WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 214
CHAPTER 214
(House Bill 1390)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Community Mental Health, Addiction, and
Developmental Disabilities Facilities Capital Program

FOR the purpose of establishing the Community Mental Health, Addiction, and
Developmental Disabilities Facilities Capital Program to provide State grants for
the construction, acquisition, renovation, and equipping of community mental
health facilities, addiction facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities
(including the reports, plans, specifications, site improvements, surveys, and
programs in connection therewith); defining certain terms; requiring certain
information from grantees; requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to make recommendations and adopt regulations for approving projects,
including regulations providing for continuing information; placing certain terms,
conditions, and limits on the allocation, use, and amount of the grants; providing
that the State may recover a certain portion of the State funds expended under
certain circumstances; providing for certain judicial proceedings and liens;
providing for the enforcement of the State's right of recovery and the priority of
the proceedings and liens permitting the Board of Public Works to adopt certain
regulations; providing that no proceeds of a grant may be used for certain
religious purposes; and providing generally for the Community Mental Health,
Addiction, and Developmental Disabilities Facilities Capital Program.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 24-601 through 24-607, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle
6. Community Mental Health, Addiction, and Developmental Disabilities
Facilities Capital Program"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume)

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

Article - Health - General

SUBTITLE 6. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH, ADDICTION, AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES FACILITIES CAPITAL PROGRAM

24-601.

(A) IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(B) "FACILITY" MEANS:

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