SENATE BILL 153
Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Entitled:
- Reorganization of State Government - Consolidating the Department of the Environment into the Department of Natural Resources
Synopsis:
Restructuring State government by the consolidation of the Department of the Environment into the Department of Natural Resources; abolishing the Department of the Environment by June 30, 2012; abolishing the positions of Secretary of the Environment and Deputy Secretary of the Environment by July 1, 2012; transferring all of the functions, powers, duties, equipment, assets, and liabilities of the Department of the Environment to the Department of Natural Resources; etc.History by Legislative and Calendar Date
Any actions occurring today are available in the proceedings and hearing schedule
Legislative date is used to record history occurring in the Chambers otherwise Calendar date is used. Senate Action
- 1/24
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 1/26
- Hearing 2/8 at 1:00 p.m.
House Action
- No Action
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Administrative Agencies -see also- Electronic Government
- Annotated Code of Maryland
- Appropriations
- Bonds -see also- County & Baltimore City Bonds; State Bonds.
- Budget and Management, Department of
- Budgets -see also- Capital Budgets
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Environment, Department of
- Fees -see also- Attys' Fees; Devt Fees & Taxes; Reimb Rates.
- Hazardous and Toxic Substances -see also- Asbestos; Radiatn.
- Legislative Services, Department of
- Licenses -see also- Alcoholic Bev Lic; Drivers' Licenses
- Natural Resources, Department of
- Noise
- Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
- Privatization
- Radiation
- Refuse Disposal -see also- Recycling
- Reports
- Rules and Regulations
- Sanitarians
- Sewage
- State Employees
- Wells
Documents
All documents except Roll Call Votes are displayed in PDF format:- Bill Text: First Reading, Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal and Policy Note: Available
- Amendments: None offered
1 comment:
From what I collected from reading the text of the bill, two agencies who are currently doing the same job are being consolidated into one entity, although no one immediately loses their job.
If there were a provision that the combined staff could be cut by, say 40 to 50%, thereby saving the taxpayer a LOT of money, then let's do it.
On the other hand, if this idea will require yet another layer of government employees to "oversee" and "study" and then melt in to the existing already bloated employee numbers in the newly combined department, then it must be a no-go.
This must be made clear up front, though.
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