(3) Characterized by a functional impairment that substantially
interferes with or limits the child's role or functioning in the family, school, or
community activities.

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

Approved May 13, 1999.

CHAPTER 447
(House Bill 706)

AN ACT concerning

Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation and Water Quality Plans -

Use of Information

FOR the purpose of requiring the supervisors of a soil conservation district to provide
the Maryland Department of Agriculture and the Department of the
Environment with any information in a soil conservation and water quality plan
for certain purposes; authorizing the Department of Agriculture to use the
information for statistical purposes and to release the information to a certain
government agency the Department of the Environment for a law certain
compliance or enforcement purpose; requiring the Department of Agriculture
and the supervisors to maintain plan information in a manner that protects the
identity of the person for whom the plan was prepared; and generally relating to
information concerning soil conservation and water quality plans.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Agriculture
Section 8-306(b), (c), and (d)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 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 - Agriculture

8-306.

(B) (1) THE SUPERVISOR SHALL MAINTAIN INFORMATION FROM A SOIL
CONSERVATION AND WATER QUALITY PLAN IN A MANNER THAT PROTECTS THE
IDENTITY OF THE PERSON FOR WHOM THE PLAN IS PREPARED. HOWEVER, THE
SUPERVISORS SHALL MAKE A SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATER QUALITY PLAN
AVAILABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR ENFORCEMENT