Property tax assessment appeal hearings, postponement,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Rehabilitation practitioners, registration requirements added, and
Advisory Committee on the Registration of Rehabilitation
Practitioners established ...............................................................

Retail Electric Competition and the Restructuring of the Electric
Utility Industry, Task Force to Study, and advisory group,
established ......................................................................................

St. Mary's County -

Public road opening, closing, or alteration, procedures altered .

School board proceedings involving the suspension or expulsion of
students, use of hearing examiners, provisions added for Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Charles, Harford, Howard,
Montgomery, and Prince George's Counties and Baltimore City .

Victims' rights, including notification requirements, participation
in juvenile proceedings, disclosure of prior sexual conduct,
pretrial release, child testimony, testimony at parole or
sentencing proceedings, restitution, HIV testing, and domestic
violence reports, provisions expanded ..........................................

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -

Determination and notice of major service reductions, provisions

applicable solely to Maryland, repealed ...................................

Weapons possession and use by police outside transit facility
property, prosecution of criminal violations of Authority
regulations and reimbursement for damages, and notice and
hearing procedures for adoption of regulations, provisions

altered ..........................................................................................

Heating and Cooling —

Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration

Contractors, State Board of, appropriation to .............................

License fees for heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and

refrigeration licensees, reduced ....................................................

Licensing of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration

services by political subdivisions, provisions altered ..................

Staggered expiration of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and
refrigeration contractors' licenses and certificates, provisions

added ...............................................................................................

Higher Education - -

SEE ALSO Community Colleges; Medical Schools; State

Universities and Colleges
Authority to borrow money to acquire personal property for
operation granted to Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore,
Carroll, Cecil, and Frederick County Community Colleges and

Chesapeake College........................................................................

Goucher College, bond funds for .......................................................

Higher Education Investment Program and Board, established to
provide for a method of prepayment of tuition at institutions of
higher education in Maryland......................................................

324	2355
625	3494
106	1579
690	4003
120	1691
311 312	2212 2262
91	1495
699	4032
3	174
735	4168
566	3108
59	1372
744 360	4243 2493
110 111	1609 1624

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