FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to
submit a certain annual report to the Governor and to the General Assembly on
or before a certain date to the Chairman of the Senate Economic and
Environmental Affairs Committee, the Chairman of the House Environmental
Matters Committee, and the Cochairs of the Joint Commitees on Administrative,
Executive, and Legislative Review; specifying the content of the report as it
relates to certain resident-specific waiver authority of the Department under
the State for assisted living programs; providing for the termination of this Act;
and generally relating to the State assisted living programs.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 1-101(a) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health — General
Section 19-1805
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

1-101.

(a) In this article the following words have the meanings indicated.
(c) "Department" means the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
19-1805.

(a) The Department shall:

(1) Define different levels of assisted living according to the level of care

provided;

(2) Require all assisted living programs to be licensed to operate
according to the level of the program;

(3) Develop a waiver process for authorizing an assisted living program
to continue to care for an individual whose medical or functional condition has
changed since admission to the program to an extent that the level of care required by
the individual exceeds the level of care for which the program is licensed;

(4) Promote affordable and accessible assisted living programs
throughout the State;

(5) Establish and enforce quality standards for assisted living programs;