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(20)  Talbot.........................................1

(21)  Washington.....................................3

(22)  Wicomico.......................................2

(23)  Worcester......................................2

(b) In Baltimore City there shall be 23 resident judges of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

May 29, 1984
The Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland
Constitution, I have today vetoed House Bill 430.

As introduced, House Bill 430 would have provided an
alternative procedure for awarding House of Delegates
Scholarships. The original proposal would have provided
increased flexability to Delegates in awarding scholarships in
smaller amounts as a means of extending educational assistance to
more students. The aggregate funding level would have remained
unchanged. In its original form, House Bill 430 represented an
unoffensive programmatic change which would have merely extended
to delegates the flexibility currently enjoyed by their
counterparts in the Senate with respect to the awarding of
Senatorial Scholarships.

In its final amended form however, House Bill 430 doubles
the scholarships available to members of the House of Delegates,
beginning in Fiscal Year 1987, and increases by over forty-one
percent the funding level for Senatorial Scholarships, upon
completion of the initial four year phase-in of this proposed
increase.

Although this legislation originated as a benign
programmatic shift, it was transformed into a scholarship
enlargement bill with significant long-term fiscal implications
that raise serious questions of educational funding policy.