J.R. 7

1995 JOINT RESOLUTIONS

spread in North American waters, and that the .Chesapeake Bay be explicitly designated
as a site for a public/private collaboration to demonstrate new technologies and practices
that will reduce the risk of nonindigenous species introduction; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the General Assembly acknowledges that the Chesapeake Bay
Commission, serving as the tri-state legislative arm of the Chesapeake Bay Program and
as legislative liaison to Congress will convey this Resolution to the members of Congress,
the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Research Council's Marine Board, and all other
appropriate international, national, state and local authorities concerned with the
management of ballast water.

Signed May 18, 1995.

Joint Resolution No. 7
(House Joint Resolution No. 9)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Public Employees - Dual Office Holding

FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to appoint a task force to study changing

the laws applicable to dual office holding by certain public employees; providing for

the membership of the task force; providing for certain notice procedures for

meetings of the task force; providing for a certain report; and generally relating to

a task force to study changing the laws applicable to dual office holding.

WHEREAS, Certain public employees who hold an "office of profit" or an "office
of trust" are prohibited by Article III §§ 11 and 17 of the Maryland Constitution and
Articles 33 and 35 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights from holding another public
office; and

WHEREAS, The legal differences between those who hold an "office of profit or
trust" and those who do not hold such an office are arcane and difficult to distinguish;
and

WHEREAS, Many appointed and elected officials have been affected by these
provisions, and these effects have been the source of numerous Attorney General
opinions; and

WHEREAS, Public policy favors mitigating the inherent unfairness of the above
stated dual office provisions; and

WHEREAS, The Constitutional Convention of 1967 proposed elimination of the
dual office provisions and recommended that potential conflicts of interest be governed
by a statute; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly enacted a constitutional amendment, which
was approved by the public, to allow public employees who hold an "office of profit" or an
"office of trust" to be members of a military reserve unit or members of the militia; and

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