WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor
15-103.

(a) (1) The Secretary shall administer the Maryland Medical Assistance
Program.

(2) The Program:

(i) Shall provide comprehensive medical and other health care for
indigent individuals or medically indigent individuals or both;

(ii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all
pregnant women and, at a minimum, all children currently under the age of 1 whose
family income falls below 185 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the federal
law;

(iii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all
children from the age of 1 year up through and including the age of [2] 5 years whose
family income falls below [100] 133 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the
federal law;

(iv) May provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and
the availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical care and other health care for
all children from the age of [3] 6 up through and including the age of 7 whose family
income falls below 100 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by federal law; and

(v) May include bedside nursing care for eligible Program recipients.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1990.

May 29, 1990

The Honorable R. Clayton Mitchell, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland Constitution, I have today
vetoed House Bill 508.

This bill requires the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to require
owners of underground oil storage tanks to provide evidence of financial responsibility.

Senate Bill 376, which was passed by the General Assembly and signed by me on April
24, 1990, accomplishes the same purpose. Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign
House Bill 508.

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