Drug or alcohol treatment for qualified defendants and prisoners
as an alternative to incarceration, and local drug and alcohol
abuse councils and plans, provisions added; Maryland
Substance Abuse Fund, established.............................................

Economic Development Assistance Authority and Fund, funds
transfer from the former Smart Growth Economic Development
Infrastructure Fund ("One Maryland" program), and use for
financial assistance to fund qualified distressed county projects
and feasibility studies, provisions added......................................

Economic development financial assistance, procurement from
minority business enterprises of goods or services purchased
with assistance proceeds, requirements added; reports required

Electric and gas utilities, assessment of the restructuring of State
and local taxes on the utilities in light of competition and the
restructuring of the utility industries, report required...............

Electricity generating equipment property tax grant,
appropriation for ............................................................................

Exemption of Law Enforcement Officers' Pensions from Taxation,
Task Force on the, established; report required ..........................

Extended elementary education program, county grants,
requirements altered ......................................................................

Family Investment Program, appropriation for payments to local
jurisdictions....................................................................................

Federal grants to local agencies on aging under the Older
Americans Act, transfer of funds from Spinal Cord Injury
Research Trust Fund to the Department of Aging to supplement

Financial assistance from the Economic Development
Opportunities Program (Sunny Day) Fund or Maryland
Economic Development Assistance Authority and Fund,
recipient agreement to encourage procurement from minority
businesses with the funds, requirements added..........................

Foster care maintenance payments to local jurisdictions,
appropriation for ............................................................................

High performance buildings, property tax credit provisions added .
Highway User Revenues —
Amounts distributed to counties and Baltimore City in FY 2005,
provisions altered .......................................................................

Appropriation for distribution to ..................................................

Capital appropriation for distribution to......................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

237	851
238	879
216	810
449	2088
430	1927
429	1598
534	2524
430	1866
429	1705
430	1927
206	778
449	2088
429	1705
	1709
	1787
519	2452
430	1893
429	1647
429	1647