WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Honorable R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr., Speaker of the House of
Delegates.

Signed May 14, 1987.

No. 5

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 30)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Women and Minority Business Entrepeneurs Entrepreneurs

FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to appoint a task

force to study woman women and minority business

entrepeneurs entrepreneurs, how to increase their numbers,

and increase the incidence of their successful business
participation.

WHEREAS, It is the policy of the General Assembly to

promote, assist, and encourage women and minorities as business

entrepeneurs entrepreneurs and to enhance their impact on the
economy; and

WHEREAS, Existing public and private programs available to
assist women and minority business entrepeneurs entrepreneurs are
not utilized to the extent possible; and

WHEREAS, The incidence of success of women and minorities in
business could be increased by better information, better
programs and easier access to the program; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Governor is requested to establish a task force to study women
and minority business entrepeneurs entrepreneurs; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That the Task Force be composed of:

(1)  2 members of the House of Delegates, appointed by
the Speaker of the House, and 2 members of the Senate of
Maryland, appointed by the President of the Senate; and

(2)  A representative of the Department of Economic
and Community Development; a representative of the Department of
General Services; a representative of the financial community; a
representative of higher education and a representative from the
Maryland Commission on Women; and

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