HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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

Article 15A - Budget and Fiscal Planning

36.

(A) The State Aid for Police Protection Fund is a
continuing grant, intended for and to be used exclusively to
provide adequate police protection in the subdivisions and
qualifying municipalities of this State, by State and subdivision
sharing of costs on an equitable basis within certain limits
related to population factors.

(B) Provided, however, that nothing herein shall be
construed as requiring a subdivision or qualifying municipality
to [appropriate or to] expend more for police protection than THE
GREATER OF:

(1) THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURES FOR POLICE PROTECTION, AS
DEFINED IN § 37 OF THIS ARTICLE, EXCEPT FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURES;
OR

(2) THE [the] sum of the amount received in State aid
under this program and local funds equal to that percentage of
the local wealth used in calculating the State share in basic
expenditures under the provisions of § 37(b)(1) of this article.

37.

(b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975, and
thereafter, the State shall pay to each subdivision, and to each
qualifying municipality, each year in the manner and subject to
the limitations and requirements hereinafter provided, an amount
determined as follows:

(3) Minimum Grant. The State shall pay to each

subdivision the amount, if any, by which the equivalent of $2.50

per capita exceeds the total payments determined under

subparagraphs (1) and (2). No subdivision for which the

population estimate is less than the population estimated for the
first year of this grant shall receive in any year a smaller
amount of State aid for police protection than it received in any
previous year [less 0.09% of the increase of the wealth base
between that previous year and the current year], provided it has
not reduced the level of expenditure for police protection which
entitled it to the amount of that previous year's grant.

(7) Minimum Payment in Certain Years. [For the
fiscal years ending June 30, 1983 and June 30, 1984, each] EACH
subdivision shall be paid that amount, if any, by which the grant
paid to the subdivision in the fiscal year ending June 30, [1982]
1984 exceeds the total payments determined under subparagraphs
(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6) of this subsection.