Section 13-1011 - Local Public Health Tobacco Grant - Submission of program inventory; base-year funding. - Maryland Statutes

§ 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.]