THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1847

No. 12
(House Joint Resolution 3)

House Joint Resolution requesting the Committee on
Medical Care to study the problem of establishing an
equitable financial responsibility of the State and of its
counties as to health activities and to make recommenda-
tions on this question to the General Assembly.

WHEREAS, the division of financial responsibility be-
tween the State and local health departments is confused
by the absence of prescribed formula© and policies govern-
ing State and local support of local health activities; and

WHEREAS, the fact that each county health officer is also
ex officio a deputy state health officer adds further uncer-
tainty to this question of financial responsibility; and

WHEREAS, additional uncertainty is provided by the lack
of clear understanding as to which services rendered in a
locality are local or State in nature and also by the inade-
quacy of accounting data on State and county expenditures
for locally performed public health services; and

WHEREAS, there is a need for the simplification of prac-
tices in determining the extent of local financial support
for public health activities; and

WHEREAS, it is the judgment of the General Assembly
that the Committee on Medical Care could provide a valu-
able study and recommendation on this question; now
therefore

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Committee on Medical Care be requested to give
detailed and adequate study to the question of establishing
a State public health policy as to the respective financial
responsibility of the State and of its several counties; and

Be it further resolved. That the Committee on Medical
Care report the results of its study to the Legislative
Council and to the General Assembly and include therein
recommendations for an equitable solution of this problem.

Approved May 6, 1953.

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