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Alcohol and drug abuse treatment for inmates, procedures,

regulations, funding, study, and report requirements added .......... 670 3804

671 3809

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Education, Board of, submission of reports detailing expenditures

to County Council, requirements added ....................................... 179 1583

Automated teller machines, study of feasibility of on-screen listing of
fees, requirements added................................................................... 205 1638

Banking institutions, frequency of examinations, requirements
altered; newspaper publication of summary of periodic reports of
financial condition, requirement repealed ....................................... 192 1614

Business Opportunities Sales Act, expanded and revised................... 517 2987

Campaign financing, threshold reporting requirements for
contribution receipts and expenditures applicable to a candidate
and political committee treasurer, minimum amounts increased ... 464 2812

Cancer registry, report of cancer patients by physicians and
freestanding ambulatory care facilities, and immunity from liability
of reporting health care providers and facilities, provisions added . 235 1703

Cemetery and Funeral Industry, Task Force to Examine the State's,

established.......................................................................................... 209 1649

Charitable giving task force, known as "Maryland Gives!",

established .......................................................................................... 383 2589

Child placement agencies, joint guardianship, custody, or other
long-term placement arrangements with a caregiver, provisions
added .................................................................................................. 552 3121

Community revitalization projects, transportation improvements,
report requirements added ................................................................          13 769

Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission, established . 593 3413

Comprehensive standard health benefit plan rate adjustments,
restrictions altered; report on feasibility of requiring carriers to
charge rates that are within 33 % of community rate, provisions
added; renewal of plans issued prior to July 1, 1996, provisions
clarified ............................................................................................... 288 1823

Contested case hearings, telephone or video conferencing, provisions

amended.............................................................................................         96 1343

Criminal Sentencing Policy, Maryland Commission on, created ........ 563 3212

Dairy Industry, Task Force on Maryland's, review of law and
regulations concerning length of time milk products may be kept
for sale, responsibilities added; reporting date and termination
date extended ..................................................................................... 324 1897

Deaf, Task Force on Funding for the Maryland School for the,

created ................................................................................................ JR4 3885

Diseases required to be reported to a public health officer by a

medical laboratory, list enlarged ....................................................... 103 1368

Disruptive student programs and discipline, provisions added ..........           4           6

5          13

Dredge material from Baltimore Harbor and commercial shipping
lanes, strategic plan for placement, identification of sites in the
upper bay, and environmental impact assessment of use of Deep
Trough, provisions added..................................................................         13 770

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