PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 442

CHAPTER 442
(House Bill 290)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Partnership for Long-Term Care Program - Implementation

FOR the purpose of postponing implementation of the Maryland Partnership for
Long-Term Care Program until federal law allows a certain exemption from estate
recovery requirements for Program participants.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 513 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1993
Section 2

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

Chapter 513 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1993

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene shall apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the
Health Care Financing Administration for the Medicaid waivers necessary to implement
the provisions of this Act. HOWEVER, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
HYGIENE MAY NOT IMPLEMENT THE MARYLAND PARTNERSHIP FOR LONG-TERM
CARE PROGRAM UNLESS SECTION 1917 OF TITLE XIX OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
IS AMENDED TO EXEMPT FROM ITS ESTATE RECOVERY REQUIREMENTS THOSE
MEDICAID RECIPIENTS WHO ARE GRANTED A RESOURCES EXCLUSION UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 443
(House Bill 305)

AN ACT concerning

Child Pornography - Computers

FOR the purpose of expanding certain provisions of law relating to child pornography to
make them applicable to minors who are engaged as a subject in sadomasochistic abuse;
prohibiting a person from using a computer to compile, enter, print, publish,
reproduce, buy, sell, exchange, transmit, disseminate, or advertise certain data
relating to minors for the purpose of facilitating, encouraging, offering, or soliciting
certain sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse of or with any minor by means of a

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