(a) (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) 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) 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) 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.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Title 13 - Miscellaneous Health Care Programs
Subtitle 10 - Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program
Section 13-1002 - Established; Purpose; Components; Funding; Annual Report
Section 13-1003 - Surveillance and Evaluation Component
Section 13-1004 - Biennial Tobacco Study
Section 13-1005 - Statewide Public Health Component
Section 13-1006 - Local Public Health Component
Section 13-1007 - Local Public Health Tobacco Grant -- County Goals; Formula
Section 13-1009 - Local Public Health Tobacco Grant -- Joint Applications
Section 13-1010 - Local Public Health Tobacco Grant -- Community Health Coalition
Section 13-1012 - Local Public Health Tobacco Grant -- Review of Comprehensive Plan
Section 13-1013 - Counter-Marketing and Media Component
Section 13-1014 - Administrative Component
Section 13-1015 - Annual Appropriations to Fund Activities to Reduce Tobacco Use