PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 171

CHAPTER 171
(Senate Bill 794)

AN ACT concerning

Council on Management and Productivity

FOR the purpose of establishing a Council on Management and Productivity in the
Department of Budget and Fiscal Planning; specifying the duties of the Council;
repealing certain authorization for the Efficiency 2000 Commission; providing for
the membership, selection of a chairman, quorum, terms, and reimbursement of
members of the Council; providing for the annual budget of the Council; providing
a certain immunity from liability for the State and the Council; requiring the
Council to submit a certain annual report; providing for the termination of the
existence of the Council by a certain date; specifying a rule of construction for this
Act; defining a certain term; and generally relating to the establishment of a
Council on Management and Productivity.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government

Section 9-1801 through 9-1808 9-1809, 9-1811, and 9-1812
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing

Article - State Government
Section 9-1809 and 9-1810
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - State Government

9-1801.

(a)     In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)     ["Commission"] "COUNCIL" means the [Efficiency 2000 Commission]
COUNCIL ON MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY.

(c)     (1) "Governmental unit" means a permanent instrumentality in the
Executive, Legislative, or Judicial Branch of State government.

(2) "Governmental unit" includes a department, board, commission, agency,
or a subunit in the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial Branch of State government and
those county-funded State entities specified in Article 24, § 8-101 of the Code.

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