22/Maryland Manual

General Assembly

levels, giving the General Assembly authority
to appoint a replacement for any State elected
or appointed officer who is unavailable to per-
form his duties, providing alternative means of
publishing amendments to the Constitution,
and reducing the number of years required of
a public officer to be in office before an in-
cumbent public officer's salary may be
changed.

At the November 1978 general election the fol-
lowing proposed Constitutional Amendments
failed to gain voter approval: granting right of
prior entry on vacant land in Anne Arundel
County, authorizing the State Treasurer to make
and sell short-term notes, and granting
Chestertown in Kent County quick-take condem-
nation authority.

OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT TO THE
PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER

Orin J. Durey, Assistant to the President and the
Speaker

Legislative Services Building
90 State Circle
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-2745

The Office of the Assistant to the President
and the Speaker was established in 1975 by joint
action of the President and Speaker as the admin-
istrative element of the Legislative Department.
He serves at their pleasure and may be removed
by joint action and at the discretion of the Presi-
dent and the Speaker.

The Assistant to the President and the Speaker
is responsible for all administrative functions. He
serves in a coordinating capacity for the Legisla-
tive Department with respect, to administrative
functions involving agencies such as the Depart-
ment of General Services, the Department of
Budget and Fiscal Planning, the Department of
State Planning, the Department of Personnel, and
the Comptroller's Office.

COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
STANDING COMMITTEES
SENATE

Laurence Levitan, Budget and Taxation
Edward T. Conroy, Constitutional and Public Law
Harry J. McGuirk, Economic Affairs
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J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Judicial Proceedings
Margaret C. Schweinhaut, Executive Nominations

HOUSE OF DELEGATES
John R. Hargreaves, Appropriations

Helen L. Koss, Constitutional and Administrative
Law

Frederick C. Rummage, Economic Matters
Torrey C. Brown, Environmental Matters
Joseph E. Owens, Judiciary
Tyras S. Athey, Ways and Means

Hattie N. Harrison, Rules and Executive
Nominations

Daniel J. Minnick, Jr„ Protocol

STATUTORY COMMITTEES

James dark, Jr. and Benjamin L. Cardin, Legis-
lative Policy Committee

Carter M. Hickman, Administrative, Executive and
Legislative Review

Lucille Maurer, Intergovernmental Cooperation
John W. Douglass, Joint Budget and Audit

Kay G. Bienen and Julian L. Lapides, Legislative
Ethics

Vacant, Management of Public Funds
Vacant, Metropolitan Mass Transit Oversight

STANDING COMMITTEES-
SUBJECT JURISDICTION

SENATE

Budget and Taxation

Consideration of State operating and capital
budgets, including revenues and expenditures;
supplementary appropriation bills; State and
county bond authorizations; legislative budgetary
procedures; all taxation and property assessment
legislation; and creation of judgeships.

Constitutional and Public Law
Government operations; procedures of executive
and administrative departments and agencies;