WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 270

(2) Any individual in the legislative branch, INCLUDING AN
INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYED ON A FULL-TIME CONTRACTUAL BASIS FOR
MORE THAN 6 MONTHS, other than a State official, who receives a rate of
compensation equal to or above grade level 16 who is so designated by order by the
presiding officers of the General Assembly.

(3) Any individual in the judicial branch of government, including an
individual employed in the office of a clerk of court, or paid by a political subdivision to
perform services in any orphans' court, a circuit court for a county, and any individual
employed by the Attorney Grievance Commission, the State Board of Law Examiners,
or the Standing Committee on Rules who:

(i) Is classified or compensated at State grade level 16 or above; and

(ii) Is not a judge, master, commissioner, examiner, auditor, or
referee.

(4) Except for any full-time or part-time faculty member at a State
institution of higher education, any individual in an executive agency who, as
determined by the Ethics Commission pursuant to Section 2-103(h), is charged,
individually or as a member of the executive agency, with decision making authority or
acts as a principal advisor to one with such authority in drafting specifications for,
negotiating, or executing contracts which commit the State or any executive agency to
expend in excess of $10,000 per annum.

(5) Any member, appointee, or employee of the Maryland Stadium
Authority.

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

Approved May 2, 1990.

CHAPTER 270
(Senate Bill 484)

AN ACT concerning

Domiciliary Care Homes - Licensing and Regulation

FOR the purpose of altering the number of unrelated individuals that may be in Q home
that offers only domiciliary care before licensing is required by defining certain
terms; requiring a home that offers only domiciliary care to 2 or 3, 3, or 4
unrelated individuals to obtain a registration permit from the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene; altering the number of unrelated individuals that
may be in a home that offers only domiciliary care before a registration permit is
required by the Department; requiring authorizing the Department to adopt
certain regulations for homes that offer domiciliary care to 2 or 3, 3, or 4 unrelated

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