(e) A local government may assert on its own behalf any common law or
statutory defense or immunity in existence as of June 30, 1987, and possessed by its
employee for whose tortious act or omission the claim against the local government is
premised and a local government may only be held liable to the extent that a
judgment could have been rendered against such an employee under this subtitle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall be
construed only prospectively and may not be applied or interpreted to have any effect
on or application to any judgment for punitive damages entered before the effective
date of this Act.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 1999.   

Approved April 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 178
(Senate Bill 397)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Washington County - Hagerstown YMCA

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,500,000
$500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the
Young Men's Christian Association of Hagerstown, Maryland, Inc. for certain
development or improvement purposes; providing for disbursement of the loan
proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a
matching fund; prohibiting the use by the grantee of the proceeds of the bonds or
the matching fund for sectarian religious purposes; and providing generally for
the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(1) The Board of Public Works may borrow money and incur indebtedness on
behalf of the State of Maryland through a State loan to be known as the Washington
County - Hagerstown YMCA Loan of 1999 in a total principal amount equal to the
lesser of (i) $1,500,000 $500,000 or (ii) the amount of the matching fund provided in
accordance with Section 1(5) below. This loan shall be evidenced by the issuance, sale,
and delivery of State general obligation bonds authorized by a resolution of the Board
of Public Works and issued, sold, and delivered in accordance with 8-117 through
8-124 of the State Finance and Procurement Article and Article 31, § 22 of the Code.

(2) The bonds to evidence this loan or installments of this loan may be sold as
a single issue or may be consolidated and sold as part of a single issue of bonds under
§ 8-122 of the State-Finance and Procurement Article.