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Budget & Taxation Committee, Maryland State Senate
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Origins and Functions
Functions of the Budget and Taxation Committee began when the Finance Committee was created in 1831. Responsibility for reviewing bills concerned with the budget of State government and tax matters was reassigned to the Budget and Taxation Committee when it was established in 1975.
The Budget and Taxation Committee considers legislation relating to State operating and capital budgets, including revenues, expenditures, and supplementary appropriations; legislative budgetary procedures; State and county bond authorizations; taxation and property assessments; education financing; and pension and retirement matters. The Committee consists of thirteen members.
Under the Budget and Taxation Committee are four subcommittees: Capital Budget; Health, Education and Human Resources; Pensions; and Public Safety, Transportation and Environment[1].
Subcommittees
Capital Budget Subcommittee - The Capital Budget Subcommittee has functioned since 1976.
Health, Education & Human Resources Subcommittee - Functions of the Health and Human Services Subcommittee were evident by 1982 and assigned to the Health, Education and Human Resources Subcommittee. The Subcommittee reorganized as the Health and Human Services Subcommittee in January 2000. It reformed under its current name in January 2008.
Pensions Subcommittee - The Pensions Subcommittee formed by 1992.
Public Safety, Transportation & Environment Subcommittee - The Public Safety, Transportation and Environment Subcommittee was created as the Public Safety, Transportation, Economic Development and Natural Resources Subcommittee. It reorganized under its present name in January 2000[2].
Current members
Democrats (9)
- Edward Kasemeyer Chair
- Verna Jones
- Ulysses Currie
- James DeGrange, Sr.
- Nancy King
- Richard Madaleno, Jr.
- Roger Manno
- Douglas Peters
- James Robey
Republicans (3)
- Richard Colburn Vice Chair
- David Brinkley
- George Edwards
2009-2010 members
- Edward Kasemeyer Vice Chair
- James DeGrange, Sr.
- J. Lowell Stoltzfus
- Nancy King
- George Edwards
- Donald Munson
- David Brinkley
- Robert Zirkin
- James Robey
- Rona Kramer
- Richard Madaleno
- Douglas Peters
- Ulysses Currie
- James DeGrange, Sr.
- J. Lowell Stoltzfus
- Nancy King
- Verna Jones
- Nathaniel McFadden
