Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority,
extension and renewal of management contracts to administer
programs, and Equity Participation Investment Program,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Telecommunications tax reform, including income tax credits for
property taxes, repeal of income tax exemption for local
telephone provider revenues subject to franchise tax,
itemization of franchise tax on local provider bill, and
reclassification of public utility property for property tax
purposes ..........................................................................................

Fraud - -

Food stamps, penalties increased .....................................................

Income tax, preparation of false return or refund claim by tax

preparer, criminal provisions altered ...........................................

Insurance Fraud -

Division, appropriation to ..............................................................

Motor vehicle insurance, false evidence of required security,
prohibitions and penalties added ..............................................

New titles added to Insurance Article recodification ..................

Prevention fee, applicability and times and method of payment,

provisions altered .......................................................................

Limited liability companies, formation by one person, amendment

to written operating agreement, dissolution and continuity,

conversion of sole proprietorship, and general and limited

partnership to limited liability company, and prohibitions

against fraudulent conveyances, provisions added and altered .
Medicaid health plan fraud or making false representations

relating to Medicaid health plans, criminal penalties and

statutes of limitation, established .................................................

Mortgage lenders and brokers, licensing and regulation,

provisions altered; Task Force to Examine the Mortgage

Lending Business, established ......................................................

Frederick County —
Alcoholic Beverages -

Special licenses for volunteer fire companies, with restrictions
on use of proceeds from sale of alcoholic beverages, provisions
added ...........................................................................................

Special Sunday Class A beer and Class A beer and wine opening
permit, created ............................................................................

Stadium beer on-sale license, issuance to owner of professional

baseball team franchise, provisions altered .............................

Bonds -

Public facilities...............................................................................

Community College, authority to borrow money to acquire

personal property for operation, provisions added ......................

Community development authorities, authority to establish and

issue bonds, provisions added .......................................................

Community services for Spanish speaking residents,

appropriation for ............................................................................

-5110-

INDEX

Chapter

Page

570	3145
629 630	3509 3518
131	1724
405	2633
3	83
33 35	743 745
649	3648
659	3795
713	4091
588	3235
29	596
30	599
28	595
76	1465
744	4243
517	2910
3	319