Ch. 351                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, if § 5-1203(aa) of the Natural
Resources Article as enacted by Section 1 of this Act, becomes effective on July 1, 1998, §
5-1203(b-1) of the Natural Resources Article, as enacted by Section 1 of this Act, shall be
abrogated and of no further force and effect.

SECTION 2. 3. 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That except as provided
in Section 3 of this Act, this Act shall take effect October 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 351
(Senate Bill 778)

Welfare Innovation Act of 1996

FOR the purpose of creating a Family Investment Program, including, a temporary cash
assistance component; repealing provisions relating to the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children program; renaming the Income Maintenance Administration
to be the Family Investment Administration; instructing the publishers of the
Annotated Code of Maryland to make certain corrections to the Code; changing
certain terminology; requiring the Secretary of Human Resources to implement and
supervise a certain program; requiring local departments of social services to
coordinate the delivery of certain services and administer a certain program;
providing for the allocation of certain funds for certain purposes to local
departments of social services; establishing certain eligibility standards for certain
benefits under the program; providing that the program include certain features;
providing for certain cash benefits; providing for certain changes in circumstances;
providing for a transitional assistance program; requiring the Secretary of Human
Resources to establish certain welfare demonstration projects and adopt certain
regulations; establishing a Joint Committee on Welfare Reform; providing for a
certain pilot project to be conducted jointly by the Department of Human
Resources, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Governor to provide
sufficient funds for certain assistance under certain circumstances; requiring the
establishment of a certain task force; requiring the Department of Human Resources, the
Department of Education, and certain other entities to establish a pilot project to
administer a certain program for preschool children; requiring the Secretary of Human
Resources to seek a certain evaluation of the Family Investment Program; providing for
the application of this Act; clarifying that the suspension of a driver's license or
privilege to drive for failure to pay child support is exempt from the general
limitation that a driver's license or privilege to drive may not be suspended for more
than one year; requiring that an individual be out of compliance with a certain court
order in order to suspend driving privileges; limiting the issues that may be raised at
a certain hearing; requiring certain employers, within a certain period of time, to
submit certain information concerning certain employees to the Secretary of Labor,

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