Ch. 122

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

without affecting the authority or responsibility of the Department under the State
Finance and Procurement Article, the Commission shall:

(i) Review proposals for capital projects and improvements proposed
by the public institutions of higher education in this State, and by THE nonpublic
institutions of higher education THAT ARE MEMBERS OF THE MARYLAND
INDEPENDENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION AND THAT ARE seeking
State funds for capital projects and improvements MARYLAND INDEPENDENT COLLEGE
AND UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: and

(ii) Develop and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly
recommendations as to these projects, which shall be consistent with the plan provided
for in this section.

(4) In submitting recommendations pursuant to paragraph (2) of this
subsection, the Commission shall comment on the overall level of funding for higher
education and may comment regarding funding priorities among segments of higher
education and, within public senior higher education, among institutions. In reviewing the
various budgets and submitting recommendations thereon, the Commission:

(i) May not require, of any segment or institution, a detailed budget
presentation that tends to duplicate other presentations required in the budget process;
and

(ii) As to the funding priority of any institution, may comment only on
the entity as a whole and not on any separate unit of the institution.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved April 29, 1997.

CHAPTER 122
(House Bill 364)

AN ACT concerning

Education - Public Schools - Domicile

FOR the purpose of requiring, subject to certain exceptions, a child to attend a public
school in the county where the child is domiciled with the child's parent or
guardian; authorizing a county's superintendent to allow a child who is not
domiciled in the county to attend school in that county under certain circumstances;
making a child's parent or guardian subject to a certain penalty if the child
fraudulently attends a public school in a county where the child is not domiciled
with the child's parent or guardian under certain circumstances; and generally
relating to residency requirements for attending public schools in the State.

BY renumbering

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