PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 675

relating to establishing a Community Services Trust Fund.

BY adding to

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments

Section 18-205

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 7-206 and 10-208
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing

Chapter 401 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1994
Section 2

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 401 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1994
Section 3

Preamble

WHEREAS, As of January 1, 1996, the Developmental Disabilities Administration
reports a waiting list of 4,986 individuals awaiting community services; and

WHEREAS, The Mental Hygiene Administration estimates that there are
hundreds of individuals presently confined to institutions only because more appropriate
community-based services are not available to them; and

WHEREAS, In 1994, the General Assembly passed legislation establishing a
Waiting List Equity Fund in the Developmental Disabilities Administration and a Mental
Hygiene Community-Based Services Fund in the Mental Hygiene Administration; and

WHEREAS, The establishment of a community services trust fund would be the
logical vehicle to provide a source of annual funding to the Waiting List Equity Fund and
the Mental Hygiene Community-Based Services Fund, resulting in additional moneys to
serve individuals on the waiting lists for community services on the lists of the
Development Disabilities Administration and the Mental Hygiene Administration; now,
therefore,

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

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