State aid for education, "trigger provision" in the Bridge to
Excellence in Public Schools Act that makes the level of
additional funding dependent on the final status of a legislative

joint resolution, repealed ...............................................................

State share of basic current expenses, appropriation for ...............

Technology, appropriation for............................................................

Transition services for students with disabilities, provisions
altered; Interagency State Plan for Transitioning Students with

Disabilities, repealed......................................................................

Transportation, appropriation for.....................................................

Truancy Reduction Pilot Program, establishment authorized in
juvenile courts in Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and

Worcester counties; report required.............................................

Washington County -
Adequate public facilities, authority of county commissioners to

provide for by ordinance, provisions added ..............................

Building excise tax and transfer tax, use of revenues for
primary, secondary, or higher education capital expenditures;
use of transfer tax revenues for purchase of easements and
transferrable development rights using installment purchase
agreements, provisions added ....................................................

Public Service Commission —

Appropriation to.................................................................................

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

Environmental surcharge on electrical energy distributed to retail
customers in the State, termination date extended ....................

Gas service installations serving customers from liquified
petroleum gas storage tanks, jurisdiction of Public Service
Commission over, provisions altered ............................................

People's Counsel, appropriation to ...................................................

Regulations and orders, challenge of validity of regulation, and
challenge of decision to act by order rather than regulation,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

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 ........

Weatherization programs, merging of the two programs, report
required ...........................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

6	28
429	1737
429	1740
65	325
429	1739
551	2616
406	1472
398	1438
429	1604
	1794
430	1927
181	704
100	498
429	1605
	1800
99	496
487	2258
488	2278
430	1926