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Statutes > Maryland > Health-general > Title-13 > Subtitle-10 > 13-1011§ 13-1011. Local Public Health Tobacco Grant - Submission of program inventory; base-year funding.
(a) Submission of program inventory.-
(1) Before receiving a Local Public Health Tobacco Grant, a local health officer shall submit to the Department an inventory of all publicly funded tobacco use prevention and cessation programs in the county that were identified under § 13-1008(b)(2) of this subtitle.
(2) The inventory shall specify the amount of county funds that are being spent on each of the programs included in the inventory.
(b) Base-year funding - In general.- The level of funding specified under subsection (a) (2) of this section shall be the county's base-year funding for tobacco use prevention and cessation programs.
(c) Base-year funding - Grant may not supplant.- A Local Public Health Tobacco Grant may not be used to supplant a county's base-year funding for tobacco use prevention and cessation programs.
(d) Base-year funding - Spending before Grant distribution.- The Department may not distribute a Local Public Health Tobacco Grant to a county unless the Department determines that the county will spend, in the applicable fiscal year, at least its base-year funding for tobacco use prevention and cessation programs.
[2000, chs. 17, 18.]
