2544                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 492

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of Employment and
Training to administer a financially assisted program of
youth work experience for certain economically disadvantaged
high school juniors and seniors and high school dropouts;
establishing certain eligibility criteria; providing certain
limits on hours to be worked; providing for a certain method
for distributing funds appropriated for the purposes of this
Act; providing for certain matching fund requirements;
establishing certain limits on use of funds appropriated
under this Act; establishing certain reporting and
assessment requirements; deleting a certain reference to
certain years restricting the use of State funds for certain
purposes; and generally relating to the provision of a youth
work experience program using State funds.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

Section 124

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

Section 126

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 100 - Work, Labor and Employment

124.

(a)  After receiving recommendations from the State council
and subject to the procedures in § 121(d), the Governor may to
the extent funds are available, implement for fiscal year 1984 a
pilot program of tuition reimbursements for the enrollment of
eligible unemployed workers in vocational or technical programs
in community colleges and State approved proprietary schools.

(b)   [For fiscal years 1984 and 1985, to] TO the extent that
State funds become available and subject to the procedures in §
121(d), after receiving recommendations from the State council
regarding the utilization of State funds to supplement federal
funds for employment and training services, supportive services,
and for related services such as training allowances and
stipends, the Governor may allocate an amount for such purposes
in accordance with State budget procedures.

126.