§ 13-1011

Maryland § 13-1011

• Jurisdiction: Maryland
• Article ghg: Health - General
• Title: 13

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(a) (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) 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) 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) 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.