HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                         2399

may not be grounds for prosecution for practicing social work
without a license.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved May 15, 1984.

CHAPTER 394

(House Bill 209)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Elderly Rental
Housing Program

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $5,000,000 $1,000,000, the proceeds to be used
as a grant to the Community Development Administration for
the purpose of providing deferred payment loans, subordinate
to other financing, to private or nonprofit sponsors,
counties, municipalities or local housing agencies
established pursuant to Article 44A under the Elderly Rental
Housing Program administered by the Community Development
Administration; making this Act contingent on the passage of
another Act; and providing generally for the issue and sale
of bonds evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1)  The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur
indebtedness on behalf of the State of Maryland through a State
loan to be known as the Elderly Rental Housing Program Loan of
1984 in the aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 $1,000,000.
This loan shall be evidenced by the issuance and sale of State
general obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board
of Public Works and issued, sold and delivered in accordance with
the provisions of §§ 19 to 23 of Article 31 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1983 Replacement Volume, as amended from time to
time).

(2)  The bonds issued to evidence this loan or installments
thereof may be sold as a single issue, or may be consolidated and
sold as part of a single issue of bonds under § 2B of Article 31
of the Code.