MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

1091

Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) be and they are hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 59A — Mental Retardation

26.

(b) The Department shall specify the time and
amount of payments. It may from time to time, modify its
orders as to payments, as circumstances may warrant. In
setting the amounts of payments, the Department shall
consider the financial means or abilities of the mentally
retarded person and responsible relatives or guardian,
and may agree to accept less than the [per capita cost of
care] CHARGES ESTABLISHED.

THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, THE
STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE SECRETARY OF BUDGET AND FISCAL
PLANNING SHALL AT LEAST ANNUALLY ADOPT A SCHEDULE OF
CHARGES FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO MENTALLY RETARDED
PERSONS UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE.

(c) The Department may, when appropriate, set the
rate of payments retroactively, for a period of not more
than (six] 12 months. The retroactivity may be set for a
greater period if the retarded person, his responsible
relatives, personal representative or other person having
financial information relative to the mentally retarded
person has failed or refused to disclose such information
to the Department.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three—fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1975.

CHAPTER 157
(Senate Bill 863)

AN ACT concerning

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