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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 421

1A.

(a)  The Income Maintenance Administration is established
within the Department of Human Resources'. The income maintenance
functions provided in the laws of this State for the Social
Services Administration are transferred to the Income Maintenance
Administration. The term "income maintenance function's" includes
all the powers, duties, and responsibilities provided for the
Social Services Administration in the following programs: aid to
families with dependent children and other related cash benefit
programs; general public assistance; general public assistance to
employables; public assistance to adults; emergency assistance;
food stamps- and medical assistance eligibility determinations.
References to the "Social Services Administration", "State
Department", or "State Administration" in the laws of this State
that concern income maintenance functions are deemed to mean the
Income Maintenance Administration.

(b)  The Secretary of Human Resources shall appoint a State
Director of Income Maintenance with the approval of the Governor.
The Director shall be the head" of the Income Maintenance
Administration and shall hold office at the pleasure of the.
Secretary of Human Resources. All powers, duties, and
responsibilities that pertain to income maintenance programs and
income maintenance personnel provided in the laws of this State
for the State Director of Social. Services are transferred to the
State Director of Income Maintenance.

[(c) The State Board of Social Services shall advise the
State Director of Income Maintenance on policy matters relating
to the programs referred to in subsection (a) of this section.]

[(d)] (C) The exercise of all authority, duties, and
functions vested in the Income Maintenance Administration or the
State Director of Income Maintenance under this article or any
other law of this State shall be subject to the authority of the
Secretary of Human Resources as set forth in Article 41 of this
Code or elsewhere in the laws of this State.

2.

(a) The [Secretary of Employment and Social
Services,] SECRETARY OF HUMAN RESOURCES, with the approval of the
Governor, shall appoint a competent person to act as the State
Director of Social Services, who shall be paid for his services
such compensation as may be provided in the budget. The State
Director of Social Services, hereinafter referred to as the
"State Director," shall be a competent person having adequate
training and practical experience in social welfare work; and
shall hold office at the pleasure of the [Secretary of Employment
and Social Services] SECRETARY OF HUMAN RESOURCES. The State
Director holding office on August 31, 1970, shall continue to
hold office at the pleasure of the [Secretary of Employment and
Social Services] SECRETARY OF HUMAN RESOURCES.