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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 849

shall be construed only prospectively and the provisions of
this Act apply only to offenses committed on or after the
effective date of this Act, and may not be applied or
interpreted to have any effect upon or application to any
event or happening occuring prior to the effective date of
this Act; and the repeal or amendment by this Act of crimes
and offenses existing prior to the effective date of this
Act does not preclude the prosecution of persons who, prior
to the effective date of this Act, committed those crimes
and offenses as those crimes and offenses then existed.

SECTION 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1978.

CHAPTER 850

(Senate Bill 1177)

AN ACT concerning

Public Education - Handicapped Children

FOR the purpose of requiring that each county board of
education plan arid be responsible for the education of
school age children presently in day care centers under
jurisdiction of the Mental Retardation Administration;

permitting the State Superintendent of Schools, for a

certain period of time, to allow a child to remain in a
day care center under certain conditions; and generally
relating to the responsibility of the county boards of
education for the education of certain children.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Education

Section 8-404 (b) end 8-411(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

{As enacted by Chapter _____ of the Acts

of the General Assembly of 1978)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland

(as enacted by Chapter____ of the Acts of the General

Assembly of 1978) be repealed, amended, or enacted to read
as follows:

Article - Education

3-404.

(b) Each plan shall provide for the education of all