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WES MOORE, Governor Ch. 717

– 1 – Chapter 717 (Senate Bill 362)

AN ACT concerning

Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2024

FOR the purpose of altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and submit a certain independent evaluation; altering the prekindergarten per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the definition of a “Tier II child” and the school years during which Tier II children may enroll in a full–day prekindergarten program; authorizing prohibiting the State Department of Education to make certain alterations to enrollment from increasing copayment levels in the Child Care Scholarship Program in effect as of a certain date; altering the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for community colleges; altering the program of State aid to private nonprofit institutions of higher education known as the Joseph A. Sellinger Program; authorizing the Developmental Disabilities Administration to establish certain limits on certain goods and services provided to certain recipients; clarifying a certain calculation for State aid to certain institutions of higher education; authorizing or altering the distribution of certain revenue; specifying that a certain provision regarding interest earnings for certain special funds does not apply for certain fiscal years; repealing the requirement for the Governor to provide hard copies of the budget books; reducing certain commissions and fees for licensed lottery sales agents; repealing certain provisions that authorized certain offsets for administrative and operational expenses for the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Retirement Agency; requiring a certain percentage of the Maryland Transit Administration’s bus fleet purchases to be altering the date after which the Maryland Transit Administration is prohibited from entering into certain contracts to purchase buses that are not zero–emission buses; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund, including provisions related to the contents and sources of the funding, transfer of money from the Fund, and the methodology used to determine eligibility for disbursements from the Fund; imposing a transportation network company impact fee on passenger trips that originate in the State; requiring a transportation network company to collect the transportation network company impact fee from a passenger on behalf of a transportation network operator or pay the fee on behalf of a passenger; pledging certain revenues from a transportation network company impact fee to paying the principal of and interest on consolidated transportation bonds issued by the Department of Transportation; establishing a Transportation Network Company Impact Fee Account in the Transportation Trust Fund; requiring the Department to allocate the Transportation Network Company Impact Fee Account for certain transportation purposes; altering the sales and use tax rate on certain electronic smoking devices; altering the tobacco tax rate for certain tobacco products; altering the annual registration fees and surcharges for certain motor vehicles;