S.B. 800

VETOES

Senate Bill No. 764

AN ACT concerning

Comptroller - Annual Grants - Agricultural Education

FOR the purpose of requiring the Comptroller to pay, from a certain special fund, an
annual grant of a certain amount to the Maryland Agricultural Education
Foundation, Inc., to promote and enhance statewide agricultural education.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Business Regulation
Section 11-403(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Business Regulation

11-403.

(a) The Comptroller shall pay from the Special Fund an annual grant of:

(1)     $600,000 to the Maryland Agricultural Fair Board to promote State and
county agricultural fairs and exhibits;

(2)     $100,000 to Prince George's County to replace money formerly received
from the admissions and amusement tax;

(3)     $40,000 to the Great Frederick Fair to support exhibition harness racing
with money for construction and maintenance of new stalls, track maintenance, and
purses; [and]

(4)     $50 to the City of Bowie for each day that the training facilities are open
at the Bowie Race Course Training Center; AND

(5)     $75,000 TO THE MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
FOUNDATION, INC, TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE STATEWIDE AGRICULTURAL
EDUCATION.

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

May 23, 1996

The Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr.
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis MD 21401

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