WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 4

SECTION 32. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an
emergency measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety, has been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take effect from the
date it is enacted.

Approved February 28, 1994.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 4
(Senate Bill 359)

Annual Curative Bill

FOR the purpose of generally curing previous Acts of the General Assembly enacted with
possible title or other defects; prohibiting a policy of a nonprofit health service plan,
a policy of accident or health insurance, or a policy of group or blanket accident or
health insurance from being denied and prohibiting certain limitations and
exclusions on coverage upon renewal solely because the insured has had a breast
implantation; altering the minimum cost of any school building, improvement,
supplies, or equipment for which certain county boards of education are required to
advertise for bids; requiring, rather than permitting, a court to award certain
reasonable and necessary expenses of prosecuting or defending certain proceedings
for alimony, alimony pendente lite, and modification and enforcement of an award
of alimony, under certain circumstances; requiring, rather than permitting, a court
to award certain costs and counsel fees in certain proceedings concerning child
custody, support, or visitation, or to recover child support arrearages or enforce a
decree of child support, under certain circumstances; exempting the Department of
Economic and Employment Development from certain requirements of the State
Procurement Law for negotiating and entering into certain private sector
cooperative marketing projects under certain circumstances; correcting a
cross-reference; requiring the Department to submit a certain annual report to the
General Assembly; establishing a Judicial Assistance Fund to fund the temporary
assignment of certain former judges; providing that the Fund is a special continuing,
nonlapsing fund that does not revert to the General Fund; requiring the Treasurer
to hold and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; providing for investment of
the Fund and earnings of the Fund; providing for audits of the Fund; authorizing
the Fund to receive funds from any source; providing for the termination of the
Fund; requiring certain court costs to be transferred to the Fund; providing for the
effect and construction of certain provisions of this Act; providing for the
termination of certain provisions of this Act; making this Act an emergency
measure; providing for the effective date of certain provisions of this Act; and
generally repealing and reenacting without amendments certain Acts of the General
Assembly that may be subject to possible title or function paragraph or other
defects, in order to validate those Acts.

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