Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard for retail electricity sales,
market-based renewable energy credit system, and Maryland
Renewable Energy Fund, establishment; study of impact of
wind-power facilities on birds and bats, provisions added ........

Special Loan Programs, appropriation to .......................................

Volunteer Company Assistance Fund -

Composition, funding, grants and loans from, uses, request for
money from, and reports, provisions altered............................

Low Interest Revolving Loan Account, provisions repealed .......

Use of loan repayments for providing grants to Maryland State
Firemen's Association for administrative expenses and grants
to widows and orphans, provisions added ................................

Lobbying - -

Public ethics law violation, stay of final order of Ethics
Commission pending judicial review, provisions altered ............

Local Government Mandates —

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..............................................

Expungement of police or court records when all criminal charges
against defendant are disposed of, court required to advise
defendant of right to expungement...............................................

Hazardous materials and facilities, security standards, analyses,
and measures, provisions added; fund established to administer
and enforce regulations..................................................................

Mass transit operating costs recovery from fares and other
operating revenues, report on performance indicators, audit of
operational costs and revenues, and farebox recovery
projections, termination date of provisions extended ..................

Montgomery County -

Sheriffs office, probationary period and collective bargaining
rights for deputy sheriffs and civilian employees, provisions
added ...........................................................................................

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Program or
alternative behavioral modification program, implementation
by elementary school that has a suspension rate of over 18[,]
requirements added .......................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

487	2258
488	2278
429	1762
430	1871
	1926
430	1926
430	1924
77	397
237	851
238	879
362	1322
504	2374
447	2081
403	1459
222	826