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get and Fiscal Planning," subtitle "Budgetary Administration," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

8.

(e) Any department, board, commission, officer or institution may,
at any time submit in writing to the Governor an amended schedule
for the disbursement and apportionment of the appropriations made
to it by him. If the Governor shall approve such amended schedule
he shall transmit the same, with the certificate of approval, to the
Comptroller and thereafter, such appropriation shall be paid out in
accordance with said amended schedule, subject to the provisions of
subsection (f). Any such amended schedule so submitted to the
Governor may be withdrawn at any time before the Governor has
acted thereon. Any amended schedule approved by the Governor may
be again amended at any time in like manner and with like effect.
All amendments and schedules made or approved by the Governor
shall be reported by him to the [next session of the General Assem-
bly] AND AT THE TIME MADE OR APPROVED ALSO RE-
PORTED TO THE Department of Fiscal Services for the use of the
General Assembly.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1971.

Approved April 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 47
(Senate Bill 117)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 98A of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement
Volume and 1970 Supplement), title "Public Education," subtitle
"The Public Schools," to provide that school security guards may
intervene in a struggle on school grounds and to provide that they
shall be compensated for injury and protected from liability.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 98A of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1970 Supplement), title "Public Edu-
cation," subtitle "The Public Schools," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, and to read as follows:

98A.

(a) Principals, [and] teachers, and school security guards in
every public elementary and secondary school in this State may in-
tervene in any fight or physical struggle which takes place in their
presence in school buildings or on school grounds, between or among
students or any other persons. The degree and force of the inter-
vention shall be as reasonably necessary to restore order and to pro-
tect the safety of the combatants and surrounding persons.