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SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved April 2, 1982.

CHAPTER 15

(Senate Bill 166)

AN ACT concerning

Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Definition
of Dependent Child

FOR the purpose of permitting the Secretary of the

Department of Human Resources to prescribe age and
education requirements by regulation in accordance with
federal law and regulations; and making this Act an
emergency measure.

FOR the purpose of altering the definition of dependent
child under the laws relating to Aid to Families with
Dependent Children; making technical changes; and
making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

Section 45(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

45.

(c) "Dependent child" means a needy person who [is
either (1) under the age of eighteen years or (2) under the
age of [ twenty-one years and (as determined by the Social
Services Administration in accordance with standards
prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare) is a student regularly attending a school, college
or university, or regularly attending a course of vocational
or technical training designed to fit him for gainful
employment,] (1) MEETS THE AGE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

PRESCRIBED BY REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN

RESOURCES 19 YEARS AND IS A FULL-TIME STUDENT ENROLLED IN A
PROGRAM AT A SECONDARY SCHOOL OR IN THE EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF