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


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  •    (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.


HISTORY: 2000, chs. 17, 18.