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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 296

George's County, OR A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY
OR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

(b)  In this section, "operating deficit" means operating
costs less:

(1)  The greater of operating revenues or 50 percent
of the operating costs; and

(2)  All federal operating assistance.

(c)  Subject to the appropriation requirements and budgetary
provisions of § 3-216 of this article and upon receipt of an
approval of a grant application in the form or detail as the
Secretary shall reasonably require, the Department shall provide
for annual grants to Prince George's County [and], Montgomery
County, AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY OR PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY for a share of the annual operating deficits
beginning on July 1, 1984 of the local bus systems for bus
service that a local bus system provides after January 1, 1978 to
replace comparable bus service in each county OR MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION that the bus transit system of the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority operated prior to the
effective date of this section. The amount of comparable bus
service eligible for the Department's grants shall be limited to
the number of bus platform miles and platform hours previously
operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority on
the replaced service.

(d)  The Department's share shall equal 75 percent of the
operating deficit of a local bus system for bus service described
in subsection (c) of this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 13, 1986.

CHAPTER 296

(Senate Bill 124)

AN ACT concerning

Hospital Overcharges - State Health Services Cost Review

Commission Health Education and Advocacy Unit

FOR the purpose of requiring the State Health Services Cost
Review Commission to act as an advocacy unit of government

in a dispute concerning alleged hospital overcharges

establishing a Health Education and Advocacy Unit in the