VETOES

program for the community colleges would be appropriate at this
time.

For these reasons, I have decided to veto House Bill 1362.

Sincerely,

William Donald Schaefer

Governor

House Bill No. 1362

AN ACT concerning

Health Manpower Shortage Training Grant Program

FOR the purpose of establishing a Health Manpower Shortage
Training Grant Program for community colleges for certain
students who graduate from certain educational programs
leading to licensure or certification in health occupations
determined to be in short supply; requiring the State
Scholarship Administration, in consultation with the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain
regulations and implement the Program; providing certain
eligibility requirements for community colleges; requiring a
certain computational procedure for calculating the amount
of grant an eligible community college may receive;
requiring the grant to be used for certain purposes;
requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to make
certain projections on the availability of certain health
occupations; requiring the State Scholarship Administration
to discontinue issuing new grants under certain
circumstances; requiring existing grants to continue for
certain students under certain circumstances; and generally
relating to the establishment of the Health Manpower
Shortage Training Grant Program.

BY adding to

Article - Education

Section 18-804.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

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

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