Businesses that construct or expand facilities and create new
permanent full-time positions, tax credits against local property
tax and State income tax, insurance premium tax, financial
institution franchise tax, or public service franchise tax,
provisions added .............................................................................

Cemetery Oversight, Office of, created; advisory council, Cemetery
Oversight Fund, registration and permitting of cemetery
operations and burial goods businesses, reporting, trust, escrow,
and disclosure requirements for sellers of preneed contracts,
goods and services, provisions added............................................

Collection of court costs, fines, restitution payments, probation
fees, and other judicial fees by private contractors, provisions for
pilot program added .......................................................................

Competitive Re-Engineering Pilot Program, established to create
a procurement process to allow State employees to compete with
private contractors to provide a targeted service........................

Criminal Sentencing Policy, Maryland Commission on,
termination date and report deadline extended ..........................

Deduction of rent for public housing from Family Investment
Program assistance payments to delinquent tenants,
termination date for provisions repealed .....................................

Drivers' license vision standards modified; restricted licenses
established for persons with low vision and for persons with
limited vision to replace the bioptic lens program ......................

Environmental Justice, Advisory Council on, established ..............

Evaluation of activities and units of State government, dates
established for third cycle of review, preparation of preliminary
evaluation reports, and waiver of evaluation, provisions added
and altered ......................................................................................

Family Day Care Provider Direct Grant Fund, termination date
extended ..........................................................................................

Fire, rescue, and ambulance funds, distribution of funds to
counties that fail to meet maintenance of effort requirements,
and disposition of undistributed funds, provisions altered.........

Health Care Access, and Cost Commission, evaluation of

committee and its regulations, requirements added ...................

Health Services Cost Review Commission Fund, termination date

extended ..........................................................................................

HIV Exposure in Maryland Correctional Facilities, Task Force to

Study, appointment, provisions added ..........................................

Insurance professionals, certificates of qualification, issuance,

expiration, renewal, and reinstatement, provisions altered .......

Kindergarten, exemption from mandatory attendance for children

enrolled in a child care program, termination date repealed .....

Maryland Tourism" Development Fund and Office of Tourism

Development, funding, spending, and annual report

requirements, added and altered ..................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

623 624	3481 3487
675	3874
359 640	2487 3627
409	2641
544	3009
433	2702
346 741	2439 4204
575	3165
328	2366
335 336	2392 2394
236	2011
238	2013
526	2957
656	3755
155	1783
471	2785