Article - Business Regulation
Section 11-403(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Replacement Volume)

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

Article - Business Regulation

11-403.

(a) The Comptroller shall pay from the Special Fund an annual grant of:

(1) [$600,000] $825,000 to the Maryland Agricultural Fair Board to
promote State and county agricultural fairs and exhibits;

(2) $100,000 to Prince George's County to replace money formerly
received from the admissions and amusement tax;

(3) $40,000 to the Great Frederick Fair to support exhibition harness
racing with money for construction and maintenance of new stalls, track
maintenance, and purses;

(4) $50 to the City of Bowie for each day that the training facilities arc
open at the Bowie Race Course Training Center;

(5) $75,000 to the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation, Inc., to
promote and enhance statewide agricultural education; and

(6) an amount not to exceed $30,000 in Fiscal Year 1998 and $20,000 in
each fiscal year thereafter to the Great Pocomoke Fair, Inc. to support exhibition
harness racing with money for construction and maintenance of new stalls, track
maintenance, and purses.

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

May 27, 1999

The Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr.
Speaker of the House
State House
Annapolis MD 21401

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland Constitution, I have today
vetoed House Bill 345.

This bill repeals two circumstances in which a private review agent may
retrospectively render an adverse decision regarding preauthorized or approved
health care services. A private review agent may no longer retrospectively render an