Maryland Code, HEALTH – GENERAL 13-1112
Terms Used In Maryland Code, HEALTH - GENERAL 13-1112
- County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
(b) (1) Before receiving a Local Public Health Cancer Grant, a local health officer shall submit to the Department an inventory of all existing publicly funded cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers in the county that were identified under § 13-1109(c) 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.
(c) The level of funding specified under subsection (b)(2) of this section shall be the county’s base-year funding for cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.
(d) A Local Public Health Cancer Grant may not be used to supplant a county’s base-year funding for cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.
(e) The Department may not distribute a Local Public Health Cancer 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 cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.