HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2573

Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents -
Comparability

FOR the purpose of requiring that the Regional Institutes for
Children and Adolescents be comparable in programs and
facilities; repealing the requirement that the Prince
George's County Institute be comparable to the Montgomery
County Institute; prohibiting the reduction of the level of
State funding or number of authorized positions to the
Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in order to
attain comparability; and requiring the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene to report on comparability to the
Governor and General Assembly.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 10-406(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General
Section 10-406.1
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:

Article - Health - General

10-406.

(c) (1) The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
provide for a Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in
Prince George's County by July 1, 1983. [This Regional Institute
shall be comparable to the program operating at the Regional
Institute for Children and Adolescents in Montgomery County.]

(2)  The Regional Institute is a residential center
for severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.

(3)  The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
provide residential and day treatment programs for children and
adolescents from Prince George's County.

(i) The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
shall offer to contract the education program to the local
educational agency. The costs of the contract shall be
determined by using the same per pupil costs as is used in the