WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor
Signed May 27, 1988.

No. 14

(House Joint Resolution No. 50)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Extended Day Care Programs for Medically Handicapped Adults

FOR the purpose of requesting the Governor to establish a Task
Force on Extended Day Care Programs for Medically
Handicapped Adults to study options the State has in
improving, coordinating and promoting opportunities for day
care programs for medically handicapped adults.

WHEREAS, The number of medically handicapped adults who
reach the age of 21 and leave the schools of Maryland is
increasing; and

WHEREAS, There is misunderstanding and misinformation
concerning appropriate day care programs for these medically
handicapped adults thus creating a need for coordination,
exploration, and identification of existing programs; and

WHEREAS, The lack of adult day care programs for medically
handicapped adults causes many parents to choose between their
continued employment and place their child in a residential
institution or to resign from their employment to care for their
adult child, thus losing - salary, economic, and retirement
benefits; and

WHEREAS, Providing extended day care for medically
handicapped adults will improve the quality of life for all
members of the concerned family; and

WHEREAS, The establishment of extended day care programs for
medically handicapped adults is cost effective for the State of
Maryland; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Governor is requested to establish a Task Force on Extended Day
Programs for Medically Handicapped Adults; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Task Force be composed of:

(1) (i) 3 members of the House of Delegates,
appointed by the Speaker of the House; and

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