PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 462

WHEREAS, Pursuant to federal law, including the Emergency Petroleum
Allocation Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-159), as amended by the Energy Policy and Conservation
Act (P.L. 94-163), the Maryland Energy Administration has extensive experience
administering the State set-aside program; and

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 12287 ended the federal petroleum pricing and
allocation controls, including the State set-aside on January 28, 1981; and

WHEREAS, The provisions of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973,
as amended by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, authorizing the implementation
of a State set-aside, terminated on September 30, 1981; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly responded to the termination of that Act by
enacting Chapter 364 of the Acts of 1982, which created a State Standby Petroleum Fuel
Set-Aside Program which can be activated upon declaration by the Governor of an
energy emergency to mitigate hardships and emergency conditions caused by a fuel
shortage; and

WHEREAS, The provisions of the State Standby Petroleum Fuel Set-Aside
Program were last extended by the General Assembly in 1991 and the Program will now
terminate on July 1, 1995; and

WHEREAS, It is in the public interest for the State of Maryland to establish and
maintain in a state of readiness a State standby set-aside program which can be activated
upon declaration of the Governor of an energy emergency to mitigate hardships and
emergency conditions caused by a fuel shortage; now, therefore,

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

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments

10-811.

This subtitle shall remain in effect only until July 1, [1995] 2000, and as of that date
is repealed, unless a later enacted statute extends that date.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1995.

Approved May 18, 1995.

CHAPTER 462
(House Bill 1013)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Health Care Access and Cost Commission - User Fee Assessment

FOR the purpose of making certain changes and modifications to provisions of law

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