WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 18-335 and 18-336, 18-336, 18-337, 18-338, and

18-601.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General

Section 18-213 and 18-601

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article - Health - General

Section 18-601

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health Occupations

Section 2-313(20) and (21), 3-310(20) and (21), 4-314(a)(24)
and (25) and (b)(13) and (14), 4.5-311, 5-311(a)(21)
and (22), 6-315(a)(25) and (26), 7-313(a)(12) and
(13), 8-313(b)(10) and (11), 9-314(11) and (12),
10-312(22) and (23), 12-311(b)(23) and (24),
13-315(19) and (20), 14-504(a)(27) and (28),

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requiring correctional institutions to develop certain
written procedures; requiring the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to establish and conduct a certain
educational program; requiring an individual who attends a
certain program to pay a reasonable fee set by the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that
certain health care providers may not refuse, withhold from,
deny, or discriminate against an individual with regard to
the provision of professional services for which the health
care provider is licensed because of physical or mental
handicap an individual is HIV positive; requiring certain
persons to complete a certain educational program under
certain circumstances; prohibiting a knowing transfer or an
attempt to transfer of the human immunodeficiency virus and
providing certain penalties; providing a certain effective
date for certain provisions of this Act; and generally
relating to human immunodeficiency virus.