employee's service with the Maryland Environmental Service AND NORTHEAST
MARYLAND WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY being included as part of the employee's
State service.

(d) For each participant under this section, the Maryland Environmental
Service, AND THE NORTHEAST MARYLAND WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY OR ANY
SUCCESSOR AGENCY, shall pay to the State [an] THE RESPECTIVE employer share of
the cost of the Program based on the State subsidy allowed under this subtitle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1999.

Approved April 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 74
(House Bill 195)

AN ACT concerning

Higher Education - Promoting Commercial Potential of Inventions of Public

Higher Education Institutions

FOR the purpose of establishing the circumstances under which public higher
education institutions in the State may deny inspection of certain records
relating to certain inventions owned by the institutions in order to allow the
institutions a certain time period to promote and protect the institutions'
inventions; establishing the circumstances under which public disclosure is
provided; and generally relating to the inspection of public records.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 10-618(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - State Government
Section 10-618(h)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: