392                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 206

LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

32.01.03.01  Program Direction

General Fund Appropriation................

[[64,166]]

63,966

32.01.03.02  General Local Health Services

This appropriation for general health services in the
political subdivisions of Maryland is to be portioned
among the political subdivisions of Maryland by a
formula based on estimated total valuations of real
and personal property subject to local taxation as
the measure of each subdivision's ability to pay for
its health services. Such total valuations for each
subdivision shall be estimated by the State
Department of Assessments and Taxation and
certified to the State Commissioner of Health. An
estimated budget for minimum health services shall
be calculated for each political subdivision. Each
subdivision's share of its own minimum budget shall
be that percentage of half the total estimated
minimum budget of all subdivisions which that
subdivision's total estimated real and personal
property valuations bear to the total estimated real
and personal property valuations of all subdivisions.
Each political subdivision's share of the funds
available to the State Department of Health is the
difference between the total estimated budget for
that subdivision and that subdivision's
appropriation; however, no subdivision shall pay
more than 80% of its minimum budget nor less than
20%. The State Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
shall be responsible for acting on the portions of
plans and budgets which provide for mental health
services. The Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene shall be responsible for acting on plans and
budgets for all health services in each subdivision
and shall expend the same proportion of the State's
share for State approved programs that actual
expenditures, as established to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, made by
that subdivision for general health services bears to
that subdivision's share of the State approved
program, provided that all such expenditures do not
exceed the total amounts available under the
appropriations herein set forth. If any subdivision
appropriates and expends more than is provided
herein as its share of its estimated budget for
minimum health services, the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene is authorized, subject to
availability of funds under this appropriation, to
match such additional expenditures, provided that
the aggregate of State and Federal funds paid for
such additional expenditures shall not exceed 20% of
such additional expenditures. The Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene is authorized to
promulgate rules and regulations for the