Energy tax, termination date extended.............................................

Transfer tax, maximum allowable, termination date of increase
repealed; reduction over several years, added .............................

Procurement, minority business participation, goal increased;
bonding, solicitation, record keeping, and reporting requirements
altered; sunset and further study provisions added .........................

Psychiatric medication, administration to hospitalized person who
refuses, and clinical review panel provisions, termination date
extended..............................................................................................

Radon gas and asbestos abatement pilot program, funding provision
and termination date repealed..........................................................

Regulated shooting grounds, hunting Hungarian partridge on Sunday
permitted, and bag limits on mallard ducks repealed; termination
date of certain Sunday hunting provisions, repealed.......................

Schools for success challenge grant program, termination date
extended..............................................................................................

Security systems technicians, deadline for obtaining license by
persons already practising, delayed; termination date of licensing
and regulation provisions, extended .................................................

Self-employment assistance program, established to pay an allowance
in lieu of unemployment benefits to an individual to assist in
establishing a business and becoming self-employed ......................

Small Business Extension Service Center Program, termination date
extended..............................................................................................

State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program,
transfer from the Department of Personnel to the Department of
Budget and Fiscal Planning, termination date repealed .................

State Standby Petroleum Fuel Set-Aside Program, termination date
extended..............................................................................................

Talbot County -

Property transfer tax, increase in maximum allowable rate,
termination date altered ................................................................

Tax credit program for wages paid to qualified employment
opportunity employees and for child care for their children
provided or paid for by a business, provisions added .....................

Telecommuting pilot program for State employees, provisions added .

Unemployment insurance, maximum weekly benefit altered; basic
rate adjustments of employer's contribution, altered ......................

University of Maryland System, position accountability reports,
participation in statewide Financial Management Information
System as its accounting, budgeting, personnel, and payroll system,
and creation of positions by chancellor and presidents of
constituent institutions, provisions added ........................................

User fee assessments on third party administrators, provisions
altered; determination of total user fee assessment on classes of
payors, provisions added....................................................................

Voluntary noncontractual religious publication arrangements,
exemption from regulation by the Insurance Code, provisions
added ..................................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

65	1355
68	1361
116	1509
266	2103
335	2277
513	2939
349	2359
105	1460
332	2269
122	1691
323	2254
461	2650
485	2728
492	2812
487	2732
1	1
345	2337
462	2651
544	3150