Maryland Code, EDUCATION 8-603
Terms Used In Maryland Code, EDUCATION 8-603
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- 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.
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(b) The Program shall provide and maintain:
(1) A pool of hearing aids in the Loan Bank to lend to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual who has no immediate access to a hearing aid;
(2) Testing and programming equipment for hearing aids in the Loan Bank;
(3) Supplies for repair and reconditioning of hearing aids in the Loan Bank; and
(4) Language and communication videos to be loaned to a parent or legal guardian of an eligible individual and resources that may be downloaded from a website that provide:
(i) Unbiased information about language and communication options to use with a deaf or hard of hearing child; and
(ii) Instruction on learning the language or communication options in item (i) of this item.
(c) (1) The Governor shall include in the State budget an appropriation to the Program of:
(i) $5,000 in fiscal year 2021; and
(ii) $300 in fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter.
(2) The appropriation in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be used to satisfy the requirement in subsection (b)(4) of this section.