Ch. 15

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

SECTION 22. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 4 of this Act may
not take effect until a similar Act is passed by the Commonwealth of Virginia; that the
Commonwealth of Virginia is requested to concur in Section 4 of this Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland by passage of a similar Act; and upon that event the Governor of
the State of Maryland shall issue a proclamation declaring Section 4 of this Act valid and
effective.

SECTION 23. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 5 of this Act
shall take effect upon the taking effect of Section 2 of Chapter 97 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1996.

SECTION 24. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided in
Sections 21, 22, and 23 of this Act, this Act is an emergency measure, is necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, has been passed by a yea and nay
vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, and shall take effect from the date it is enacted.

Approved April 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 15
(Senate Bill 115)

AN ACT concerning

Annual Curative Bill

FOR the purpose of generally curing previous Acts of the General Assembly with possible
title or other defects; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to work
with the Maryland Health Care Access and Cost Commission on development of a
certain bundled payment; ratifying the repeal of X 7-801 of the State Personnel and
Pensions Article by Chapter 347 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1996;
providing for the effect and construction of certain provisions of this Act; making
this Act an emergency measure; and generally repealing and reenacting without
amendments certain Acts of the General Assembly that may be subject to possible
title or function paragraph or other defects in order to validate those Acts.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Education
Section 22-201

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 1-201(c) and (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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