Marvin Mandel, Governor                         725

Replacement Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle "Chapter
7. Handicapped Children," revising the provisions on aid for special
treatment for handicapped children, with particular respect to the
amount reimbursed by the State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 100(b) and (c) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Education,"
subtitle "Chapter 7. Handicapped Children," be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:
read as follows:

100.

(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 whose
needs are not met by ordinary school facilities, the city or counties
so providing the same shall receive, toward the cost of teachers,
special equipment, nursing, therapeutic treatment, and transporta-
tion, an amount of [eight hundred dollars ($800.00)] one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00) 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 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)    In the City of Baltimore or in any county in the State which
does not provide such special programs and services or special in-
struction 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 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 [eight hun-
dred dollars ($800.)] one thousand dollars ($1,000) 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 appropriations to
assist in paying the tuition and/or fees incident to the instruction of
each said handicapped child.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 22, 1970