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Liability Insurance on Rental Vehicles, Task Force to Examine,
established; rental vehicle insurance. requirements, provisions
altered ................................................................................................. 673 3817

Light rail and mass transit bus service, recovery of operating costs
from fares, exemption from requirements for new systems, and
authorization of cost payments, provisions added; video monitoring
system and public access restrictions on unattended light rail
vehicles, provisions added ................................................................. 655 3717

Lighthouse Preservation Special Fund, annual report requirements,
added .................................................................................................. 654 3694

Local boards of education, annual school budget and reports to local
government, requirements altered and applicable to Baltimore
City; local primary and secondary education funding requirements
under the maintenance of effort law, provisions altered ................ 175 1569

Long-term contractual employees, use by State government, study

and report requirements added........................................................ 347 2077

Lottery sales agents, failure to report income tax information relating
to winners, prohibited........................................................................ 505 2942

Management and Productivity, Council on, established, and annual
report requirements added ................................................................ 171 1555

Medical Assistance Managed Care Program -
Impact on primary care providers and freestanding facilities of laws
and regulations authorizing or requiring enrollment of medicaid

recipients into managed care plans, study required..................... 549 3113

Implementation and structural framework, quality standards,
inclusion of historic providers, solvency, and mental health
services, provisions added .............................................................. 352 2426

Montgomery County Conference Center facility, Maryland Stadium
Authority authorized to provide for development and construction 407 2655

Neighborhood and Community Assistance Program, established; tax
credits provided for contributions to program's projects ................ 636 3638

Neighborhood preservation and stabilization demonstration projects,
owner occupied residential property in areas in Baltimore City and
Baltimore County designated for participation in, property tax
credit and income tax credit provisions added ................................ 590 3407

New hire registry, task force to evaluate the burden on employers and
to increase voluntary registration of employers, establishment and
report required ................................................................................... 351 2370

Patient and Provider Appeal and Grievance Mechanisms, Task Force

to Study, established .......................................................................... 548 3107

Phragmites eradication and control, cost sharing program with

landowners, provisions added............................................................ 429 2716

Police, State and local, report on salary disparities and

competitiveness, required ..................................................................          13 969

Prepaid Tuition Savings Task Force, created to establish a program to
allow advance payment of undergraduate tuition at higher
education institutions in the State ....................................................         89 1211

Public higher education institutions engaged in research or
development, conflict of interest procedures and exemptions
altered to allow controlled relationships with the private sector ... 406 2649

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