624                              Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 257

99.

It shall be the duty of the boards of education of the several
counties and Baltimore City to furnish to their respective health
departments any information they may receive as to [handicapped]
children with mental, physical, and/or emotional handicaps 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 educa-
tion 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 educational 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 po-
litical subdivision[s] 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.

(a)    It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education, to set
up standards, rules and regulations for the examination, classifica-
tion, and education of such handicapped children in the State who
can be benefited under the provisions of this subtitle; such standards,
rules and regulations to include the prescribing of qualifications 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. In setting up such standards, rules
and regulations for children with emotional handicaps, the State
Board of Education shall seek the advice and guidance of the State
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and these two agencies
shall cooperate in the development of these standards, rules and
regulations. The expenses incurred by any of the school systems of
the State in establishing special [classes] programs for [mentally
or physically handicapped] children with mental, physical, and/or
emotional handicaps in accordance with standards, rules and regula-
tions of the State Board of Education shall be paid in the same man-
ner 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 staff member
employed in this work shall be included as an allowed professional
staff member in making the calculation.

(b)    Whenever the City of Baltimore or any of the counties of the
State inaugurate a special program of instruction under standards,
rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, to meet the
needs of any child whose handicap is physical, [or] mental and/or