WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 498

certain local government maintenance of effort funding requirements for
community colleges that must be satisfied in order to qualify for increases in State
funding.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Education
Section 16-303

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 16-403
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1989 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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

Article - Education

16-303.

(a)     The Commission shall determine and certify the amount that each county that
supports a regional community college shall pay as its share of the "county share"
required by § 16-403 of this title. The amount shall be determined by applying to the total
county share the ratio that the number of full-time equivalent students from the county
who attend the regional community college bears to the total number of full-time
students who attend the regional community college from all counties that support the
regional community college.

(b)     Each county that supports a regional community college shall bear as its share
of any borrowing for the regional community college the amount that results from
applying to the total amount of the borrowing the ratio that the county's population, as
determined by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, bears to the total
population of all the counties that support the regional community college.

1.6-403.

(a) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(1)     "Assessed valuation of real property" means assessed valuation of real
property as determined for purposes of the State aid calculated under § 5-202 of this
article.

(2)     "Board" means:

(i) In a county that has 1 or more community colleges, the board of
community college trustees for the county; or

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