Health and Mental Hygiene, Task Force to Study the
Reorganization of the Department of, established; report
required ...........................................................................................

Health Care Foundation, audit and audit report required; return
of unspent State funds to Cigarette Restitution Fund,
requirements added .......................................................................

Health care services disparities based on minority and economic
status, reduction plan and reports required; higher education
curricula and continuing education requirements and programs
that address the disparity problem, provisions added ................

Hepatitis C, State Advisory Council on, established; reports
required ...........................................................................................

Historically black colleges and universities, appropriation for, and
report requirements .......................................................................

HIV testing of patients who refuse to consent to testing when
exposure between patient and health care provider or first
responder occurred, study and report required ...........................

Home- and community-based services waiver application for
person receiving nursing home services under the medical
assistance program, denial of waiver due to lack of funding,
prohibitions added; reports on promotion and use of waiver,
required ...........................................................................................

Homeland security funding and expenditures, report required .....

Hospices, jurisdictions in which a general hospice may provide
home-based hospice services, restrictions added; annual survey
of hospice programs, study and report of status of hospice
services, and update of State health plan's hospice chapter,
requirements added .......................................................................

Hotel rental tax, maximum rate for a code county in the Western
Maryland class, increased; distribution of receipts and reporting
requirements, altered .....................................................................

Human Resources, Department of, number of contractual
positions, restrictions added; reports required ............................

Indirect costs, annual report by Department of Budget and
Management, required ...................................................................

Informal kinship care, education of child and education funding
requirements; authority of provider to make educational
decisions for child, provisions added ............................................

Insurance producers, provisions for producer register, reporting of
appointment and termination, continuing education course and
examination review and approval, appointment of advisory
board, altered; continuing education course approval fee
repealed ...........................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

447	3031
202	1745
453	3074
149	1384
202	1672
143	1366
303	2291
202	1742
404	2874
42	1074
202	1623
202	1736
207	1915
35	1053