Domestic Violence -
Protection provisions, scope clarified and procedures amended; ex

parte orders and protective orders, provisions amended ............

Request for assistance and battered spouse program eligibility,
marital rape, warrantless arrest, notice to victim of rights and
sources of assistance, police reports, compelled spousal
testimony, arrest of protective order violators, and child abuse

definitions, provisions altered........................................................

Foster care permanency plans, provisions for development, altered .

Infants and Toddlers Program, appropriation to ................................

Involuntary termination of parental rights proceedings, public

defender required to represent indigent parents .............................

Marital property, valuation of retirement benefits in annulment or

divorce proceedings, provisions altered ............................................

Professional counselors-marriage and family therapists, certification
and regulation, provisions added; composition and function of the
State Board of Examiners of Licensed Professional Counselors,

altered .................................................................................................

Sibling visitation rights, provisions added ............................................

Standby guardian for a minor child of a parent significantly at risk of

dying or becoming incapacitated, provisions added.........................

Visitation rights, denial of or interference with by a party to a custody

or visitation order, authorized court actions altered .......................

Family Planning SEE Birth Control
Farmers SEE Agriculture
Farmland —
Agricultural Land Preservation -

Easements, release to construct dwelling for landowner or

landowner's child, provisions altered............................................

Fund, appropriation to......................................................................

Anne Arundel County -

Transfer tax revenues, dedication of a portion for agricultural land

preservation, provisions added......................................................

Caroline County -
Agricultural land in an agricultural preservation district, property

tax credit for, provisions added .....................................................

Fax Machines SEE Facsimile Transmission
Federal Government —
Dump trucks with new design configuration for heavier loads,
operation and registration, federal approval date and grandfather

periods extended ................................................................................

Group life insurance authorized for an association of federal

employees ...........................................................................................

Pari-mutuel wagering, federal excise tax on, or increase in federal
withholding on winnings from, congressional delegation opposition

requested ............................................................................................

Vending facilities operated under the Maryland Vending Program for
the Blind on federal military installations, sales and use tax
exemption, provisions added.............................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

469	2250
728 575 8	3232 2670 976
380	1996
653	2908
721 427	3203 2099
574	2659
610	2772
683 8	3064 822
96	1186
399	2028
677	3042
357	1919
JR7	3384
664 711	3014 3143