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

Approved April 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 269
(House Bill 818)

AN ACT concerning

Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Minority Access

Community Center

FOR the purpose of authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $450,000
$400,000 $325,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors
of Minority Access, Inc. for certain acquisition, development, or improvement
purposes; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a
requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; 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 Prince
George's County - Minority Access Community Center Loan of 1999 in a total
principal amount equal to the lesser of (i) $450,000 $400,000 $325,000 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.

(3) The cash proceeds of the sale of the bonds shall be paid to the Treasurer
and first shall be applied to the payment of the expenses of issuing, selling, and
delivering the bonds, unless funds for this purpose are otherwise provided, and then
shall be credited on the books of the Comptroller and expended, on approval by the
Board of Public Works, for the following public purposes, including any applicable
architects' and engineers' fees: as a grant to the Board of Directors of Minority Access,
Inc. (referred to hereafter in this Act as "the grantee") for the planning, design, repair,
renovation, and capital equipping of a building in Hyattsville, the building to be used
by Minority Access, Inc. as the Minority Access Community Center, a facility at which
there is offered a variety of services to the people of the surrounding area, and
including a community art center.