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Employees in new permanent full-time positions, minimum
number required for business to qualify for property and income
tax credits in county with population under 30,000, provisions
Health benefit plans, waiting period or surcharge in lieu of
preexisting condition provision, provisions repealed; special
enrollment period, requirements added; plan cancellation or
refusal to renew, provisions altered..............................................
Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development
Assistance Fund and Board, established; amount of annual
funding for Forvm for Rural Maryland, provisions added ..........
Neighborhood Business Development Program, capital access
Self-Employment Assistance Program, termination provisions
Small group market health insurance, small employer eligibility,
criteria for determining employees, minimum participation and
renewal requirements, altered; report on group size effect on
HMO and PPO delivery systems and study on high deductible
health benefit plan for small employers, required ......................
Smoking —
SEE ALSO Cigarettes
Community health coalitions used to access local public health
grants, appropriation for organizing participation of African
American community.....................................................................
Oral Health Program to prevent and detect oral cancer, and
Prevent Oral Cancer Pilot Program, establishment and reports
required; oral cancer education programs to train health care
providers and promote smoking cessation, required ...................
Teacher Salary Challenge Program established and public school
funding enhancements added; Transitional Education Fund
established; Academic Intervention and Support Program
established; State aid provisions altered; use of Cigarette
Restitution Fund to fund programs, provisions added................
Tobacco use cessation aids, sales and use tax exemption added ...
Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program and Cancer
Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program,
established; funding through Cigarette Restitution Fund and
baseline study requirements, provisions added ...........................
Social Security —
Medicaid estate recoveries, exclusion of assets exempted under
long-term care partnership program, U.S. Congress urged to
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501
32
552
98
227
400
204
307
308
492
493
236
237
17
18
204
JR3
JR14
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2671
379
2898
699
1483
2187
1309
1844
1847
2588
2610
1504
1505
184
293
1249
3557
3573
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