Ch. 386

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 386
(House Bill 82)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Education - Comprehensive Early Intervention Services for Infants and

Toddlers

FOR the purpose of transferring the authority for the interagency system of
comprehensive early intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families
from the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the Office of for Children,
Youth, and Families to the State Department of Education; making the Department
the lead agency for supervising and monitoring the program of intervention services
for infants and toddlers; requiring the Department to adopt regulations to
implement this Act; providing for the transfer of the functions, powers, duties,
equipment, assets, and liabilities consistent with a certain federal law, and the
employees of the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program, to the State Department
of Education; providing that certain employees of the Maryland Infants and
Toddlers Program shall be transferred under this Act without diminution of certain
employment rights, benefits, or status; providing for the continuity of the terms of
office of members of certain boards or other units, certain existing laws, regulations,
permits, and contracts, certain transactions, and certain obligations of the Maryland
Infants, and Toddlers Program: providing for certain corrections in the Annotated
Code of Maryland under certain circumstances; and generally relating to an the
interagency system of comprehensive early intervention services for infants and
toddlers.

BY transferring

Article 49D - Office for Children, Youth, and Families
Section 12

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

to be

Article - Education
Section 2-107 8-416
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting. with amendments,

Article 49D - Office for Children, Youth, and Families
Section 1(d)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education

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