HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2) The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
adopt rules and regulations for religious exemptions under this
subsection.

Article - Health - General

18-403.

(a)  Unless the Secretary declares an emergency or disease
epidemic, an individual may not be required to be immunized if
the individual objects to immunization because it conflicts with
the individual's, or, if the individual is a minor, the
individual's parent's or guardian's bona fide religious beliefs
and practices.

(b)  The Secretary shall adopt rules and regulations for
religious exemptions under this section.

[(c) The Department shall report to the General Assembly
by January 1, 1985 1987, the number of exemptions granted and the
incidence of diseases covered by the immunization requirement
within the exempt population and the population as a whole.]

Chapter 188 of the Acts of 1983

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1983. [It shall remain in effect for a
period of 2 years and, at the end of June 1985 1987, with no
further action required by the General Assembly, this Act shall
be abrogated and of no further force and effect and shall be
removed from the Annotated Code of Maryland.]

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

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 254

(House Bill 64)

AN ACT concerning

Correctional Officers - Death Benefits

FOR the purpose of paying a death benefit to a surviving spouse,
children, or designated beneficiary of a correctional
officer killed in the performance of duties after a certain
date; providing for scholarships for children of
correctional officers killed in the line of duty; providing
for retroactive effect of this Act; and generally relating