HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 416

(House Bill 487)

AN ACT concerning

Disabled Individuals - Rehabilitation Services

FOR the purpose of requiring certain health organizations and
health professionals to report to the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene within a certain time when they have
identified a disabled individual with a reportable
condition; providing that the report shall include certain
information dependent on whether the report is with or
without the individual's consent; providing that certain
information is confidential; requiring the Department to
develop and distribute a certain form with input from
certain individuals; requiring the Department to establish a
central registry of disabled individuals; requiring the
Department to notify the individual or the individual's
family within a certain time as to the rights of the
individual, the services available, and the eligibility
requirements; providing for the Department to refer the
individual to appropriate divisions of the Department and
other agencies; requiring the cooperation of other agencies
with the Department regarding services to the disabled
individual; and generally relating to rehabilitation
services for certain disabled individuals.

BY adding to

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Section 20-108

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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20-108.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2)   "DISABLED INDIVIDUAL" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH
ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS IN SELF-CARE, MOBILITY, HYGIENE,
VOCATION, FAMILY ROLE, OR COPING MECHANISMS.

(3)   "REPORTABLE CONDITION" MEANS A:

(I) SPINAL CORD INJURY;