HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3405

Approved June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 560

(Senate Bill 870)

AN ACT concerning

Education - Parent Surrogates

FOR the purpose of defining certain terms dealing with
parent surrogates; granting public agencies authority
to request parent surrogates for certain children;
giving the State Superintendent of Schools authority to
appoint a parent surrogate in certain circumstances;
allowing requiring the State Board of Education to
adopt certain bylaws; granting limited immunity from
suits for civil damages filed by and on behalf of the
child entrusted to a parent surrogate; and generally
relating to the appointment of educational parent
surrogates.

BY repealing

Article - Education

Section 8-414

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Education

Section 8-414

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Education

8-414.

[(a) (1) In this section, the following words have the
meanings indicated.

(2) "Child" means an individual under the age
of 21.