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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Education - Juvenile Services Education Programs - Management and Operation [HB-1607]
Establishing the Juvenile Services Education County Pilot Program to pilot a management model where a juvenile services education program at a facility located in a county is operated by the county board of education; requiring the Program to begin in the 2019-2020 school year; requiring the State Department of Education to identify one juvenile services education program to participate in the Program; requiring a certain workgroup to make recommendations on the management and operation of juvenile services education programs; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrienne Jones
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 565 on 05/08/2018
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Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council [HB-1524]
Establishing the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Council; prohibiting a member of the Council from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; specifying the duties of the Council; authorizing the Council to request certain technical assistance; requiring the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; terminating the Act after June 30, 2021; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/09/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Social Services – Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program [HB-1494]
Establishing the Safe Harbor Child Trafficking Victim Service Pilot Program; providing for the purpose of the pilot program; requiring the local departments of social services in Baltimore and Washington counties to implement the pilot program; requiring certain local departments of social services to refer certain children to the Regional Child Trafficking Advocate within a 24 hours of identification; requiring the Secretary of State, after consultation with certain entities, to appoint certain Advocates; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/17/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System [HB-1244]
Establishing a Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to determine whether to create an independent school board for the Juvenile Services Education System and identify ways to reform and improve juvenile education services; requiring the Workgroup to convene on or before September 1, 2018; requiring the Workgroup to submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly in a certain format by December 20, 2019; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary; Withdrawn on 03/12/2018
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juvenile Services Education Program - Employees - Employment Contracts and Leave [SB-75]
Prohibiting certain employees of the Juvenile Services Education Program from rescinding an employment contract after July 15 except under certain circumstances; authorizing the State Department of Education to suspend the professional certificate of a certain employee of the Program for 1 year; requiring certain employees at certain institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Juvenile Services to be employed or contracted to provide certain services for a period not to exceed 10 months; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
First Reading Finance on 01/09/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
State and Local Government - Correctional Units - Detention Agreements and Contracting for Privatization of Facilities [SB-742]
Prohibiting a correctional unit, with certain exceptions, from contracting with a private contractor or vendor for the ownership, operation, or management of State and local correctional and detention facilities; prohibiting a correctional unit from being reimbursed in an amount greater than a certain per diem rate under a certain detention agreement for the detention of certain persons; defining certain terms; making technical changes; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Pinsky
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/13/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Membership - Department of Juvenile Services State Advisory Board [SB-72]
Expanding the membership of the State Advisory Board for the Department of Juvenile Services; and requiring certain members appointed to the Board from the general public to meet certain requirements to include one that shall be a victim advocate.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 270 on 04/30/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Government Agents - Requests for and Use of Immigration Status Information [SB-718]
Prohibiting, except under certain circumstances, a government agent from requesting information about immigration or citizenship status of a person or a person's family members or acquaintances; prohibiting a government agent from coercing information or action from a person by using certain information; authorizing a person to use a certain legal remedy and recover court costs and reasonable attorney's fees under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Hearing Canceled on 02/11/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Intake Procedures [SB-71]
Extending the period of time, from within 25 days to within 30 days of receiving a complaint, during which a juvenile intake officer, in considering a certain complaint involving a child, is required to make a certain inquiry and is authorized to take certain actions; extending the period of time to not later than 30 days during which an intake officer is required to discuss with the child and the child's parent or guardian information regarding a referral for a mental health or substance abuse screening of the child; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/15/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juvenile Law – Sex Trafficking – Immunity, Services, and Investigations [SB-688]
Requiring a law enforcement officer who has reason to believe that a certain child is a victim of sex trafficking to notify a certain regional navigator; declaring the intent of the General Assembly that a minor who is reasonably believed to have engaged in prostitution be treated as a victim of sexual abuse and have access to immediate child-centered and trauma-informed services; providing certain immunity for a minor who engages in certain prostitution-related conduct; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/07 At 12:00 P.m. on 02/06/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Informal Adjustment [SB-401]
Authorizing a certain court to refer a certain matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a certain informal adjustment if it is in the best interests of the public and the child; and requiring a certain petition to be dismissed if a certain informal adjustment is successfully completed.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Carter
Hearing Canceled on 02/04/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System [SB-221]
Providing for a Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to determine whether the General Assembly should create an independent school board for the Juvenile Services Education System and identify ways to reform and improve juvenile education services; requiring the Department of Juvenile Services and the State Department of Education to staff the Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 20, 2020; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing Canceled (judiciary) on 03/20/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juveniles - Reportable Offenses [SB-13]
Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services, for students committed to its custody, to notify a local superintendent of schools or school principal of a student's reportable offense or offense related to the student's membership in a criminal gang; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations to ensure that certain information is used to provide appropriate educational programming and services for the social, emotional, and academic development of the student and to maintain a safe and secure school environment; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Andrew Serafini
Hearing Canceled on 03/20/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Education - Public School Attendance - Homeless Children [SB-127]
Repealing a provision of law requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a child awaiting foster care placement not subject to certain educational stability provisions of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to attend school in the county even if the child is not currently domiciled in that county; and updating certain provisions of law to include references to the educational stability provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Simonaire
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 467 on 05/13/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2019 [SB-1040]
Authorizing or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; altering the cap for fiscal 2020 from 0.5% to 0.25% on a certain adjustment to a certain revenue estimate relating to nonwithholding income tax revenues; altering, for fiscal year 2020, a certain budgeted Medicaid Deficit Assessment; authorizing the transfer of certain funds; authorizing the use of $2,000,000 from the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund for Medicaid provider reimbursements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Hearing 3/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/06/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
State Department of Education - School Discipline - Data Collection [HB-950]
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Maryland Report Card; requiring the Department to provide discipline-related data to the public in an accessible electronic spreadsheet format; requiring the Department to lower a risk ratio used to identify a school as high suspending from 3.0 to 2.0; requiring the Department to report disproportionality data about high-suspending schools; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/12/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juveniles - Reportable Offenses [HB-867]
Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to notify a certain local superintendent of schools or school principal of a certain student's arrest for a reportable offense or an offense related to a certain student's membership in a certain gang; requiring the Department to provide certain educational programming information to a certain student; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading Judiciary on 02/08/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Child Abuse and Neglect – Sex Trafficking – Services and Investigations (Child Sex Trafficking Screening and Services Act of 2019) [HB-827]
Requiring a law enforcement officer who suspects that a child that has been detained is a victim of sex trafficking to notify a regional navigator; requiring a local department of social services that receives a report of suspected child abuse or neglect to refer the child to a regional navigator for services; establishing the Safe Harbor Regional Navigator Grant Program to support services for youth victims of sex trafficking; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to provide funding by October 1, 2019; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Chang
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 559 on 05/13/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Maryland Longitudinal Data System - Student Data and Governing Board [HB-704]
Altering the definition of "student data" for purposes of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System to include juvenile delinquency and elementary and secondary school disciplinary records; adding the Department of Juvenile Services to the entities required to provide data to the Maryland Longitudinal Data System; adding the Secretary of Juvenile Services or the Secretary's designee to the Governing Board of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 688 on 05/25/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Juvenile Justice Reform Council [HB-606]
Establishing the Juvenile Justice Reform Council; requiring the Council, using a data-driven approach, to develop a statewide framework of policies to invest in strategies to increase public safety and reduce recidivism of youth offenders; requiring the Council to submit an interim report by December 1, 2019, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2020; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Clippinger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 253 on 04/30/2019