SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act applies on or
after January 1, 2000 to the renewal of any policy, contract, certificate, or evidence of
coverage under a health benefit plan that a carrier issues or delivers in the State that
is in effect before October 1, 1999.

SECTION 4. 5. 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1 of Sections
1 and 3 of this Act shall take effect October 1, 1999.

SECTION 6 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 2 of this Act
shall take effect October 1, 2000.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided in
Sections 5 and 6 of this Act, this Act shall take effect June 1, 1999.

Approved May 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 580
(Senate Bill 607)

AN ACT concerning

Somerset County - Power Dredging for Oysters

FOR the purpose of allowing a person to requiring the Department of Natural
Resources to adopt regulations that establish certain zones in which a person
may power dredge oysters in certain waters of Somerset County under certain
conditions; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to designate a
certain area as an oyster sanctuary; prohibiting a person from catching oysters
in a certain oyster sanctuary or in a certain area closed to hydraulic clam
dredging; requiring the Department to adopt certain regulations to authorize a
certain program for the purchase of certain oysters, to reserve certain areas, and
to establish certain penalties; requiring a certain report; repealing certain
provisions of law allowing persons to power dredge oysters in certain waters of
Somerset County; repealing a certain termination provision of a certain Act;
providing for a delayed effective date for certain provisions of this Act; and
generally relating to power dredging oysters in Somerset County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Natural Resources
Section 4-1014(d) and (f)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.

Chapter 576 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997
Section 4

BY repealing