Administration of Criminal Justice: To this committee shall be referred, in accordance with the rules, all legislative instruments, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters relating to the following subjects:

* Administration of criminal justice generally.
* Criminal law.
* Code of criminal procedure and criminal procedure generally.
* Rules of criminal evidence.
* Controlled dangerous substance law and procedure.
* Traffic offense and procedure.
* Weapons and explosives.
* Penal and correctional institutions and juvenile and adult rehabilitation.
* Corrections.
* Gambling, gaming, and wagering, with the exception of pari-mutuel wagering.
* Charitable gaming.