Environmental regulatory functions, consolidation into one agency by
transferring those currently in the Department of Natural
Resources into the Department of the Environment .....................

Freestanding ambulatory care facilities, licensing and certificate of
need requirements, added ...............................................................

Health care practitioners, participation in the Medical Assistance
Program as a condition of certification or licensure, study and
report required...................................................................................

Heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration contractors,
experience requirements for examination for a master license or an
additional master restricted license, provisions altered ..................

Horse racing licensees, financial report filing deadline and form of
publication, requirements altered ....................................................

Hunting, 1-year gratis hunting license, issuance to residents under 16
who complete, a hunter safety course, provisions added .................

Insect Sting Emergency Treatment Program, established, including
certification of persons authorized to give injections ......................

Insurance agents and brokers, vending machine license for selling
personal travel, life, accident or baggage insurance through vending
machines, provisions repealed...........................................................

Marriage licenses, additional fee authorized in Washington and
Calvert Counties to fund domestic violence programs and shelters .

Master electricians, application deadline for license reinstatement,
altered; reapplication for inactive status, provisions altered ..........

Medical laboratory licensing standards, including proficiency testing
requirements, qualifications for laboratory personnel, and types of
waived or excepted tests, provisions generally amended; study of
arrangements between providers and medical laboratories
exchanging service for referrals, required........................................

Mobile seafood vendors, authority of Anne Arundel and Howard

Counties to license and regulate, clarified.......................................

Motor vehicle salesman's license, requirement that applicant post a

surety bond, repealed ........................................................................

Nursing license or certification, good moral character required of

applicant; grounds for disciplinary action, provisions amended .....

Occupational and Professional Licensing, Division of, appropriation

to ................................................................................

Optometrists, diagnostically and therapeutically certified,
certification requirements, quality standards, and scope of practice,
provisions added; continuing education requirements for licensed
optometrists, provisions altered ........................................................

Payment instruments, qualifications and bond requirements altered
for license to sell; dormant or inactive money orders, service charge
provisions added.................................................................................

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488	2734
499	2865
604 605	3431 3450
318	2246
75	1375
106	1462
551	3206
475	2691
454	2639
294	2178
465	2661
633	3563
414	2557
542	3145
7	466 556 587
521	2958
432	2596

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