Ch. 356

LAWS OF MARYLAND

                    CHAPTER 356

(Senate Bill 472)

AN ACT concerning

Emergency Regulations - Preliminary Fiscal
Impact Statement

FOR the purpose of requiring that any emergency regulation
submitted for approval to the Joint Committee on
Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review be
accompanied by a preliminary fiscal impact statement
prepared by the unit submitting the regulation; and
providing for the required contents of the preliminary
fiscal impact statement.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - State Government
Section 10-lll(b)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - State Government
Section 10-1ll(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

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

Article - State Government

10-111.

(b) (1) The unit may adopt a proposed regulation
immediately if the unit:

(i) declares that the emergency adoption is
necessary;

(ii) submits the proposed regulation to the
Committee, TOGETHER WITH THE PRELIMINARY FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT
REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS SECTION; and

(iii) has the approval of the Committee for the
emergency adoption.

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