Ch. 550                                       LAWS OF MARYLAND

Disability income benefits are not exempt if the judgment is for
necessities contracted for after the disability is incurred.

[(3)] (2) Professionally prescribed health aids
for the debtor or any dependent of the debtor.

[(4)] (3) The debtor's interest, not to exceed
$500 in value, in household furnishings, household goods, wearing
apparel, appliances, books, animals kept as pets, and other items
that are held primarily for the personal, family, or household
use of the debtor or any dependent of the debtor.

[(5)] (4) Cash or property of any kind equivalent
in value to $3,000 is exempt, if within 30 days from the date of
the attachment or the levy by the sheriff, the debtor elects to
exempt cash or selected items of property in an amount not to
exceed a cumulative value of $3,000.

(f) In addition to the exemptions provided in subsection
(b) of this section, and in other statutes of this State, in any
proceeding under Title 11 of the United States Code, entitled
"Bankruptcy", any individual debtor domiciled in this State may
exempt the debtor's aggregate interest, not to exceed $2,500 in
value, in real property or personal property.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
apply to any attachment or levy of property after the effective
date of this Act.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 25, 1989.

CHAPTER 550

(Senate Bill 63)

AN ACT concerning

Scholarships - Spouses of Deceased or Disabled Volunteer

Fire Fighters and Volunteer Ambulance

or Rescue Squad Members

Public Safety Personnel and their Families

FOR the purpose of establishing scholarship eligibility for
certain spouses of certain deceased or disabled volunteer
fire fighters or volunteer ambulance or rescue squad members

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