Tax credits for wages paid and child care or transportation
expenses incurred by businesses in the employment of persons
with disabilities, study and report requirements added.............

Teacher certification by National Board for Professional Teaching
Standards, pilot program of State and local aid for; statewide
staff development plan, required ..................................................

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 ..........................................................................................

Various State agency report requirements altered and repealed ..

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 Suburban Sanitary Commission, Minority Business

Enterprise Programs, duration extended .....................................

Workers' Compensation -

Claims in construction trade industry, agreement through
collective bargaining to alternative dispute resolution system,
use of agreed list of health care providers for medical
treatment and examinations, return to work program, and

vocational rehabilitation or retraining program ......................

Weekly wage benefit for injured employee with multiple
employers, basis for, and liability for compensation, provisions

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

Rescue Squads —

SEE ALSO Ambulances; Emergencies
Charles County —

Disability benefits for volunteer fire company, rescue squad, and
mobile intensive care unit volunteers under length of service

award program, expanded .........................................................

Emergency Medical Services -
Personnel who act to resuscitate a person when a "do not
resuscitate" order ordinarily would apply, immunity from
liability and a finding of unprofessional conduct, provisions

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

Providers, licensure or certification, provisions added, and
regulatory authority transferred from State Board of
Physician Quality Assurance to Emergency Medical Services

Board ...........................................................................................

Fire, Rescue and Ambulance Services -

Appropriation for State aid for local .............................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

112 113	1640 1647
179	1828
629 630 5	3509 3518 345
311 312	2212 2262
491	2844
591	3258
350	2455
466	2776
195	1900
201	1912
3	188