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Children, Youth, and Families, Subcabinet for, and local interagency
coordinating councils, established; client information sharing plan
and implementation of family preservation services and
out-of-state placement plans, requirements added ..........................

Contested case hearings, provisions altered ........................................

Emergency medical services delivery, governance of State system,
altered; Emergency Medical Services Board and Emergency
Medical Services Advisory Council, created; Maryland Institute for
Emergency Medical Services System, Shock Trauma Center, and
National Study Center, provisions altered .......................................

Energy performance contracts, procurement provisions added..........

Environmental Service, Maryland, separated from the Department of
Natural Resources; personnel, powers, and organization, provisions
amended..........................................................................................

Information technology, uniform policies and standards for executive
agencies and development of a statewide master plan, provisions
added..................................................................................................

Maryland Insurance Administration, created and funded through
increased fees on licensed individuals; Insurance Fraud Division to
be established in the Attorney General's Office; payment of fees
and premium taxes by electronic funds transfer, provisions added .

Withholding of partial salary of department head upon

noncompliance with fiscal requirements...........................................

Administrative Hearings, Office of --

Appropriation to....................................................................................

Contested cases, delegation to, provisions altered..............................

Unemployment insurance benefit and employer obligation
determinations in the Department of Economic and Employment
Development, exemption provisions added; continuing exemptions

for agencies, provisions added..........................................................

Administrative Office of the Courts --

Appropriation to ...................................................................................

Administrative Procedure Act --

Contested cases, provisions revised......................................................

Hearing procedures under the State vehicle law, procedures revised
Admissions and Amusement Tax —

Admissions Tax Administration, appropriation to .........................................
Adoption —                                                                                               

Medical information contained in court or adoption agency records,
access by adoptee, provisions altered; contact with natural parents
through an intermediary for needed medical information,
provisions added .................................................................................

Notice of filing for adoption or guardianship by a local department of
social services, standard for determining reasonable good faith
effort, provisions added.....................................................................

Subsidy of an adopted child, continuation after the death or disability.
of the adoptive parent, provisions added .........................................

556	2778
59	1017
592	2911
477	2501
196	1397
120	1249
538	2680
8	502
8	309
	475
	484
	501
59	1017
30	962
8	299
59	1017
621	3040
8	318
231	1598
395	2134
101	1215

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