Ch. 153 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Article - Health - General

16-201.

(a) The Secretary shall adopt rules and regulations that set charges for services
that the Department provides for the physically ill, aged, mentally disordered, mentally
retarded, and developmentally disabled and other recipients of services in or through
State-operated:

(1) Clinics;

(2) Day care, day treatment, and day hospital care;

(3) Group homes and small residential homes;

(4) Inpatient care in regional and State hospitals and centers; and

(5) Inpatient and outpatient care of any other kind.

(b) The Secretary shall require political subdivisions and grantees to set, subject
to approval and modifications of the Secretary, charges for services that are provided by
the political subdivisions or grantees and that are supported wholly or partly by State or
federal funds administered by the Department.

(c) Charges for services shall be set at least annually [and are subject to the
approval of the Secretary of Budget and Fiscal Planning].

(d) If the Secretary considers it to be in the best interest of the public health,
the Secretary may designate specific services for which a charge may not be made.

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

Approved April 24, 1990.

CHAPTER 153
(House Bill 313)

AN ACT concerning

Hazardous and Toxic Substances in the Workplace - Access to Information

FOR the purpose of altering the Maryland Access to Information About Hazardous and
Toxic Substances Act; conforming certain provisions of that Act to certain
provisions of the United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, "Hazard Communication Standard"; making stylistic
changes; and generally relating to access to information about hazardous and toxic
substances in the workplace.

BY repealing

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