MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                 1853

Approved May 7, 1973.

No. 21
(House Joint Resolution 67)

House Joint Resolution [[directing]]   requesting the State Department of

Education to prepare and implement    [[mandatory high school courses]]

curriculum materials on the forms and   functions of local, county, and State
governmental units.

WHEREAS, The citizens of Maryland now participate in the political process
at a younger age than ever before; and

WHEREAS, It is as much an obligation of this State to properly prepare,
inform, and educate our younger voters as it is their obligation as voters to become
prepared, informed, and educated; and

WHEREAS, Maryland schools do not adequately teach the fundamentals of
our government bodies, especially local and county governmental units; now,
therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
State Department of Education is [[directed]] requested to prepare and
implement [[mandatory courses]] curriculum materials in local, county and State
government, form and function, to be taught in [[all high]] public secondary
schools in this State; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the Governor and the
State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. James Sensenbaugh, Maryland State
Department of Education, P. O. Box 8717, Friendship International Airport,
Baltimore, Maryland 21240.

Approved May 7, 1973.

No. 22
(House Joint Resolution 77)

House Joint Resolution requesting the Department of Personnel and the Division
of Correction to recommend suggestions with respect to the transfer to other
positions within the Division of Correction or State employment in general of
correctional officers who have become physically or psychologically incapable of
performing their duties.

WHEREAS, The Committee on Constitutional and Administrative Law after
the 1972 Session of the General Assembly undertook a thorough examination of
the correctional system in the State; and

WHEREAS, One of the major areas with which the Committee became
involved was that of correctional officers and the desirability of maintaining an
efficient and high caliber correctional officer staff; and