HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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requires the recurring service of commercial laundering or
cleaning for the textiles.

326.

The tax hereby levied does not apply to the following
sales:

(bb) [The sale of or charges for telephone, telegraph,
or other telecommunication messages or service[-; provided
that this exemption shall automatically terminate, without
further action by the General Assembly, and such sales or
charges shall become taxable under this subtitle, to be
collected upon original statements and billings made on or
after the effective date of federal legislation reducing or
eliminating the rate of federal excise tax upon such sales
or charges, to one percent or less].] CHARGES FOR

COMMUNICATION SERVICES MADE BY A PERSON WHOSE CHARGES__FOR

ANY COMMUNICATION SERVICES ARE, OR, AS OF JULY 1, 1979,
WERE, OR WOULD HAVE BEEN, SUBJECT TO THE FEDERAL EXCISE TAX
IMPOSED BY SECTION 4251 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF
1954.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1979.

Approved May 29, 1979.

CHAPTER 427

(Senate Bill 115)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt — Renovation of
Lyric Theater

FOR the purpose of amending a certain section of Chapter 351
of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1974, as amended
by Chapter 602 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1976 and Chapter 912 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1978, to remove the provision that the
payment of any funds under the provisions of the former
Act, as amended, shall become be available contingent
upon the provision by Baltimore City of funds; altering
the amount of the original State loan; extending for a
certain period the time by which the Lyric Foundation,
Inc., or its successor in interest must present
evidence of the raising of certain funds; and providing
that certain grants shall be considered as part of
these funds.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,