1082                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                                [Ch. 288

32.01.03.01 Executive Direction

General Fund Appropriation................ 180,257

32.01.03.02 General Local Health Services
This appropriation for general

health services in the polit-
ical 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 subdivi-
sion's ability to pay for its
health services. Such total
valuations for each subdivi-
sion shall be estimated by
the State Department of
Assessments and Taxation and
certified to the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene.
An estimated budget for minimum
health services shall be cal-
culated for each political
subdivision. Each subdivi-
sion's share of its own mini-
mum budget shall be that per-
centage 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 sub-
division and that subdivi-
sion's appropriation; however,
no subdivision shall pay more
than 80% of its minimum bud-
get nor less than 20%. The
Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene shall be responsible
for acting on plans and bud-
gets for all health services
in each subdivision and shall
expend the same proportion of