2580                                  LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED,
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved May 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 278

(Senate Bill 499)

AN ACT concerning

The Practice of Nurse Midwifery

FOR the purpose of providing certain laws to govern the
practice of nurse midwifery until a certain date or
until certain regulations to govern the practice of
nurse midwifery become effective; providing for the
joint promulgation of rules governing nurse midwifery
under certain circumstances; generally relating to the
practice of nurse midwifery; and providing for the
emergency effectiveness of this Act.

Preamble

WHEREAS, Chapter 582 of the Acts of 1978 enacted
certain provisions of law regulating the practice of nurse
midwifery and included certain provisions providing for the
renewal of the licenses of midwifery licensed under the
previous law on the subject; and

WHEREAS, Chapters 8 and 9 of the Acts of 1981 enacted
certain provisions of law regulating the practice of nurse
midwifery and included certain provisions relating to the
practice of nurse midwifery by those who were licensed to
practice under the previous law on the subject; and

WHEREAS, Chapter 614 of the Acts of 1981 enacted
certain provisions of law regulating the practice of nurse
midwifery and repealed the previous law on the subject; and

WHEREAS, The provisions of Chapter 614 of the Acts of
1981 cannot be implemented until certain regulations are
promulgated; and

WHEREAS, Emergency regulations for the purpose of
implementing Chapter 614 of the Acts of 1981 were rejected
on January 14, 1982, by the Joint Committee on
Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review on the
grounds that they needed further work; and

WHEREAS, The practice of nurse midwifery is now being
undertaken without benefit of legal governance; and

Ch. 277
That this Act