ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 418

CHAPTER 418
(House Bill 1438)

AN ACT concerning

Higher Education - Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program -

Eligibility

FOR the purpose of altering the eligibility requirements for the Edward T. Conroy
Memorial Scholarship Program to include certain students attending a
Maryland high school at the time of application or persons who graduated from
a Maryland high school within a certain time period; providing for the
termination of this Act; and generally relating to eligibility for the Edward T.
Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 18-601
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 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 - Education

18-601.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2)     "Disabled public safety employee" means a State or local public safety
employee who sustains an injury in the line of duty that:

(i) Precludes the individual from continuing to serve or be
employed as a State or local public safety employee; and

(ii) In the case of a volunteer member of a fire department or
ambulance or rescue company or squad, precludes the member from continuing to be
employed in the nonpublic safety occupation in which the member is engaged at the
time of the injury.

(3)     "Surviving spouse" means a person who has not remarried.

(4)     "State or local public safety employee" means a person who is:
(i) A career or volunteer member of a:

1.       Fire department;

2.       Ambulance company or squad; or

3.       Rescue company or squad;

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