SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1541

located outside the State of Maryland or the political subdivision in
which the child resides, and if State aid has provided for that child's
education under the provisions of Section 241 of this Article, as
amended from time to time, the county in which the child resides
shall certify and pay the cost of his daily transportation during the
regular school year, and the State shall reimburse the subdivision
for providing this transportation from the General Funds of the State.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are repealed to the extent
of the inconsistency.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any portion of this Act is
held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the unconstitutionally or in-
validity do not extend to any other portion or portions of this Act,
and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1967.

Approved May 4, 1967.

CHAPTER 709
(House Bill 15)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 7 through 12, inclusive, of Article 59 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume and
1966 Supplement), title "Lunatics and Insane," subtitle "Insanity
as a Defense in Criminal Cases," and to enact new Sections 7, 8,
9,10, 11 and 12 in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the sections
repealed; to provide for filing of pleas of insanity; to authorize
and regulate commitment for examination as to sanity at the time
of offenses and as to competency to stand trial; to require the
rendering of a special verdict on sanity; to provide for commit-
ment of persons found to be not guilty by reason of insanity or
found not competent to be tried, to hospitals and mental institu-
tions, public corporate, or private, designated by the Department
of Mental Hygiene; to authorize dismissal of charges pending for
extended periods against persons found not competent to stand
trial and to provide for reports fey State's Attorneys and the De-
partment of Mental Hygiene with respect to such persons; to
prohibit acceptance of special verdicts where a plea of insanity
is not entered by the defense; to authorize out-patient examina-
tions for purposes of determining competency to stand trial; to
regulate the availability of bail to persons undergoing examina-
tion or found not competent to stand trial; to define the test for
insanity at the time of the commission of an offense; to provide
for supplemental findings as to present dangerousness of persons
found unfit to stand trial; to define the availability of the writ of
habeas corpus to persons committed for examination; to authorize
and regulate release upon conditions of persons committed pur-
suant to statute; and relating generally to the sanity or com-
petence of persons accused of crime.