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VETOES

Senate Bill 740, which was passed by the General Assembly
and signed by me on May 29, 1984, accomplishes the same purpose.
Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign House Bill 1475.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

House Bill No. 1475

AN ACT concerning

Environmental Health Practitioners Sanitarians

FOR the purpose of transferring with certain amendments Title 17
of the Health Occupations Article to be a new Title 5.5 in
the Health Occupations Article; changing references to

"Sanitarians" to "Environmental Health Practitioners

Sanitarians; changing certain educational, and work
experience requirements for certification as an
environmental health practitioner sanitarian; requiring
certain certification for certain environmental health
practitioners sanitarians; providing certain additional
duties for the Board of Environmental Health Practitioners
Sanitarians; providing the Board with certain powers to set
certain fees; requiring the Board to adopt a certain ethics
code; adding certain grounds for denial of certification or
certain other punitive actions; and generally relating to
the licensure and regulation of environmental health
practitioners sanitarians.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health Occupations

Section 17-101 through 17-310 and 17-312 through 17-317 to

be under the amended title "Title 5.5. Environmental

Health Practitioners Sanitarians"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

BY repealing

Article - Health Occupations
Section 17-303 and 17-311
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1981 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

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