HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Senate Bill No. 335

AN ACT concerning

Mental Retardation - Habilitation Plans

FOR the purpose of requiring every individual in or admitted
to any facility operated or licensed by the Mental
Retardation Administration to have an individualized
plan of habilitation; repealing a provision relating to
the review and approval, modification, or disapproval
of certain plans of care for mentally retarded persons;
and relating generally to habilitation plans for
mentally retarded persons in certain facilities.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 59A - Mental Retardation

Section 8A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

BY renumbering

Article 59A - Mental Retardation

Section 3(1) through (v), respectively

to be Section 3(m) through (w), respectively

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 59A - Mental Retardation

Section 3(1)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 59A - Mental Retardation

8A.

(a) On March 1, 1977, every individual in or admitted
to [a State residential] ANY facility operated or licensed
by the Mental Retardation Administration shall have an
individualized plan of [care] HABILITATION, including
training, appropriate therapeutic programs, and recreational
activities developed for him in writing by professional and