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"I have been associated with the Budget Bureau

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since 1939, and I believe in the interim period no sub-

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stantial change has been made by Consitutional Amendment of

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Article 3, affecting the provisions contained therein for

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executive budget control.

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"From my association through the National

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Association of State Budget Officers for over some nineteen

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years with the budget administrators of other states, 1

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believe that Maryland has the best and strongest executive

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budget system of any state, 1 know that we are the envy of

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most other state administrators. The system has worked

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well and has protected the financial integrity of the

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State, and I have no -recommendation for any change in

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Section 52. I believe that House Bill No. 290-Mandel

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(Chapter 416) recently enacted by the 1966 session, though

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apparently harmless in its provisions, might become the

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first inroad into the present controls."

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If 1 might digress here; that is the bill to

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let supplemental appropriations bills move through one

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house before the final passage of the budget. It is

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supposed to give them more time at the end to prevent the