490                                 LAWS OF MARYLAND                         [CH. 162

valuations of real and personal
property subject to local taxa-
tion as the measure of each sub-
division's ability to pay for its
health services. Such total valua-
tions for each subdivision shall
be estimated by the State De-
partment of Assessments and
Taxation and certified to the
State Commissioner of Health.
An estimated budget for mini-
mum health services shall be
calculated for each political sub-
division. Each subdivision's
share of its own minimum
budget shall be that percentage
of half the total estimated mini-
mum budgets of all subdivisions
which that subdivision's total
estimated real and personal
property valuations bear to the
total estimated real and per-
sonal property valuations of all
subdivisions. Each political sub-
division's share of the funds
available to the State Depart-
ment of Health is the difference
between the total estimated
budget for that subdivision and
that subdivision's appropria-
tion; however, no subdivision
shall pay more than 80% of its
minimum budget nor less than
20%. The State Commissioner
of Mental Hygiene shall be re-
sponsible for acting on the por-
tions of plans and budgets which
provide for mental health serv-
ices. The State Commissioner of
Health shall be responsible for
acting on plans and budgets for
all health services except mental
health in each subdivision and
shall expend the same propor-
tion of the State's share for State
approved programs that actual
expenditures, as established to
the satisfaction of the State
Commissioner of Health, made
by that subdivision for general
health services bears to that sub-
division's share of the State ap-
proved program, provided that
all such expenditures do not ex-
ceed the total amounts available
under the appropriations herein
set forth. If any subdivision