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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

No. 10

2.   Provide for authority at both local and State
level for the appropriate Executive powers that would
enable more meaningful decisions to be reached for the
provision of health care and services to the people;

3.  Return to State officials the authority for
determining the allocation of federal funds where they
are needed and in a manner that will be in the best
interests of the people in each state;

4.   Provide for simplified and efficient systems of
organization that will involve a minimum of bureaucratic
oversight, interference and "red—tape";

5.   Enable the Governor of each state and local
level governmental officials more input, authority and
jurisdiction over such agencies; and

6.   Any other amendments that will be beneficial to
the efficient, orderly operation of this governmentally
controlled system of health planning and development; and
be it further

RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to
the Maryland Congressional Delegation: Senators Charles
McC. Mathias, Jr. and J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; and Representatives
Robert E. Bauman, Clarence D. Long, Paul S. Sarbanes,
Marjorie S. Holt, Gladys N. Spellman, Goodloe E. Byron,
Parren J. Mitchell, and Gilbert Gude, House Office
Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.

Approved April 13, 1976.

No. 11

(Senate Joint Resolution No. 35)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

School Health Services

FOR the purpose of requesting that the State Board of
Education study and report on the provision of
emergency first—aid services to all public school
students.

There exists a reasonable expectation that emergency
first—aid is being provided in all public schools by
trained personnel. Many secondary schools do provide
first-aid services. Testimony before the Maryland
General Assembly, however, indicates that elementary
schools in some areas of Maryland do net provide this
service. This lack of adequate emergency first-aid
coverage to young children must be rectified; now,