Rental housing loans under the Maryland Housing Rehabilitation
Program and the Rental Housing Production Program, security
requirements altered ..........................................................................

Seafood and Aquaculture Loan Fund, use of loans to start seafood
processing or aquaculture operations, permitted; limit on amount
of loan, altered; minimum required investment by applicant,
decreased ............................................................................................

Special housing facility projects, Maryland Housing Fund authorized
to provide credit enhancement for, provisions added .....................

Underground Storage Tank Upgrade and Replacement Fund, loan
application deadline and termination date for fees and loans,
extended..............................................................................................

Unimpaired surplus, definition altered for commercial banks, raising
the lending limits ...............................................................................

Workforce Training Finance Fund, established to provide job training
loan assistance ....................................................................................

Lobbying —

Former general assembly members, prohibition on lobbying until one
session elapses after the member leaves office, provisions added ..

Gifts -

Admission to sporting, charitable, cultural, or political events for

General Assembly members, reporting requirements added;

lobbyist payment of expenses of State officials for speaking

engagements, notification requirements added ............................

Meals or beverages for State officials, disclosure requirements
added; $75 cumulative gift reporting threshold, provisions
altered .............................................................................................

Unsolicited gifts of nominal value costing over $15, acceptance by
State officials prohibited; lobbyists prohibited from knowingly
making gifts in violation of ethics law...........................................

Public Ethics, new Title 15 added to the State Government Article,
restating and recodifying the Maryland Public Ethics Law ............

Local Governments SEE Counties; Municipal Corporations
Long-Term Care —

Sacred Heart Hospital, bond funds for conversion of Frostburg
Hospital from an urgent care facility to a long-term care facility .

Lottery —

Agency -
Appropriation to ................................................................................

Surrender of State positions from the appropriated number for FY
1996, provisions added ...................................................................

INDEX

Chapter

Page

94	1432
118	1521
518	2953
601	3389
595	3372
610	3485
511	2934
550	3202
617	3513
618	3518
533	3001
201	1963
7	394
	548
	607
7	565

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