HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  3765

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect June 1, 1982.

Approved, June 1, 1982.

CHAPTER 716

(House Bill 1458)

AN ACT concerning

Federal Block Grants - State Determinations

FOR the purpose of establishing the policy of this State
regarding State determinations relating to federal
Federal block grants; providing for the roles of the
General Assembly, the Governor, and the Legislative
Policy Committee in implementing or administering block
grants or in transferring funds between block grants
when the General Assembly is in session and when it is
not in session; and generally relating to the policy of
this State regarding federal Federal block grants.

BY adding to

Article 15A - Budget and Fiscal Planning

Section 15A through 15D, inclusive and 15B, to be under

the new subtitle "Federal Block Grants"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, Recent enactments of the Congress of the
United States have changed Federal policies with respect to
the form of grants-in-aid to the states, the grants-in-aid
having been consolidated into "block grants", and

WHEREAS, The establishment of block grants has been
accompanied by major reduction in the funds appropriated by
Congress for the programs which were placed in the "block
grants", and

WHEREAS, The establishment of block grants, and the
funding reductions accompanying them, create the need for
major policy shifts and adjustments by the State of
Maryland, and

WHEREAS, The Federal statutes authorizing block grants
in some instances provide the State with discretion with
respect to participation in block grants through acceptance,