1972                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 224

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 225

(Senate Bill 707)

AN ACT concerning

Social Services - Funeral Expenses for Public
Assistance Recipients

FOR the purpose of increasing the amount that a local department
of social services may pay for the reasonable funeral
expenses of certain public assistance recipients; providing
that the payment for funeral expenses for certain public
assistance recipients shall be charged to State funds; and
generally relating to funeral expenses for public assistance
recipients.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

Section 62A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

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

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

62A.

The local unit may pay the reasonable funeral expenses, not
to exceed [$400] $900 $650, of recipients of aid to families
with dependent children, general public assistance, public
assistance to adults, and on and after January 1, 1974 all
Maryland recipients of assistance payments from the federal
Supplemental Security Income Program under Title XVI of the
Social Security Act. Provided that any persons legally
responsible for the support of the decedent are unable to pay the
expenses, and that other resources, including available death
benefits or the estate of the decedent, are insufficient to pay
the funeral expenses. The cost of the payment shall be charged
[two thirds] to State funds [and one third to local funds].