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Ch. 162 2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2002.
Approved April 25, 2002.
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CHAPTER 162
(Senate Bill 451)
AN ACT concerning
Maryland Health Care Foundation - Health Disparities
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Maryland Health Care Foundation to provide
financial support to programs that eliminate reduce health disparities for
Marylanders; requiring that the Foundation promote public awareness of the
need to provide certain care for Marylanders without health insurance and the
need to eliminate health disparities associated with poverty, gender, and race;
requiring the Foundation to develop certain criteria for awarding grants to
programs addressing health care disparities; requiring that the Foundation
consider a certain geographical balance and that the geographical balance
consider certain provisions; and generally relating to the Maryland Health Care
Foundation.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 20-502, 20-506(a), 20-507(a), and 20-508
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 20-506(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
(As enacted by Chapters 134 and 135 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
2001)
Preamble
WHEREAS, The United States ranks below most industrialized nations in
health status as measured by longevity, sickness, and mortality; and
WHEREAS, This poor ranking in health status is attributed in large measure to
the lower status of America's minority populations; and
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