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WHEREAS, In order to assure wise use of its resources, the
State must promote demographic, epidemiologic, and health
services data development on Alzheimer's disease and related
disorders; and

WHEREAS, A technique for obtaining the needed data has been
preeminently demonstrated on a limited geographic basis by
investigators of the Johns Hopkins University in the East
Baltimore study; and

WHEREAS, The State must arrange for extensions of these
studies to gather data representative of various populations,
including minority groups, age and sex categories, and rural and
urban communities, as well as to develop statewide projections;
and

WHEREAS, The State also must conduct in depth, focused
studies to follow up leads that will be opened by the basic
demographic, epidemiologic, and health services data; now,

therefore,

WHEREAS, The National Institute of Mental Health, in
cooperation with Johns Hopkins University, has conducted a study
of mental disorders at seven sites throughout the country
including East Baltimore, and this study has provided a data base
from which projections can be made about the Alzheimer's
population in the rest of the State; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shall
conduct , using existing data, a demographic, epidemiologic, and
health services data study of the prevalence and incidence of
Alzheimer's disease and related disorders that affect individuals
in this State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene shall use the 1970 study by Dr.
Morton Kramer of Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore as a
basis for the statewide study under Section 1 of this Act.

SECTION 3. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the
Department shall report its findings on the status of the
study         to the Governor and, subject to § 2-1312(b) of the State

Government Article, to the General Assembly when completed, but
not later than January 1, 1987 by January 1, 1987. The
Department shall deliver its final report of its findings to the
Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 1987.

SECTION 4. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1986.