MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        975

DOLLARS ($800.00) [to exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00)]
per child or the actual cost, whichever is less [except in special
cases where a child requires therapy or services in addition to
special instruction the State Board of Education shall determine the
amount of reimbursement to the city or county for such therapy,
services, and instruction for such child and such amount may exceed
six hundred dollars ($600.00), to be paid by the State of Maryland
out of a special fund to be appropriated for such purpose in the State
public school budget] such AND SUCH ADDITIONAL amount per
child as included for this purpose in the annual State budget as sub-
mitted to the General Assembly by the Governor and subject to the
power of the General Assembly with respect to budget appropriations.
The State Superintendent of Schools shall ascertain the respective
amounts the City of Baltimore and the counties shall receive from
the State under this section, and when such amounts are so ascer-
tained the State Superintendent of Schools shall certify the same to
the State Comptroller.

(c) 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 resides 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 [to
exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00)] for each such men-
tally or physically handicapped child each school year through
the appropriated funds in the public school budget] such 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 [; ex-
cept that in special cases where the child requires extensive therapy
or services in addition to special instruction the State Board of Edu-
cation shall determine the amount of reimbursement and such amount
may exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00)].

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having been
passed by a yea and