HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 51

(House Bill 362)

AN ACT concerning

Health Care Cost Containment - Hospital Mergers and
Consolidations - Reporting Requirements

FOR the purpose of establishing certain additional reporting
dates to be met by the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene regarding efforts to accomplish voluntary closures,
mergers or consolidations and on regarding the exercise of
certain delicensure authority.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 109 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1985
Section 3

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

Chapter 109 of the Acts of 1985

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall report to the General Assembly by
December 1, 1985, JULY 1, 1986, AND EVERY 6 MONTHS THEREAFTER, on
the efforts to accomplish voluntary closures, mergers, and
consolidations where necessary, and on the need or lack of need
to exercise delicensure authority where the action is necessary.

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

Approved April 8, 1986.

CHAPTER 52

(House Bill 425)

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore County - Political Fund-Raising

FOR the purpose of authorizing politically partisan organizations
and political committees to have fund-raising affairs in
Baltimore County at which merchandise or cash prizes may be
awarded in any one game or spin by devices commonly known as
paddle wheels or wheels of fortune; making this Act an