ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 305

(1)     the study required under subsection (a)(1) of this section; and

(2)     the plan required under subsection (a)(2) of this section.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That if any provision of this
Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid for any
reason in a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity does not affect other
provisions or any other application of this Act which can be given effect without the
invalid provision or application, and for this purpose the provisions of this Act are
declared severable.

SECTION 2. 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2004.

Approved May 11, 2004.

CHAPTER 305
(Senate Bill 756)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Carve-Out of Specialty Mental

Health Services

FOR the purpose of requiring prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene to exclude from ending the exclusion of specialty mental health services
from the program requiring Medical Assistance Program recipients to enroll in
managed care organizations without certain approval; repealing the authority of
the Department to contract prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene from contracting with a behavioral managed care organization to
provide specialty mental health services without certain approval; and generally
relating to specialty mental health services and the Medical Assistance
Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article—Health—General
Section 15-103(a)(1) and (b)(1) and (5)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Health—General
Section 15-103(b)(4) and (21)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

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