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LAWS OF MARYLAND
Ch. 180
CHAPTER 180
(Senate Bill 1011)
AN ACT concerning
Hospital Inpatient Care for Indigents —
Local Contributions
FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement that each county
and Baltimore City pay a certain share of the costs of
the hospital care of indigent and medically indigent
persons in the respective political subdivisions; and
repealing other provisions relating to these payments.
BY repealing
Article 43 - Health
Section 42A
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:
Article 43 - Health
[42A.
(a) Each county and Baltimore City during the fiscal
year 1971 and each year thereafter shall place on deposit
with the State Department of Health, funds equal to 20% of
the costs for the hospital care of indigent and medically
indigent persons in the respective political subdivisions,
to permit the State Department of Health to pay 100% of
current costs for the hospital care of those persons,
provided that for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1974,
and for each fiscal year thereafter the maximum amount of
payment by any county or Baltimore City shall not exceed one
half of the amount of payment actually paid for the fiscal
year beginning on July 1, 1973. The amount to be placed on
deposit with the State Department of Health for each fiscal
year will be that amount specified for the respective
political subdivisions in estimates to be furnished to the
political subdivisions by the State Department of Health
during the month of December immediately preceding the
beginning of the fiscal year concerned. Those estimates
will be based on the same considerations as those which are
incorporated in the calculations in the Governor's
recommended budget. Following the close of the fiscal year
for which the deposit is made, the State Department of
Health shall make a final calculation of the exact amount
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