HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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kinds of insurance in the account. If the maximum
assessment, together with the other assets of the
Association in any account, does not provide in any one year
in any account an amount sufficient to make all necessary
payments from that account, the funds available shall be
prorated and the unpaid portion shall be paid as soon
thereafter as funds become available. The Association may
exempt or defer, in whole or in part, the assessment of any
member insurer, if the assessment would cause the member
insurer's financial statement to reflect amounts of capital
or surplus less than the minimum amounts required for a
certificate of authority by any jurisdiction in which the
member insurer is authorized to transact insurance. Each
member insurer may set off against any assessment,
authorized payments made on covered claims and expenses
incurred in the payment of such claims by the member insurer
if they are chargeable to the account for which the
assessment is made.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 600

(House Bill 79)

AN ACT concerning

Mental Retardation - Review of Individual Plans of
Care for Patients

FOR the purpose of providing that the Superintendent or
Director of a State residential facility may delegate
to certain individuals certain functions relating to
the review of individual plans of care for residents.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,