HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $1,500,000 $1,250,000, the proceeds to be used
for State grants to certain public and other nonprofit
nursing homes for the construction, renovation, and
equipping of these nursing homes, including the reports,
plans, specifications, site improvements, surveys, and
programs in connection therewith; defining certain terms;
requiring certain information from grantees; requiring the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt
regulations, including regulations providing for continuing
information; placing limits on the amount of the grants;
providing that the State may recover a certain portion of
the State funds expended under certain circumstances; and
providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds
evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1)  The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur
indebtedness on behalf of the State of Maryland through a State
loan to be known as the Nursing Home Loan of 1985 in the
aggregate principal amount of $1,500,000 $1,250,000. This loan
shall be evidenced by the issuance and sale of State general
obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board of
Public Works and issued, sold, and delivered in accordance with
§§ 19 to 23 of Article 31 of the Code.

(2)  The bonds issued to evidence this loan or installments
thereof may be sold as a single issue or may be consolidated and
sold as part of a single issue of bonds under § 2B of Article 31
of the Code.

(3)  The actual cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall
be paid to the Treasurer and shall be first applied to the
payment of the expenses of issuing and delivering the bonds,
unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided, and
thereafter shall be credited on the books of the State
Comptroller and expended, upon approval by the Board of Public
Works, for the following public purposes, including any
applicable architects' and engineers' fees: for State grants to
public and other nonprofit nursing homes for the construction,
renovation, and equipping of these nursing homes, including the
reports, plans, specifications, site improvements, surveys, and
programs in connection therewith.

(4)  (a) For purposes of this Act, the following terms have
the meanings indicated.

(b)  "Department" means the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene.

(c)  "Facility" means a nursing home that is wholly
owned by and operated under the authority of: