PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 351

[65B.

(a)     The State Administration promptly shall establish and implement and, as
necessary, modify a program of general public assistance to employables. The program
shall provide State and locally funded assistance payments to employable residents of this
State, who temporarily require assistance.

(b)     The program shall be in effect in any political subdivision that elects to
participate and enters into an agreement with the State Administration that describes the
operation of the program in the subdivision and sets forth the financial responsibility of
each party to the agreement.

(c) (1) The State Administration shall adopt rules and regulations establishing
eligibility and other requirements not set forth in this section.

(2)     Support from children shall be considered as a potential resource and
the amount and availability shall be evaluated in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the State Administration.

(3)     An applicant for assistance may not transfer or assign property to
become eligible for the assistance at any time within the three years immediately before
filing the application for or receiving the assistance.

(4)     The Administration may not consider monetary or in-kind contributions
that are up to the difference between the State's standard of need and the sum of the
total grant and the amount of food stamps, whether received on a onetime or continuing
basis, as income or as a potential resource in determining:

(i) An individual's eligibility for assistance; or

(ii) The amount of assistance that an individual receives.]

Article - Family Law

4-402.

(a)     To implement the policies set forth in this subtitle, the Secretary shall
establish in each local department of social services a program of services to families with
children. The program shall be available to:

(1)     those families who are receiving [aid to families with dependent
children] TEMPORARY CASH ASSISTANCE or supplemental security income: and

(2)     those families whose gross income is 80% or less of this State's median
income adjusted for family size in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the
Social Services Administration.

(b)     For purposes of this subtitle, services to families with children are:

(1)     functional services to help a family resolve a situational crisis brought on
by catastrophe, deprivation of income, lack of shelter, physical illness, mental illness.
death, desertion, or abandonment;

(2)     family counseling:

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