MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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boards of education for evaluation. The hoards of
education shall be responsible for the identification of
such handicapped children in need of special education
services, and shall provide or arrange for appropriate
educational facilities and services. These facilities
and services shall include transportation during the
regular school year for handicapped children properly
enrolled in any public school or school maintained by any
State agency or in any nonpublic educational facility,
which nonpublic educational facility is approved as a
special education facility by the State Department of
Education; if the enrollment and transportation have been
approved by the State Superintendent of Schools. If this
facility is located outside the State of Maryland or the
political subdivision in which the child resides, and if
State aid has provided for that child's education under
the provisions of § 100 of this article, as amended from
time to time, the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE political
subdivision in which the child resides shall [[ARRANGE,]]
certify and pay the cost of his [[transportation]] daily
OR OTHER REASONABLE TRANSPORTATION PURSUANT TO RULES AND
REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS, WHICH SHALL TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THOSE
HARDSHIP CASES THAT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL
EXPENSES TO GUARANTEE ADEQUATE TRANSPORTATION during the
regular school year, and the State shall reimburse the
subdivision for providing this transportation from the
general funds of the State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 703
(House Bill 627)

AN ACT concerning

Abortion Referrals

FOR the purpose of requiring abortion referral services
to register with the State Department of Health;
prohibiting [[referral to certain out—of—state
abortion clinics; prohibiting]] fee splitting; and
providing penalties for violations.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments,