a joint committee of both houses to
independently review, evaluate and make recommendations to
the General Assembly with respect to the mass transit system
in that transit district. It is the intent of the General
Assembly that the Secretary of Transportation shall submit
mass transit plans for that transit district to the joint
committee for its review and evaluation and that the
committee shall forward its recommendations to the members
of the General Assembly for their consideration.

106.

(a)  A committee of the General Assembly, to be known
as the "Joint Legislative Committee on Metropolitan Mass
Transit," is created. The committee consists of ten members
of the General Assembly. Five members shall be appointed by
the President of the Senate and five members shall be
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. The
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House may
appoint a chairman or two cochairmen. If cochairmen are
appointed, one cochairman shall be appointed by the
President, and one cochairman shall be appointed by the
Speaker; and the cochairmen shall serve at the pleasure of
the President and the Speaker.

(b)  The committee shall review, evaluate and make
recommendations with respect to the mass transit system in
the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit District.

(c)  The committee shall have the staff assistance,
including a qualified consultant as provided for in the
budget.

(d)  The State Department of Transportation and all
other State agencies shall cooperate with the committee and
its staff.