Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-08-18
PROCLAMATION
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON-
STITUTION OF MARYLAND CREATING
A pIDcr~r cvcTrAT

STITUTION OF MARYLAND CREATING
A BUDGET SYSTEM.
Whereas, at the January Session of the
General Assembly Of Maryland, held in the
year 1915, an Act was passed, to-wit /:
| Chapter l59 Of said Acts, being an Act to
| propose an amendment to Section So of
Article Ill. title. Legislative Department"
of the Constitution of this State; and
which said Act is in words and figures
| following:
CHAPTER 159.
An Act to propose an amendment to
Section So of Article Iii, title, Legislative
Department. of the Constitution of this
State. regulating the making of appropria-
tons by the General Assembly of Mary
land in regular session. and to provide for
the submission of said amendment to the
qualified voters of this State for adoption
or rejection.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland (three-fifths of all
the members of each of the two houses
concurring), That the following be and the
same is hereby proposed as an amendment
TO Section So Of Article iii, title Leeisla-
tive Department of the Constitution of
this State, the same. if adopted by the
legally qualified voters of the State, as
herein provided, to become Section So of
Article iii of the Constitution of Maryland.
Sec. So. The General Assembly shall not
appropriate any money out Of the Treasury
except in accordance with the following
provisions:
Subsection A:
Every appropriation bill shall be either
a Budget Bill, or Supplementary ApprO-
priatiOn Bill. as hereinafter mentioned.
Subsection b:
| First. Within twenty days after the
converting of the General Assembly Tex
cept in the case Of a newly elected Gov
ernor. and then within thirty days after
his inaueuratiOn), unless such time shall
be extended by the General Assembly for
the session at which the Budget is to be
submitted. the Governor shall submit to
the General Assembly two budgets, one for
each Of the ensuing fiscal years. Each
budget shall contain a complete plan of
proposed expenditures and estimated reye-
nues for the particular fiscal year to which
II relates and shall show the estimated
surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of
such year. Accompanying each budget
shall be a statement showing: "a the
revenues and expenditures for each of the
two fiscal years next preceding (2) the
current assets. liabilities, reserves and sur
plus or deficit Of the State (3) the debts
and funds of the State; (4) an estimate
OF the States financial condition as of the
beginning and end of each of the fiscal
years covered by the two budgets above
provided; (5) any explanation the Gov
ernor may desire to make as to the i'm
portant features of any budget and any
suggestion as to methods for the reduc-
ton or increase of the States revenue.
Second Each budget shall be divided
into two parts, and the first part shall be
designated Governmental Appropriations
and shall embrace an itemized estimate of
the appropriations: O for the General AS
sembly as certified to the Governor in the
manner hereinafter provided; (2) for the
Executive Department; (3) for the Judi
ciary Department. as provided by law, Ger
titled to the Governor by the Comptroller :;
(4) to pay and discharge the principal and
interest of the debt Of the State of Mary
land in conformity with Section 81 of Ar
tlcle Ill OF the Constitution. and all laws
enacted in pursuance thereof; (5) for the
salaries payable by the State under the
Constitution and laws of the State; (6)
for the establishment and maintenance
throughout the State of a thorough and
efficient system Of public schools in con-
formity with Article VIII of the Constitu-
ton and with the laws Of the State; CD
for such other purposes as set forth in the
Constitution of the State.
Third. The second part shall be desie-
mated General Appropriations" and shall
include all other estimates of appropria-
tons.
The Governor shall deliver to the presid-
ing officer OF each house the budgets and
a bill for all the proposed appropriations of
the budgets clearly itemzed and classified
and the presiding officer of each house
shall promptly cause said bill to be intro
duced therein, and such bill shall be known
as the Budget Bill" The Governor may,
before final action thereon by the General
Assembly, amend or supplement either of
said budgets to correct an oversight or in
case OF an emergency. with the consent of
the General Assembly by delivering such
an amendment or supplement to the pre-
siding officers of both houses and such
amendment or supplement shall there
by become part of said budget bill as an
addition to the items of said bill or as a
modification of or a substitute for any
item of said bill such amendment or sup
plement may affect.
The General Assembly shall not amend
the budget bill so as to affect either the
obligations of the State under Section "a
visions made nv ,ho 1as. ~ ~ o. .ne pro-
'h S'ons naIe oy 'he Jaws oi ule state LOT
system of public schools or the nav,,ao,
of any salaries required to he maid bv he
State of MARYLAND by the Constitution
thereof; and the General Assembly NAV
amend the bill by Increasing or d;m;n;sh,
ing the items therein RELATING 10 the Ger
eral Assembly. and bv increasing the ;,ems
therein relating 10 the judiciary bnt axcan,
as hereinbefore specified NAV NOT aI,sr
the said bill except 10 strike on, or reduce
items therein nrovided ho,veva, ,ha, ~
salary or compensation Of anv nnhi;c
officer shall moi he decreosed dv,ips he
term of office and snch Hill ,,hen ana %" as
passed by both houses shall he q Is,s ;r a