HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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The phrase "subsequent violation of the same
provision" is substituted for the phrase "each
subsequent offense" to clarify that a subsequent
violation refers only to a violation of the same
provision. The attention of the General Assembly
is called to this substitution.

SUBTITLE 5. SHORT TITLE; TERMINATION OF TITLE.

8-501. SHORT TITLE.

THIS TITLE MAY BE CITED AS THE "MARYLAND NURSING HOME
ADMINISTRATORS LICENSING ACT".

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section presently appears as Art.
43, § 780.

The only changes are in style.

8-502. TERMINATION OF TITLE.

SUBJECT TO THE EVALUATION AND REESTABLISHMENT
PROVISIONS OF THE REGULATORY PROGRAMS EVALUATION ACT OF
1978, THIS TITLE AND ALL RULES AND REGULATIONS ADOPTED UNDER
THIS TITLE SHALL TERMINATE AND BE OF NO EFFECT AFTER JULY 1,
1983.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from Art. 43, § 780A.

As to the Regulatory Programs Evaluation Act of
1978, see Art. 41, § 484 et seq. of the Code.

GENERAL REVISOR'S NOTE:

The present provisions of Art. 43 that govern the
practice of nursing home administration provide that before
a nursing home administrator may practice in this State, a
nursing home administrator must be both licensed and
registered. The statutes then provide for periodic
reregistration, i.e., periodic registration renewal. On
analysis, the Commission to Revise the Annotated Code has
found that these provisions serve no substantive purpose
that could not be accomplished more directly by the pattern
followed under Art. 43 for the licensing of most other
health occupations. That pattern requires that the
practitioner have a license and renew the license
periodically. An auxiliary procedure under which the
practitioner also must be registered to practice and, which
then substitutes a periodic reregistration requirement for
the periodic license renewal requirement, is superfluous.
Moreover, the references to registration and reregistration
may mislead the nursing home administrator by implying that
the nursing home administrator's license is fundamentally
different from the license held by any of the other health
practitioners who practice under statutes without references
to registration.