Ch. 429                                    2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

as the Comptroller of the Treasury receives written notification from the
chairmen of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and House
Committee on Appropriations that the funds may be released from the
contingency reserve and made available to the appropriate department,
board, commission, officer, school, or institution.

(3)    Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this section, the
Comptroller of the Treasury may not authorize any expenditure or obligation
that requires use of funds in the contingency reserve and any expenditure so
made shall be illegal.

(4)     The Secretary of Budget and Management is authorized to fix
the number and classes of positions, including temporary and permanent
positions, or person years of authorized employment for each agency, unit, or
program thereof, not inconsistent with the Public General Laws in regard to
classification of positions. The Secretary shall make such determinations
before the beginning of the fiscal year and shall base them on the positions or
person years of employment authorized in the budget as amended by
approved budgetary position actions. No payment for salaries or wages nor
any request for or certification of personnel shall be made except in
accordance with the Secretary's determinations. At any time during the fiscal
year the Secretary may amend the number and classes of positions or person
years of employment previously fixed by the Secretary; the Secretary may
delegate all or part of this authority. The governing boards of public
institutions of higher education shall have the authority to transfer positions
between programs and campuses under each institutional board's
jurisdiction without the approval of the Secretary, as provided in Section
15-105 of the Education Article.

. SECTION 30. 47. 48. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That numerals of
this bill showing subtotals and totals are informative only and are not actual
appropriations. The actual appropriations are in the numerals for individual items of
appropriation. It is the legislative intent that in subsequent printings of the bill the
numerals in subtotals and totals shall be administratively corrected or adjusted for
continuing purposes of information, in order to be in arithmetic accord with the
numerals in the individual items.

SECTION 31. 48. 49. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That pursuant to
the provisions of Article III, Section 52(5a) of the Constitution of Maryland, the
following total of all proposed appropriations and the total of all estimated revenues
available to pay the appropriations for the 2005 fiscal year is submitted:

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