Ch. 404                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(f)      The term of office for the trustee who is a retiree of the State Police
Retirement System and who is serving as a trustee on June 30, 2003, shall end on July
31, 2006.

(g)     (1) The term of office for the individuals who are appointed on or before
June 30, 2004, by the Governor to serve as trustees as a result of the provisions of this
Act and who are not members of any of the several systems shall begin on August 1,
2003, and end on July 31, 2007.

(2) The term of office for the individual who is appointed on or after July
1, 2004, by the Governor to serve as a trustee as a result of the provisions of Section 2
of this Act and who is not a member of any of the several systems shall begin on August
1, 2004, and end on July 31, 2008.

SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 2 of this Act shall
take effect July 1, 2004.

SECTION 2. 6. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided in
Section 5 of this Act, this Act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 404
(Senate Bill 732)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Health Care Commission - Hospice Care - Prohibition

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the Maryland Health Care Commission from granting
a person that operates a hospice care program a statewide certificate of need or
authority to operate the hospice care program statewide through a Commission
ruling or determination; requiring the Commission to review certain rulings and
determinations for a certain purpose providing that a person may only operate a
general hospice care program under certain conditions; restricting the
jurisdictions in which a purchaser of a general hospice may provide home-based
hospice services; prohibiting the Maryland Health Care Commission from
issuing a certificate of need or a determination pursuant to an acquisition under
certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, in
consultation with the Commission, to specify the jurisdictions in which a general
hospice is authorized to provide home-based hospice services; prohibiting a
general hospice from being licensed to provide home-based hospice services in a
jurisdiction except under certain circumstances; providing for certain exceptions;
requiring the Secretary, upon a certain notification, to append to a general
hospice license additional jurisdiction in which a general hospice may provide
home-base hospice services; requiring the Secretary to use certain data in
making the initial specification of the jurisdictions in which a general hospice
may provide home-based hospice services; requiring the Commission, in

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