2150                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 640

(Senate Bill 701)
AN ACT concerning

Hospital Care Costs for Indigent and Medically-
Indigent Persons and Declaration of Estimated Income Tax

FOR the purpose of [[eliminating]] reducing the payments
by the counties and Baltimore City toward hospital
care costs for indigent and medically indigent
persons for the fiscal year 1975 and thereafter,
changing the date on or before which an amended
declaration of estimated income tax is required to
be filed and one—fourth of the estimated tax due is
required to be paid, providing for an appropriation
for the 1974-1975 fiscal year of the funds necessary
for the increase in State payments for the Medical
Assistance Program and relating generally to
reducing the payments by Baltimore City and the
counties for the hospital care of indigent and
medically indigent persons and increasing the State
payments to the Medical Assistance Program through
advancement of payment of a portion of estimated
income tax.

BY repealing and re—enacting with amendments.

Article 43 - Health

Section 42A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

[[BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 42A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) ]]

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 81 — Revenue and Taxes

Section 312(j)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 42A of Article 43 - Health, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume and
1973 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: