CHAPTER 161
(Senate Bill 247)

AN ACT concerning

Transportation Services - Fiscal Assistance - Repeal of Termination

Provision

FOR the purpose of repealing the termination date for a certain provision of law that
requires the Department of Transportation to provide annual grants to local
jurisdictions for a certain service and to determine the grants in accordance with
certain plans and that alters the limitation on the total amount of the grants;
providing for the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to certain
fiscal assistance for certain transportation services.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 2-103.5
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Chapter 687 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1996
Section 2

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

Article - Transportation

2- 103.5.

(a) Subject to the appropriation requirements and budgetary provisions of §

3- 216 of this article and upon receipt of an approval of a grant application in the form
or detail that the Secretary reasonably requires, the Department shall provide annual
grants for paratransit service provided by county or local governments, that is
complementary to fixed route service as required under the federal Americans with
Disabilities Act.

(b) The amount of the grants:

(1) Shall be determined in accordance with multiyear paratransit plans
approved by the Department or the Federal Transit Administration; and

(2) May not exceed a total of $4 million statewide in any fiscal year.

Chapter 687 of the Acts of 1996

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1996. [It shall remain effective for a period of 3 years and, at the end of June