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Ch. 17 2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene shall report to the Governor and the General Assembly, in
accordance with $ 2-1246 of the State Government Article, on the implementation of
the Maryland Children's Health Program Private Option Plan on or before December
1, 2003.
SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1 of this Act
shall take effect June 1, 2000.
SECTION 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 3 of this Act
shall take effect July 1, 2003.
SECTION 2. 7. 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided
in Sections 5 and 6 Section 5 of this Act, this Act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
Approved April 25, 2000.
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CHAPTER 17
(House Bill 1425)
AN ACT concerning
Cigarette Restitution Fund —Smoking ami-Cancer Reduction Act of 2000
Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program - Cancer Prevention,
Education, Screening, and Treatment Program
FOR the purpose of establishing a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program and
a Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program in the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that the programs shall be
funded as provided in the State budget with money from the Cigarette
Restitution Fund; authorizing the Legislative Auditor to audit the appropriations
and expenditures made for purposes of the programs; establishing a Surveillance
and Evaluation Component, a Statewide Public Health Component, a
Counter-Marketing and Media Component, a Local Public Health Component,
and an Administrative Component in the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Program; establishing a Surveillance and Evaluation Component, a Statewide
Public Health Component, a Local Public Health Component, a Statewide
Academic Health Center Component, and an Administrative Component in the
Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program; requiring the
annual budget bill to specify the amount of funding that is allocated to each of
these components; requiring certain baseline studies to be conducted; providing
that, with certain exceptions, certain components of this Act may not be
implemented until after the baseline studies have been completed; clarifying that
the Cigarette Restitution Fund may be used to fund the programs established
under this Act; requiring the annual budget bill to include a certain provision
relating to the Cigarette Restitution Fund: requiring the Department of Budget
and Management to include certain information relating to the Cigarette
Restitution Fund in the budget books each year; providing that certain parts of
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