Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                         711

LOCAL HEALTH OPERATION

10.01.02.01 General Local Health Services

This appropriation for general health
services in the counties of Maryland
is to be portioned among the coun-
ties of Maryland by a formula based
on estimated total valuations of real
and personal property subject to
local taxation as the measure of each
county's ability to pay for its health
services. Such total valuations for
each county shall be estimated by the
State Tax Commission and certified
to the State Board of Health. An
estimated budget for minimum
health services shall be calculated
for each county. Each county's
share of its own minimum budget
shall be that percentage of half of
the total estimated minimum bud-
gets of all counties which that coun-
ty's total estimated real and per-
sonal property valuations bear to the
total estimated real and personal
property valuations of all counties.
Each county's share of the funds
available to the State Department
of Health is the difference between
the total estimated budget for that
county and that county's appropria-
tion; however, no county shall pay
more than 80% of its minimum bud-
get nor less than 20%. The State
Department of Health shall expend
the same proportion of its share of
the estimated minimum budget in
any county, up to the total of its
share, that actual expenditures, as
established to the satisfaction of the
State Board of Health, made by that
county for general health services
bears to that county's share of its
estimated minimum budget, pro-
vided that all such expenditures do
not exceed the total amounts avail-
able under the appropriations herein
set forth. The State Board of Health
shall allow a transition period of not
to exceed five years from July 1,
1956, during which adjustments
from the 1955 fiscal year to the basis
of financial support outlined herein
shall be made in increments of twen-
ty percent (20%) each year. If any
county appropriates and expends