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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 777

(F) THE COMPTROLLER     MAY WITHHOLD FUNDS, AS

PROVIDED UNDER SUBSECTION (D), FROM ANY COUNTY     OR

BALTIMORE CITY THAT FAILS TO   COMPLY WITH SUBSECTION (E)
ABOVE.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved May 17, 1976.

CHAPTER 778

(House Bill 147 8)

AN ACT concerning

Children — Support Enforcement

FOR the purpose of requiring the Social Services
Administration to establish a program for recovery
of child support payments; establishing, within the
Administration, a Division of Child Support
Enforcement to complement the recovery program;
delineating the powers and duties of the Division;
enabling the Division to accept assignments of
certain rights in support; requiring certain persons
to assign rights in support to the Division;
providing for representation of the Division and
recipients of its services in certain actions for
recovery of support; modifying the provisions
relating to paternity proceedings to require that
blood tests be performed at approved laboratories;
to specify that support orders constitute a lien of
earnings; to require notice to the employer of the
defendant; and to provide for payments of the
ordered amount; and generally relating to
enforcement of child support obligations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A — Social Services Administration
Section 3(a) and (b), 5A, 13(c), and 48
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article 88A — Social Services Administration

Section 58

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1969 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)