2062                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 261

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

Section 65C

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

65C.

(a)  (1) The State Administration shall establish and
implement and, as necessary, modify a program of general public
assistance to needy pregnant women who are not eligible for any
other State or federal category of direct cash assistance
payments.

(2)  The program shall provide State funded assistance
payments to women residents of this State who require assistance
between the [second] TIME THE PREGNANCY IS MEDICALLY VERIFIED and
THE sixth month of pregnancy.

(3)  The program shall be known as general public
assistance for pregnant women.

(b)  In order to be eligible for assistance under this
subtitle a woman shall provide IN WRITING medical verification of
pregnancy and verification of participation in a prenatal care
program.

(c)  Eligibility and all other requirements, not set forth
in this subtitle, shall be established by rules and regulations
promulgated by the State Administration.

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

Approved May 21, 1985.

CHAPTER 262
(House Bill 138)
AN ACT concerning

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