PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                            S.B. 810

FOR the purpose of reorganizing State government by creating and establishing as
principal departments of State government the Department of Business and
Economic Development and the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation;
transferring and reassigning the duties, responsibilities, authority, functions, and
units of the Department of Economic and Employment Development and the
Department of Licensing and Regulation to the new Departments; transferring
certain employment and training functions administered by the Department of
Economic and Employment Development to the Department of Labor, Licensing,
and Regulation; abolishing the Department of Economic and Employment
Development and Department of Licensing and Regulation as principal
departments of State government; providing for the appointment of the secretaries,
deputy secretaries, and the heads of certain units of the new Departments and for
the terms, duties, responsibilities, authority, and functions of those individuals;
establishing the Maryland Economic Development Commission within the
Department of Business and Economic Development; providing for the powers and
duties of the Commission; establishing the procedures for appointing the
Commission; setting the maximum number of Commission members; providing for
ex officio membership on the Commission; providing for certain eligibility criteria
for Commission members; providing for the terms of appointment to the
Commission; establishing a certain meeting requirement and reporting requirement
for the Commission; providing for the reimbursement of certain expenses of
Commission members; requiring Commission members to be subject to the
Maryland Public Ethics Law; requiring certain units of government to provide
certain information to the Commission; abolishing certain cabinets, councils, and
commissions in the Department of Business and Economic Development;
establishing and providing for the powers, duties, and objectives of certain Divisions
and units of government within each Department; abolishing certain Divisions and
units of government within the Department of Business and Economic
Development; requiring that employees of the Department of Business and
Economic Development hired after a certain date be in the unclassified service;
requiring certain positions to remain in the classified service under certain
conditions; authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Business and
Employment Development to set the compensation of certain employees; increasing
the maximum amount of certain loans within certain funds; increasing the maximum
amount of moneys that may be retained in certain funds; authorizing the Secretary
of the Department of Business and Economic Development to transfer funds among
certain accounts for workplaco training purposes; requiring the repayment of
certain loans from the Defense Adjustment Loan Fund to be retained by the Fund
under certain circumstances; repealing a certain restriction on loans made from the
Defense Adjustment Loan Fund; clarifying the individuals or parties who may
appeal a certain decision of a certain board of appeals; permitting a certain
retraining program to apply to certain hospital employees; providing that certain
printing contracts for a certain department are not subject to a certain condition;
authorizing certain investment earnings and the repayment of certain loans made
from money transferred from the Economic Development Opportunities Fund into
certain Funds to be retained by those Funds; validating bonds, notes, and other
evidence of indebtedness and obligations issued by the Department of Economic
and Employment Development or any of its authorized bond issuers; requiring all

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