HARRY HUGHES, Governor

The Honorable Melvin A. Steinberg

President of the Senate

State House

Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland
Constitution, I have today vetoed Senate Bill 143.

This bill requires any geriatric assistant who works in a
long-term facility to complete a course on dementia approved by
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

House Bill 176, 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 143.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

Senate Bill No. 143

AN ACT concerning

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene -
Instructional Unit on Dementia

FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene to include approve an instructional unit on dementia
in the training for certain geriatric aides assistants;
providing for a certain advisory committee to assist the
Department in developing approving standards for the
instructional unit on dementia; providing for the
appointment, composition, and final report of the advisory
committee; and generally relating to an instructional unit
on dementia for geriatric aides assistants.

Preamble

WHEREAS, The Governor's Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease
and Related Disorders studied problems resulting from persons who
suffer from Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; and

WHEREAS, In its final report on June 30, 1985, the
Governor's Task Force recommended that the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene add an instructional unit on dementia to its
curriculum for training geriatric aides assistants; now,
therefore,

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May 27, 1986