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BY adding to

Article 15A - Budget and Fiscal Planning

Section 3A 2A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 15A - Budget and Fiscal Planning

3A 2A.

(A)  UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THE BUDGET
BILL, IF FUNDS HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATED IN THE BUDGET BILL FOR
A NEW OR SUBSTANTIALLY RENOVATED FACILITY AND THAT FACILITY
DOES NOT BEGIN OPERATING ON THE DATE USED IN DETERMINING THE
AMOUNT OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED, TO THE EXTENT THESE FUNDS ARE
NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE SAME CLIENTS,
STUDENTS, PATIENTS, OR INMATES, THE OPERATING FUNDS
APPROPRIATED FOR THE NEW FACILITY SHALL REVERT TO THE
GENERAL TREASURY OR TO THE APPROPRIATE SPECIAL FUND AND MAY
NOT BE EXPENDED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE OR TRANSFERRED BY
BUDGET AMENDMENT.

(B)  IF THE FACILITY BEGINS OPERATING AT A SUBSEQUENT
DATE IN THE SAME FISCAL YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND
FISCAL PLANNING SHALL DETERMINE, ON A PRO RATA BASIS, THE
AMOUNT OF FUNDS TO BE REVERTED.

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

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 614

(House Bill 461)

AN ACT concerning

Nurse Midwives

FOR the purpose of deleting the present references to
"licensed nurse midwife" and "practice midwifery" in
"Title 7. Nurses" of the Health Occupations Article;
repealing certain licensing, regulatory, and penalty
provisions regarding the practice of midwifery;
defining a certain term; allowing nurse midwives to
practice midwifery under certain provisions concerning