Maryland Acts of the Regular Session (2014)
SB 172, Chapter 464
AN ACT concerning
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2014
FOR the purpose of authorizing certain funds to be used for certain purposes; setting a certain limit on the use of certain funds beginning with a certain fiscal year; authorizing or altering the distribution of certain revenue; establishing the date on which certain license fees are effective; creating a Maryland Amusement Game Advisory Committee; providing for the composition, chair, staffing, and duties of the Advisory Committee; prohibiting a member of the Advisory Committee from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; requiring a certain maintenance of effort of county support for a community college in order for a community college to receive a certain hold harmless component amount; eliminating a certain requirement that the Secretary of Human Resources notify the Joint Committee on Welfare Reform under certain circumstances; applying to charter counties certain provisions of law that authorize counties to impose a hotel rental tax; providing that under certain circumstances certain other laws prevail over the provisions that authorize charter counties to impose a hotel rental tax; requiring the appropriation of certain funds for certain purposes beginning with a certain fiscal year; altering the Joint Information Technology and Biotechnology Committee to be the Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Biotechnology; consolidating the Joint Advisory Committee on Legislative Data Systems and the Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government to be the Joint Committee on Legislative Information Technology and Open Government; providing for the duties of the committees; altering a certain reporting requirement; altering certain duties of the Office of Policy Analysis that relate to the formal revision of statutory law; altering the rate of certain commissions; repealing a certain authorization for the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to authorize the payment of certain bonuses and incentives; altering the allocation of certain local impact grants from video lottery terminal proceeds for certain fiscal years; requiring certain reports on the distribution of certain funds; requiring Baltimore City to establish a certain schedule for the distribution and expenditure of certain local impact grants from video lottery terminal proceeds; altering a certain reporting requirement for Baltimore City; requiring the Governor to include certain supplemental contributions in the budget bill in addition to certain required contributions for certain fiscal years or until certain conditions are met; requiring the Governor to increase certain supplemental contributions in the budget bill under certain circumstances; providing for the transfer of certain funds; providing for a certain calculation of local wealth for certain education aid purposes for certain fiscal years; making the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange subject to certain provisions of law, to the extent that the Secretary of Information Technology determines that a certain information technology project is a major information technology development project; repealing extending a limitation on the applicability, to certain fiscal years only, of a certain fee for a certificate of title for a rental vehicle; repealing certain authority for the Health Services Cost Review Commission and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain policies; requiring the Governor to reduce a certain assessment by a certain amount beginning with the State budget submission for a certain fiscal year; providing for the method of calculating the amount of the reduction; requiring the Commission and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to model the methodology used for calculating the reduction in a certain manner; requiring that certain other Medicaid savings also be used to reduce the assessment; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission for a certain fiscal year to include a certain additional amount in hospital revenue for a certain purpose when determining certain hospital rates; altering the rate of a certain assessment; repealing certain provisions of law establishing the Joint Committee on Health Care Delivery and Financing, the Joint Committee on Welfare Reform, and the Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services; authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission, for certain purposes, to include a certain additional amount in hospital revenue when determining hospital rates for a certain fiscal year; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to establish certain criteria; requiring that certain proposals for funding be developed in accordance with certain guidelines and submitted to certain entities for approval; requiring a certain committee to be established to review certain proposals and to make certain funding recommendations; authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission to act on certain proposals; authorizing the Department of State Police to donate a certain helicopter to a certain entity; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to perform a certain study and to report the results to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before a certain date; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to establish a Community Partnership Assistance Program; requiring certain funding for the Program for certain purposes; providing for the sources and permissible uses of the funding; requiring that certain plans be developed in accordance with certain guidelines; providing that certain guidelines contain certain criteria and specifications; providing for the submission and approval of certain plans; requiring the Commission to take action on a certain plan; requiring that certain preferences be given to certain plans or collaborations; altering the timing of certain increases in certain rates for payments to certain providers for a certain fiscal year; setting certain limits in increases in payments to certain providers for a certain fiscal year; authorizing the transfer of certain funds to the Department of Business and Economic Development to be used in a certain fiscal year as grants to supplement certain tax credits awarded under a certain film production activity tax credit program; requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to establish a certain workgroup in a certain manner to examine certain issues; requiring the workgroup to submit a certain report on or before a certain date; authorizing the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to contract with a consultant for a certain purpose under certain circumstances and subject to certain requirements of State procurement law; declaring the intent of the General Assembly; requiring the Comptroller to set a certain interest rate for certain taxable years for income tax refunds resulting from a certain judicial decision; requiring, under certain circumstances, a county to pay certain costs beyond a certain amount restricted in the State budget to implement a certain Court of Appeals decision; providing that a certain budgetary authorization represents a one-time allocation and provides no authority for certain actions without certain statutory or budgetary authority; authorizing the Department of the Environment to enter into a certain memorandum of understanding with certain counties to establish a certain alternative source of funding to be deposited in a certain fund; requiring certain counties to enter into the memorandum of understanding on or before a certain date; defining certain terms; making a conforming change; conforming changes; making certain provisions of this Act contingent on the taking effect of another Act; making the provisions of this Act severable; providing for the application and effective dates for certain provisions of this Act; and generally relating to the financing of State and local government.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Corporations and Associations
Section 1-203.3(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2007 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 7-301(f)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2013 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Criminal Law
Section 12-301.1(c)(5)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2012 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Criminal Law
Section 12-301.1(f)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2012 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Economic Development
Section 5-1204 and 10-523(a)(3)(i) and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2008 Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 16-305(c)(1)(i) and 5-202(d)(1), 16-305(c)(1)(i) and (d), and 17-104(a)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2008 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Education
Section 16-305(c)(1)(v) and 17-104(a)(4)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2008 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 2-302(b)(1)(xxiv) and (2)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2009 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 2-302(b)(3)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2009 Replacement Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Human Services
Section 5-316(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland (2007 Volume and 2013 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Local Government
Section 20-402
Annotated Code of...
