3622                                                      VETOES

This bill requires the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to require a nursing home or sheltered home for the
elderly to provide an in-service education program on dementia as
a condition of licensure.

House Bill 175, which was passed by the General Assembly and
signed by me on May 27, 1986, accomplishes the same purpose.
Therefore, it is not necessary for me to sign Senate Bill 142.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

Senate Bill No. 142

AN ACT concerning

Related Institutions and Sheltered Housing for Elderly -
In-service Education Programs on Dementia

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene and the Office on Aging to require certain related
institutions and providers of sheltered housing for elderly,
respectively, to have certain in-service education programs
on dementia; and generally relating to in-service education
programs on dementia for certain long-term care facilities
and programs.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 19-301(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General
Section 19-319.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 70B - Office on Aging

Section 1(e)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY adding to