WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 409

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
is the difference between the total
estimated budget for that subdivision and
that subdivision's appropriation; however,
no subdivision shall pay more than 80% of
its minimum budget nor less than 20%. The
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene
shall be responsible for acting on plans and
budgets for all health services in each
subdivision and shall expend the same
proportion of the State's share for State
approved programs that actual
expenditures, as established to the
satisfaction of the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene, made by that subdivision
for general health services bears to that
subdivision's share of the State approved
program, provided that all such
expenditures do not exceed the total
amounts available under the
appropriations herein set forth. If any
subdivision appropriates and expends more
than is provided herein as its share of its
estimated budget for minimum health
services, the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene is authorized, subject to
availability of funds under this
appropriation, to match such additional
expenditures, provided that the aggregate
of State and federal funds paid for such
additional expenditures shall not exceed
20% of such additional expenditures. The
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene is
authorized to promulgate rules and
regulations for the implementation and
application of the formula outlined herein.
Of the amount hereby appropriated, funds
for Home Health Services, Master Plan for
Water and Sewage, Air Quality, Rodent
Eradication, Geriatric Screening and
Evaluation and Community Health
Education shall be apportioned among the
several political subdivisions in the same
manner as heretofore provided with
respect to the minimum budget for other
general local health services.

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