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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 444
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CHAPTER 444
(House Bill 532)
AN ACT concerning
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Osteoporosis Prevention and
Education Program Task Force
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to
establish a certain osteoporosis prevention and education program; specifying
certain purposes of this Act; requiring the Department to develop a certain
public education and outreach campaign, to develop certain educational
materials and professional education programs, and to develop, maintain, and
distribute a list of certain providers; establishing an Osteoporosis Prevention
and Education Task Force in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene;
providing for the composition of the Task Force; requiring the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene to designate the chairman of the Task Force;
requiring the Department to provide staff for the Task Force; requiring the
Department Task Force to conduct a certain needs assessment and to gather
certain data; requiring the Task Force to make certain recommendations to the
Department about certain osteoporosis initiatives; authorizing the Task Force to
hold public hearings and solicit information from certain persons; requiring the
Department annually to moke - a certain evaluation and to submit a certain
report; establishing on Osteoporosis Advisory Council in the Department;
providing the composition, authority, meeting procedure, staff, and
chairperson of the Council and the compensation, terms, vacancies, and removal
of its members; authorizing the Department to accept certain grants, services,
and property; requiring the Department to seek a certain federal waiver;
requiring the Task Force to carry out its responsibilities to the extent funding is
available; authorizing the Department to adopt certain regulations; defining a
certain term; and generally relating to a certain program Task Force concerning
osteoporosis in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 1-101(a) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 13-1601 through 13-1610 13-1606 to be under the new subtitle
"Subtitle 16. Osteoporosis Prevention and Education Program Task Force"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
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