Ch. 392                                   2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 392
(House Bill 1000)

AN ACT concerning

Maryland Breast Cancer Research Fund Cancer Fund - Income Tax

Checkoff

FOR the purpose of establishing the Maryland Breast Cancer Research Fund Cancer
Fund within the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to be used to
provide grants for breast cancer research, prevention, and treatment; requiring
that all expenditures from the Fund be made only through an appropriation in
the annual State budget or through an approved budget amendment; requiring
the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain regulations;
requiring the Secretary to submit a certain report each year to the General
Assembly on the administration of the Fund; requiring the Comptroller to
include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary
contributions to the Fund and to include certain information in each individual
income tax return package; requiring the Comptroller to collect and account for
contributions made through the checkoff system and to credit the proceeds to
the Fund after deducting the amount necessary to administer the checkoff;
providing for the application of this Act; and generally relating to the Maryland
Breast Cancer Research Cancer Fund and an income tax checkoff for
contributions to the Fund.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 20-117

Annotated Code of Maryland

(2000 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article — Tax — General

Section 2-112 and 10-804(h)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1997 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

20-117.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

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