WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

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requirement.

Occurred: Chapter 555 (House Bill 832) of the Acts of 1993.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 25 of Article
64A - Merit System of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed and reenacted, with
amendments, and transferred to the Session Laws, to read as follows:

[25.] 20A.

All county and/or municipal employees of county and/or municipal health
departments in this State who were so employed on June 30, 1956, and who, while so
employed, apply to the Secretary of Personnel for appointment under the State [merit
system] CLASSIFIED SERVICE on or before July 1, 1961, shall be so appointed, and shall
be classified in the job classification [under the State merit system which] THAT is
comparable TO or [which] COMPARES most closely [compares] with their last job
classification as a county and/or municipal employee of a county and/or municipal health
department of this State. All employees appointed to the State [merit system pursuant
to] CLASSIFIED SERVICE UNDER this section shall be given credit thereunder for the
years of service rendered in said county and/or municipal health departments for the
purposes of establishing compensation rates and the basic rates for vacation and sick
leave credit earnings. No such employee who has transferred from a county and/or
municipal health department to the State [merit system] CLASSIFIED SERVICE shall
receive any diminution in compensation solely as a result of such transfer and
appointment.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Function paragraph of bill being cured indicated that Article 64A, §
25 was being amended and transferred to the Session Laws, but § 25 did not
appear in the body of the bill.

Occurred: Chapter 10, § 9 (Senate Bill 50) of the Acts of 1993.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings

1-302.1.

(a) (1) There is established a Judicial Assistance Fund.

(2)     The Fund is a special continuing, nonlapsing Fund that is not subject to
§ 7-302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

(3)     The Treasurer shall separately hold, and the Comptroller shall account
for, the Fund.

(4)     The Fund shall be invested and reinvested in the same manner as other
State funds.

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