HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(a) Records, reports, statements, notes, or
information assembled or obtained by the State Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, the Maryland Commission to Study
Problems of Drug Addiction, the Medical and Chirurgical
Faculty or its allied medical societies, an in-hospital
staff committee, or a national organized medical society or
research group[, which] THAT are declared confidential by [§
1-1 of Article 43 of the Code] § 4-102 OF THE HEALTH -
GENERAL ARTICLE or § 14-602 of the Health Occupations
Article, are not admissible in evidence in any proceeding.

10-304.

(a) (3) "Qualified person" means a person who has
received training in the use of the equipment in a training
program approved by the toxicologist [of the office of the
Chief Medical Examiner of the Department of] UNDER THE
Postmortem Examiners COMMISSION and who is either a police
officer, a police employee, or an employee of the office of
the Chief Medical Examiner.

(b)  The chemical test of breath shall be administered
by a qualified person with equipment approved by the
toxicologist [of the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of
the Department of] UNDER THE Postmortem Examiners COMMISSION
at the direction of a police officer.

(c)  The blood shall be obtained by a qualified medical
person using equipment approved by the toxicologist [of the
office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the Department of]
UNDER THE Postmortem Examiners COMMISSION acting at the
request of a police officer. The chemical test of blood
shall be conducted by a qualified person using equipment
approved by the toxicologist [of the office of the Chief
Medical Examiner of the Department of] UNDER THE Postmortem
Examiners COMMISSION in a laboratory approved by [the] THAT
toxicologist [of the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of
the Department of Postmortem Examiners].

(e) For the purpose of establishing that the test was
administered with equipment approved by the toxicologist [of
the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the Department
of] UNDER THE Postmortem Examiners COMMISSION, a statement
signed by the toxicologist certifying that the equipment
used in the test has been approved by him shall be prima
facie evidence of the approval, and the statement is
admissible in evidence without the necessity of the
toxicologist personally appearing in court.

Article - Education

6-303.