Ch. 760

LAWS OF MARYLAND

in every county after a certain date requiring the
Department Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene by a
certain date to request sufficient budget support and assume
financial responsibility for the family support services
project serving certain counties; establishing an Individual
Support Services Program; requiring the Mental Retardation
and Developmental Disabilities Administration to enter into
grant agreements with private nonprofit community-based
organizations for the provision of individual support
services; requiring funding allocated to each provider to
include certain costs so that sufficient staff may be
employed to coordinate the individual support services;
requiring the Individual Support Program to be made
available to certain eligible persons; requiring that
eligible persons selected for services be informed of
individual support services and encouraged to use those
services prior to being offered certain other services;
defining certain terms; and generally relating to the Family
Support Services Program and the Individual Support Services
Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 7-703(a) and 7-704
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - Environmental

Section 7-269 through 7-271 to be under the new part "Part

IX. Individual Support Services Programs"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 7-706 through 7-708 to be under the new part "Part

III. Individual Support Services Program"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

7-703.

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