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receive, toward the cost of teachers, special equipment, nursing,
therapeutic treatment, and transportation, an amount not less than
eight hundred dollars ($800.00) ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($1,000.00) OF EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($800.00) per child
or the actual cost, whichever is less and such additional amount
per child as included for this purpose in the annual State
Budget as submitted to the General Assembly by the Governor
and subject to the power of the General Assembly with respect to
budget appropriation APPROPRIATIONS. The State Superintendent
of Schools shall ascertain the respective amounts the City of Balti-
more and the counties shall receive from the State under this section,
and when such amounts are so ascertained the State Superintendent
of Schools shall certify the same to the State Comptroller.

(c) Reimbursement of parents.—In the City of Baltimore or in
any county in the State which does not provide such special
classes PROGRAMS AND SERVICES or special instruction
for the education of mentally or physically handicapped children,
and such mentally or physically handicapped children attend a school
within or outside of the State of Maryland providing appropriate
instruction or receives RECEIVE appropriate special instruction
approved by the State Board of Education, the board of education in
the City of Baltimore or county in which the parents of such child
reside, provided such parents are bona fide residents of the State of
Maryland, will be reimbursed by the State of Maryland not less than
eight hundred dollars ($800.00) ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($1,000.00) EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($800.00) or the actual
cost, whichever is less for each such mentally or physically handi-

capped child each school year through the appropriated funds in

the public school budget and such additional amount per child as
included for this purpose in the annual State Budget as submitted to
the General Assembly by the Governor and subject to the power of
the General Assembly with respect to budget appropriations to assist
in paying the tuition and/or fees incident to the instruction of each
said handicapped child.

101.    Payments of amounts due.

It shall be the duty of the State Comptroller, upon receipt of each
such certificate from the State Board of Education, as provided for
in Section 100 hereof, to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer,
payable to such board of education or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore City, and for such sum as may be shown in such certifi-
cates, such warrants to be payable out of any available funds appro-
priated for that purpose, and the State Treasurer shall there