ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 203

CHAPTER 203
(House Bill 935)

AN ACT concerning

Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2003

FOR the purpose of altering a certain fee collected for certain identification of certain
vehicles authorized to transport alcoholic beverages; requiring that a certain
required audit report regarding the Maryland Economic Development
Corporation be submitted on or before a certain date each year; altering certain
provisions of law relating to funding certain functions of the Division of Labor
and Industry; altering the distribution of uncashed pari-mutuel tickets;
delaying a requirement that the State budget include a certain appropriation to
the Department of General Services to pay rent to counties, including Baltimore
City, for certain space occupied by clerks of the circuit courts; requiring
Baltimore City and the counties to provide certain funding for law clerks for
circuit court judges; requiring the State Court Administrator to establish a
surcharge of a certain amount on certain recordable instruments for the Circuit
Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund; altering the authority to use
the Law Enforcement and Correctional Training Fund for certain purposes;
requiring certain local jurisdictions to submit certain information to the
Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services regarding numbers of
inmates and costs of operation of local correctional facilities; requiring the
Department to deduct certain amounts from certain reimbursements otherwise
due the jurisdiction if a local jurisdiction fails to submit the information when
due; requiring that the State pay certain costs of a new or enlarged existing local
correctional facility if the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services makes a certain determination under certain
circumstances; requiring that the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services review and study each county's local correctional
facility population under certain circumstances; allowing certain minimum
required appropriations to be reduced to the extent certain reductions are made;
clarifying the calculation of certain State aid to community colleges, Baltimore
City Community College, and private institutions of higher education; altering
certain eligibility requirements for an institution to qualify for certain State aid
to private institutions of higher education; making a certain technical change
relating to the amount of certain payments by the State to certain institutions of
higher education; delaying certain distributions to certain institutions of higher
education; altering the amount of the fee collected by the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene for certain certificates and expanding the range of
certificates for which a fee is collected; requiring the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene to collect certain fees for the processing of an adoption, foreign
adoption, legitimation, or adjudication of paternity; increasing the amount of
certain fees collected by local health departments that is required to be
transferred to the General Fund of the State; altering the calculation of
reimbursement rates for certain community services providers serving
individuals with developmental disabilities; altering the required frequency of

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