Ch. 133                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health Occupations
Section 8-206

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Health Occupations

8-206.

(a)     There is a Board of Nursing Fund.

(b)     (1) The Board may set reasonable fees for the issuance and renewal of
licenses and its other services.

(2) The fees charged shall be set so as to produce funds to approximate the
cost of maintaining the Board [ and contributing to the General Fund of the State] as
provided in subsection [(d)] (E) of this section.

(c)     The Board shall publish in its rules and regulations the fees that it sets.

(d)     (1) The Board shall pay all fees collected under the provisions of this title to
the Comptroller of the State.

(2) The Comptroller shall distribute[:

(i) 20 percent of the fees received from the Board to the General
Fund of the State; and

(ii) The balance of the fees] THE FEES RECEIVED FROM THE
BOARD to the Board of Nursing FUND.

(e)     (1) The BOARD OF NURSING Fund shall be used exclusively to cover the
actual documented direct and indirect costs of fulfilling the statutory and regulatory
duties of the Board as provided by the provisions of this title.

(2)     (i) The BOARD OF NURSING Fund is a continuing, nonlapsing fund,
not subject to § 7-302 of the State Finance and Procurement Article.

(ii) Any unspent portions of the BOARD OF NURSING Fund may not
be transferred or revert to the General Fund of the State, but shall remain in the BOARD
OF NURSING Fund to be used for the purposes specified in this title.

(3)     No other State money may be used to support the BOARD OF NURSING
Fund.

(f)      (1) The Chairman of the Board or the designee of the Chairman shall
administer the BOARD OF NURSING Fund.

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