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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 304

CHAPTER 304

(Senate Bill 667)

AN ACT concerning

Public Education - Handicapped Children

FOR the purpose of requiring the State Superintendent of
Schools to allow a handicapped child to remain in a
day-care center for a certain fiscal year.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Education

Section 8-404(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article - Education

8-404.

(b) (1) Each plan shall provide for the education of
all handicapped children, including:

(i) Those who are severely handicapped,
whose parents or guardians are domiciled in the county; and

(ii) Those school-aged children who are in
day-care centers which were previously funded by the Mental
Retardation Administration and for whom an exception was
granted for fiscal years 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 whose
parents or guardians are domiciled in the county.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this
section, for fiscal [year] YEARS 1980-1981 AND 1981-1982
only, the State Superintendent shall allow a handicapped
child to remain in a day-care center on application for good
cause by the county superintendent. The application for
good cause may include the lack of:

(i) Available budget funds; or

(ii) Appropriate alternate school
placement.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 12, 1981.