PREFACE

The purpose of the State Legislative Program is to provide the Maryland State Bar Association Board of Governors with an opportunity to review the activities of the Committee on Laws and to establish the legislative priorities of the MSBA in advance of the annual session of the Maryland General Assembly.

The procedure for accomplishing this objective consists of two steps:

1. Review of a Preliminary State Legislative Program by the Board of Governors, which in turn makes recommendations to the Committee on Laws on legislative priorities and Association positions on these priorities; and,

2. Approval of a Final State Legislative Program which incorporates the recommendations of the Board of Governors into the Preliminary Legislative Program, and is the definitive statement of the Association on issues anticipated to arise during the legislative session.

In deciding which issues are most appropriate for MSBA activity, the Committee on Laws focuses its attention on legislative areas that have a broad impact upon the practice of law and the administration of justice in the State of Maryland, and on previous legislation that has been of great concern to the MSBA membership.

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