MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                          935

Chapter 7. Handicapped Children

99.    Handicapped children—Duty of boards of education; transpor-
tation to and from school or educational facility.

It shall be the duty of the boards of education of the several coun-
ties and Baltimore City to furnish to their respective health depart-
ments any information they may receive as to handicapped children
living within the boundaries of their school system. The health
departments shall recommend which such children need additional
diagnostic or treatment services and shall refer such children to
boards of education for evaluation. The boards of education shall be
responsible for the identification of such handicapped children in
need of special education services, and shall provide or arrange for
appropriate educational facilities and services. These facilities and
services shall include transportation during the regular school year
for handicapped children properly enrolled in any public school or
school maintained by any State agency or in any nonpublic educa-
tional facility, which nonpublic educational facility is approved as a
special education facility by the State Department of Education; if
the enrollment and transportation have been approved by the State
Superintendent of Schools. If this facility is 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 100 of this article, as amended from time to
time, the political subdivisions 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.

100.    Special treatment.

(a)    Rules and regulations for examination, classification and
education.—It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education, to
set up standards, rules and regulations for the examination, clas-
sification, and education of such handicapped children in the State
who can be benefited under the provisions of this subtitle; such stand-
ards, rules and regulations to include the prescribing of qualifica-
tions of teachers, the curriculum and equipment, and the supervision
of the program which may be inaugurated by the board of education
for each such handicapped child. The expenses incurred by any of
the school systems of the State in establishing special classes for
mentally or physically handicapped children in accordance with
standards, rules and regulations of the State Board of Education
shall be paid in the same manner as the ordinary expenses for the
support of schools in the several political subdivisions of the State;
provided that in calculating the cost of the minimum program as a
basis for determining the amount of the State's share of current
expenses which a county or the City of Baltimore is entitled to
receive, each professional st