Ch. 348                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 348
(Senate Bill 236)

AN ACT concerning

Education - Student Financial Assistance Economic Development Student Assistance
Grants - Mental Health Professional Grant Program Professionals

FOR the purpose of creating a Mental Health Professional Grant Program to be
administered by the State Scholarship Administration for certain students, altering
the Economic Development Student Assistance Grants Program by providing
assistance to certain students enrolled in certain programs leading to licensure or
certification as mental health professionals under certain circumstances; defining
certain terms; establishing certain criteria for grant applicants and recipients;
establishing certain requirements for recipients; and generally relating to a Mental
Health Professional Grant Program the Economic Development Student Assistance
Grants Program for mental health professionals.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Education
Section 18-101(a) and (b) 18-701
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Education

Section 18-2101 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 21. Mental Health
Professional Grant Program" Section 18-707

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article - Education

18-101.

(a) In this title, the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) "Administration" means the State Scholarship Administration.

SUBTITLE 21. MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL GRANT PROGRAM.

18-701.

(a) There is a program of Economic Development Student Assistance Grants
awarded under this subtitle for students who pledge to work in fields of geographic or
critical shortage in this State upon completion of their studies.

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