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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="12-304" title_number="12" title_name="University System of Maryland" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="University of Maryland">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is an MPowering Joint Steering Council.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Council consists of members appointed by the President of the College Park Campus and the President of the Baltimore Campus.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Council shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Develop guidelines for faculty appointments that are joint between the College Park Campus and the Baltimore Campus;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Make recommendations to the presidents on joint faculty appointments;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Make recommendations to the presidents identifying competitor state peers for the University of Maryland;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Establish a process by which undergraduate and graduate programs are evaluated to determine whether the students, the University of Maryland, and the State would benefit from alignment and collaboration and make recommendations to the presidents;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Carry out the programs and policies established under the MPower program as directed by the presidents;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Explore opportunities to create registered apprenticeship programs in nursing and other fields that include integration of high school career and technology education programs and University of Maryland graduate and undergraduate programs; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Perform any other duties assigned by the presidents.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the annual State budget for the Council a General Fund appropriation in the following amounts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2021;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$4,000,000 in fiscal year 2022;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$6,000,000 in fiscal year 2023;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>$8,000,000 in fiscal year 2024; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>$10,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the annual State budget for the University of Maryland Baltimore County, to further its mission as a research university and to complement the economic development and research activities of the MPowering Joint Steering Council, a General Fund appropriation in the following amounts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$400,000 in fiscal year 2021;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$800,000 in fiscal year 2022;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$1,200,000 in fiscal year 2023;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>$1,600,000 in fiscal year 2024; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>$2,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the annual State budget for the Council to use exclusively on the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing a General Fund appropriation in the following amounts:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$1,500,000 in fiscal year 2026;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$3,000,000 in fiscal year 2027;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$4,500,000 in fiscal year 2028; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>$6,000,000 in fiscal year 2029 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The money appropriated under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection is supplemental to and may not take the place of funding that otherwise would be appropriated for the Council or the University of Maryland Baltimore County.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
