PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 380

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 380
(Senate Bill 735)

AN ACT concerning

State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and
Speech-Language Pathologists - Appointment of Audiologist Members

FOR the purpose of requiring the Governor to appoint the audiologist members of the
State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and
Speech-Language Pathologists from a certain list submitted to the Governor and
the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene by the Maryland
Academy of Audiology and the Maryland Speech-Language and Hearing
Association; requiring that the list contain a certain minimum number of people;
requiring the Maryland Academy of Audiology and the Maryland Speech-Language
and Hearing Association to notify by mail all licensed audiologists of the vacancy on
the Board; requiring the Maryland Academy of Audiology and the Maryland
Speech-Language and Hearing Association to conduct a ballot of all licensed
audiologists to select the names that will be submitted to the Secretary and the
Governor; making stylistic changes; and generally relating to the appointment of
audiologist members of the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid
Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health Occupations
Section 2-201

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health Occupations
Section 2-202(a) and (f)(6)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

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