MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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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 and

Mental Hygiene is the dif-
ference 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
the State's share for State
approved programs that actual
expenditures, as established
to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene, made by that subdivi-
sion for general health ser-
vices bears to that subdivi-
sion's share of the State
approved program, provided that
all such expenditures do not
exceed the total amounts avail-
able under the appropriations
herein set forth. If any
subdivision appropriates and
expends more than is provided
herein as its share of its