VETOES

Sincerely,

William Donald Schaefer

Governor

House Bill No. 1125

AN ACT concerning

Nursing Shortage Health Occupations -
Health Occupations— Shortage Projections

FOR the purpose of requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene State Board of Nursing Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to conduct certain surveys and make certain
projections of employment vacancy rates at certain hospitals
and related institutions; defining certain terms; requiring
the Secretary Board Secretary to annually report to certain
persons on the number and types of areas of shortage and the
projected statewide employment vacancy rates at hospitals
and related institutions; requiring certain boards and
commissions the State Board of Nursing certain boards and
commissions to provide the Secretary General Assembly, the
State Board for Higher Education, and the State Board for
Community Colleges Secretary with certain information;
providing for the termination of this Act; and generally
relating to estimates of nursing employment vacancy rates at
hospitals and related institutions.

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 1-204 7-205.1 1-204

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1986 Replacement Volume and 1987 Supplement)

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

Article - Health Occupations

1-204 7-205.1 1-204.

(A) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED:

(1) "HEALTH OCCUPATION" MEANS NURSES,

CYTOTECHNOLOGISTS, HOSPITAL PHARMACISTS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS,
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS, RADIATION TECHNOLOGISTS, AND RESPIRATORS
THERAPISTS WHO ARE LICENSED OR CERTIFIED UNDER THIS ARTICLE OR BY

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