PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                               Ch. 62

Approved April 9, 1996.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 62
(House Bill 505)

Kidney Disease Fund

FOR the purpose of repealing the termination date of provisions relating to the Kidney
Disease Fund; providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to
the Kidney Disease Fund.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 13-310.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 404 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1992, as amended by Chapter

25 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1994
Section 2

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

Article - Health - General

13-310.1.

(a)     In this section, "Fund" means the Kidney Disease Fund.

(b)     There is a Kidney Disease Fund.

(c)     (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, the
Commission shall set by regulation reasonable fees to be paid by all certified kidney
dialysis and transplant centers as an additional requirement for annual certification.

(2)     The provisions of this section do not apply to:

(i) State-owned facilities; or

(ii) Hospital services under the jurisdiction of the Health Services Cost
Review Commission.

(3)     The fee set by the Commission may not exceed $1500 per year.

(d)     The Department shall collect the fee set by the Commission under subsection
(c) of this section and transfer the fee into the Fund.

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