PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 386
applications for permits and licenses, forms, plans, memberships, contracts, property,
investigations, administrative and judicial responsibilities associated with, and all matters
pending before, the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the Office for Children,
Youth, and Families as of July 1, 1997, shall continue in effect under the State
Department of Education until completed, withdrawn, canceled, modified, or otherwise
changed pursuant to law.
SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That any transaction of the
Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the Office for Children, Youth, and Families
affected by or flowing from any change of nomenclature or any statute amended,
repealed, or transferred, and validly entered into before July 1, 1997, and every right,
duty, or interest flowing from the statute remains valid after July 1, 1997, and may be
terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced as required or permitted by any
statute amended, repealed, or transferred by this Act as though the repeal, amendment,
or transfer had not occurred. If the change in nomenclature as to the interagency system
of comprehensive early intervention service for infants and toddlers involves a change in
name or designation of any State agency, the successor agency shall be considered in all
respects as having the powers and obligations granted the former agency.
SECTION 8. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, to the extent that all
contracts, agreements, grants, or other obligations entered into by the Maryland Infants
and Toddlers Program in the Office for Children, Youth, and Families before July 1,
1997, are valid, legal, and binding, but which under the terms of such obligations are to
continue in effect after July 1, 1997, those obligations are hereby declared valid, legal, and
binding obligations of the State Department of Education, enforceable in accordance
with their terms, and the laws of this State.
SECTION 9. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That:
(a) Pursuant to the transfer of the Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the
Office for Children, Youth, and Families to the State Department of Education that is
proposed by this Act, the publishers of the Annotated Code of Maryland, subject to the
approval of the Maryland Department of Legislative Reference, shall propose the
correction of any agency names and titles throughout the Annotated Code that are
rendered incorrect by this Act.
(b) To the extent necessitated by this Act, the Department of Legislative
Reference, in conjunction with the publishers of the Annotated Code, shall revise the
Annotated Code of Maryland in order to conform the Code to the transfer of the
Maryland Infants and Toddlers Program in the Office for Children, Youth, and Families
to the State Department of Education as required under this Act, and this statutory
revision shall be ratified by the passage of the Annual Corrective Bill of 1998.
SECTION 3. 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1997.
Approved May 8, 1997.
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