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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1011" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The inventory shall specify the amount of county funds that are being spent on each of the programs included in the inventory.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
