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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="8-402" title_number="8" title_name="Organization of Executive Branch" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Maryland Program Evaluation Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The General Assembly finds that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a framework that allows for periodic, legislative review of the regulatory, licensing, and other governmental activities of the Executive Branch of the State government is essential for the maintenance of a government in which the citizens have confidence and of a healthy State economy; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>this legislative review is consistent with other activities and goals of the General Assembly.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purposes of this subtitle are to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>establish a system of legislative review that will:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>determine whether a governmental activity is necessary for the public interest; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>make units that are responsible for necessary governmental activities accountable and responsive to the public interest; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>ensure that the legislative review takes place by establishing, by statute, a process for the review and other legislative action.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
