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Visiting students take classes for credit to transfer back to their home school , to meet professional certification requirements , to take a course for personal enrichment , or for better job opportunities . From more restricted roles centered on the home , war brought women out into the workforce , into support roles on the home front , to the front lines , and to anti-war protest rallies . Requiring a nursing home with more than a 50 % annual turnover of direct care nursing staff to establish a program for staff retention ; requiring the use of a questionnaire ; requiring a specified review twice a year ; requiring a nursing home to implement corrective measures ; authorizing the conditional use of data provided in the questionnaire ; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene , in collaboration with the Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators , to develop the questionnaire and manual ; etc. Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to submit requests for a State Medicaid plan amendment and a Section 1115 waiver to the federal Health Care Financing Administration ; expanding eligibility under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to parents at or below a specified income subject to the limitations of federal law or waiver ; establishing the Low-Income Working Parents Health Care Program subject to the limitations of federal law or waiver ; establishing eligibility criteria for the Program ; etc. Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program for specified low-income parents under specified conditions ; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to create a Low-income Employee Private Insurance Assistance Program for specified employees ; requiring an employer under the Program to make a specified contribution to premiums or costs ; providing for the application of the Act ; requiring a report from the Maryland Health Care Commission ; etc. Resolving that the Maryland General Assembly is committed to implementing public policy that will provide affordable , quality health care coverage for all Marylanders ; resolving that the Maryland General Assembly encourages a public-private partnership in developing policies to provide health care coverage for all Marylanders ; resolving that there is a Panel on Comprehensive Health Care ; providing for the membership , duties , reimbursement , staffing , and reporting requirements of the Panel ; etc. Health Care Grant Fund in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ; making specified findings of fact ; providing for staffing of the Office ; establishing the duties of the Office ; requiring a specified annual report ; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt specified regulations ; authorizing the Secretary to award grants ; defining certain terms ; etc. Health Care Grant Fund in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ; providing for staffing and establishing the duties of the Office ; requiring the Office to provide an annual report ; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to award grants ; authorizing the Secretary to adopt regulations ; etc. Medical Practice Act the making of a specified proposed determination that a health care service is not medically necessary or appropriate for a patient ; specifying an exception for a determination made solely for an educational purpose ; etc. Including within the definition of " practice medicine " the making of a specified proposed determination that a health care service is not medically necessary or appropriate for a patient ; specifying an exception for a determination made solely for an educational purpose ; etc. Repealing a provision of the State health planning law requiring the granting of a certificate of need to establish a cardiac surgery program in the State ; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to license , on and after January 1 , 2002 , cardiac surgery programs ; providing for the issuance and renewal of licenses ; prohibiting the Department from issuing a license under specified circumstances ; requiring an applicant for a license or license renewal to meet specified conditions ; etc. Requiring a related institution to permit a resident or a resident 's legal representative to monitor the resident through use of video cameras or other electronic monitoring devices ; requiring the related institution to provide power sources and mounting space to set up electronic monitoring devices ; prohibiting a related institution from refusing to admit an individual to the related institution or removing a resident from the related institution because of a request to install an electronic monitoring device ; etc. Allowing specified individuals who have specified medical conditions to possess marijuana and related drug paraphernalia under specified circumstances ; allowing primary caregivers of qualifying patients to possess marijuana and related drug paraphernalia under specified circumstances ; providing that physicians who make specified statements are not in violations of specified laws ; prohibiting property related to the medical use of marijuana from being treated in a specified manner ; etc. Allowing persons to possess marijuana and related drug paraphernalia subject to the public local laws ; requiring a county or municipal corporation to submit to a referendum of the voters of the county or municipal corporation any enactment to allow specified persons to possess marijuana and related drug paraphernalia ; requiring the governing body and the appropriate election board or municipal election official to do those things necessary to carry out the referendum ; etc. Creating a Joint Committee on Technology ; specifying the membership of the Committee ; providing for the appointment of the cochairmen and co-vice chairmen of the Committee ; establishing that the full authorized membership of the Committee is a quorum ; providing staff for the Committee ; requiring the Committee to hold specified meetings ; authorizing the Committee to hold specified hearings ; repealing the Joint Technology Oversight Committee ; etc. Act of 2000 that require specified lottery revenues to be distributed to a special fund to increase purses at harness and thoroughbred tracks in the State ; altering a specified threshold amount used to determine when the lottery revenues are to be distributed to the special fund ; etc. Providing for the regulation of the operation of video lottery terminals by the State Lottery Commission under specified circumstances ; providing that video lottery terminals may be offered for public use in the State only by a business entity to which a video lottery facility license has been issued by the State Lottery Commission ; limiting the number of licenses to operate video lottery terminals to locations at four different regions of the State ; etc. Prohibiting additional forms or expansion of commercial gaming , including casino-style gaming , on or after January 1 , 2003 ; requiring the State Lottery Commission to regulate the operation of video lottery terminals ; providing that only a person with a video lottery facility license may offer a video lottery terminal for public use in the State ; establishing eligibility criteria and disqualifying criteria for a video lottery facility license ; etc. Providing that an individual whose driver 's license is suspended or revoked for a third alcohol - or drug-related driving offense is a habitual offender for purposes of the Ignition Interlock System Program conducted by the Motor Vehicle Administration ; and providing that an individual whose driver 's license is suspended or revoked for a third alcohol - or drug-related driving offense may not have the license reinstated unless the individual participates in the Program for at least 24 months . We are sharing our experiences on this Veterans Day , when we honor our brothers in arms , to also pay tribute to our shared connection with Americans on the home front , to the enduring power of their letters and their packages and their contributions , to the transcendent grace of their gratitude and prayers . Hire a babysitter to come to your home or , to keep the costs down , try joining with other working parents to share the costs of paying a responsible stay-at-home mother or other responsible adult to watch the children after school . I did not go because I thought I ought neither to leave home unnecessarily , to spend so much money , nor to put off the writing of the A.A.W .