HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3283

planning; (3) the lack of internal coordination within the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the lack of
external coordination with other service providers and
Departments; (4) the fragmentation of funding and the lack
of substantial new money required to develop continuum of
care programs which must be in place before large numbers of
people can be moved out of institutions; (5) the absence of
hard data pertaining to the needs of the institutionalized
population, and the number and needs of those in the
community who are not receiving services; and (6) the
conflicting pressure to upgrade existing facilities while,
at the same time, deinstitutionalizing people; and

WHEREAS, Before any major change can occur, there must
be high level commitment to deinstitutionalization and
responsibility for implementation, planning and
coordination; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Governor and the Legislature recognize
deinstitutionalization as a high State priority; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to the
Honorable Harry Hughes, Governor; the Honorable Benjamin L.
Cardin, Speaker of the House of Delegates; the Honorable
James Clark, President of the Senate of Maryland, and
Secretary Charles R. Buck, Jr., Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, 210 West Preston Street, Baltimore, Maryland
21201; and Secretary Kalman R. Hettleman, Department of
Human Resources, 1100 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore,
Maryland 21201.

Signed May 12, 1981.

No. 11
(Senate Joint Resolution No. 62)
A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

State Educational and Other Qualified
State Employees - Tax Deferred Annuities

FOR the purpose of urging the Governor to organize a task
force to study the purchase of tax deferred annuities
on behalf of State educational and other qualified
State employees who qualify under the Internal Revenue
Code.

WHEREAS, Under § 403 of the Internal Revenue Code,
certain educational employees of public schools and the and
certain other qualified State employees are entitled to tax
deferred annuities; and