11-206 read as follows: “With the approval of the Commission and, except as otherwise provided by law, subject to the provisions of the State Personnel and Pension Article that govern classified service employees, the executive director shall appoint a staff of the Commission.” BR § ll-206(a) (1992, 1996 Supp. superceded). On October 1, 1997, after the administrative law judge had made his ruling, BR § 11-206 was amended. The subsection now reads: ‘With the approval of the Commission and, except as otherwise provided by law, subject to the provisions of the State Personnel and Pensions Article, the executive director shall appoint a staff of the Commission.” BR § ll-206(a). We have based our conclusions on the amended statute. See State v. Johnson, 285 Md. 339, 343, 402 A.2d 876 (1979) (<HOLDING>); Gee v. Mass Transit Admin., 75 Md.App. 253,
recognizing that this courts construction of a statute becomes as much apart of the statute as the words of the statute itself and that change is a matter that addresses itself to the general assembly not this court holding that the title of the statute did not limit the reach of the statute holding that a statute which affects a matter still in litigation when the statute becomes effective will be applied by a reviewing court even though the statute was not then law when the decision appealed from was handed down unless the legislature expresses a contrary intent holding that statute which became effective after claimants death but prior to the trial of wrongful death case was remedial constitutional and governed pending litigation proceedings that were pending when statute was enacted holding that when a statute and a guideline conflict the statute controls