2874                                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                                        Ch. 550

LICENSEE SHALL ALLOCATE .25 PERCENT OF THE MUTUEL POOLS TO THE
MARYLAND RACE TRACK EMPLOYEES PENSION FUND.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 551

(Senate Bill 615)

AN ACT concerning

Paternity Proceedings - Blood Tests

FOR the purpose of requiring, instead of permitting, the results
of blood tests to be received in evidence under certain
circumstances; providing for the securing of the court
appearance of the laboratory technician who made the test
for purposes of cross examination; allocating the costs
associated with the court appearance of the laboratory
technician; and generally relating to the use of blood tests
in paternity proceedings.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-1029

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter ___ (H.B. 1) of the

Acts of the General Assembly of 1984)

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

Article - Family Law

5-1029.

(a)  On the motion of a party to the proceeding or     on its
own motion, the court shall order the mother, child, and alleged
father to submit to blood tests to determine whether the     alleged
father can be excluded as being the father of the child.

(b)  The blood tests shall be made in a laboratory selected
by the court from a list of laboratories provided by the
Administration.

(c) The laboratory shall report the results of each blood
test in writing and in the form the court requires.